Re: Wikipathways presentation: Google Hangout - 10 participant limit

You can use Hangouts On Air to broadcast live on YouTube and allow
view-only participation from more than 10 people.  I've seen IRC or another
back channel used to ask questions and post comments by the view-only
participants in this configuration.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-hangouts-on-air-broadcast-your.html

Tom


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:35 AM, M. Scott Marshall
<mscottmarshall@gmail.com>wrote:

> My apologies to all who wanted to attend the SPARQL for Wikipathways
> presentation. Apparently, Google Hangout has a hard limit of 10
> participants (even when it isn't 10 video channels). Also, when I sent the
> invitation to the mailing list from Google Hangout, I didn't realize that
> it would be blocked (probably was sent from Google instead of my e-mail
> address).
>
> I'm afraid that I hadn't checked with Andra (the presenter) whether it
> would be ok and so didn't select the "air" option for a youtube recording
> this time. If there is a next time, I will clear that ahead of time.
>
> Andra - if you get a chance to make a short screen recording, I think
> there are lots of folks interested (could come in handy for SWAT4LS too).
> I'm attaching Andra's presentation slides.
>
> We keep fishing around for screen sharing software that works on all
> platforms. I guess Google Hangout won't be useful for anything but small
> meetings unless we can get support for 15-20 participants
>
> Other options for the future that we discussed at the end of the meeting
> were: WebEx (through MIT), GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar (through IO
> Informatics). Andra had suggested http://join.me but I couldn't find a
> mention of Linux support on their web page.
>
> Last year, we occasionally used Big Blue Button (open source) on Michel
> Dumontier's server that I think handled all platforms reasonably well.
>
> Suggested criteria for screen sharing programs:
> * All platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac, (Android, iPad)
> * All major browsers
> * quick link to meeting
> * quick, small install of plugin
> * ability to record
> * ability to chat and log chat (could not recover the chat from our Google
> Hangout yesterday!)
>
> -Scott
>
> P.S. If you are going to the SWAT4LS hackathon or tutorial in Paris on
> Nov. 28-30, you will have another opportunity to learn more about SPARQL
> and Wikipathways from Andra Waagmeester there.
>
> --
> M. Scott Marshall, PhD
> MAASTRO clinic, http://www.maastro.nl/en/1/
> http://eurecaproject.eu/
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/114642613065018821852/posts
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>