Re: web conferencing for showing demonstrations or presenting information

Well, for what it's worth, I can connect to the test meeting fine on  
Mac OS X, using Minefield (our FF3 nightly builds) or straight FF2.   
And IBM's web meetings, while cantankerous at times, always basically  
got the job done, if I remember correctly.

Thanks for looking into it Tim.

Cheers,

J

On 11-Sep-07, at 10:12 AM, Timothy Hahn wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I know that this group has discussed in the past the possibility of  
> using some type of web conferencing software in order to share  
> presentations or show demonstrations during our weekly conference  
> calls/IRC chats.
>
> One of the challenges, it seems, is to be able to do this across  
> the widely diverse set of platforms we are all using (Windows, Mac,  
> Linux).
>
> IBM happens to have a web conferencing site which might provide  
> some capabilities that would be useful to the group.  Meetings have  
> to be scheduled by an IBM employee, but are able to be used by  
> people outside of IBM.  Attendees to the web conference are able to  
> share their screens and collaborate on a "whiteboard".
>
> Not all browsers and not all system types are listed as supported.   
> But I have used this from my Linux system and have seen it work  
> from a Windows system.
>
> If you are interested in learning more - here are some links:
>
>   + If this is your first IBM Web Conference, attend the special  
> "test"
>     meeting to make sure that you can join easily.  Please visit
>     http://www.ibm.com/collaboration/webconferences/center/ 
> meetingwizard.jsp
>     and click "Attend a test meeting"
>   + Help is available at
>     http://www.ibm.com/collaboration/webconference/help/index.html
>   + Leave the meeting or close your browser at the end of the meeting.
>
> Note - the help text on the pages above takes on a whole new  
> significance when considered in relation to the goals of our group  
> (examples: "turn off pop-up blockers" and "accept security warnings  
> if you want to attend the conference")
>
> I invite discussion on the possibility of using this web  
> conferencing tool as a means of sharing screens for demonstration  
> purposes during selected working group meetings/calls.
>
> Regards,
> Tim Hahn
> IBM Distinguished Engineer
>
> Internet: hahnt@us.ibm.com
> Internal: Timothy Hahn/Durham/IBM@IBMUS
> phone: 919.224.1565     tie-line: 8/687.1565
> fax: 919.224.2530

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