Cross-platform virtual meetings

[Joe]

Adobe's Connect Pro is CRAZY expensive, so we're not likely to use it.

Using icecast is an interesting idea. I wasn't aware that icecast
handled video, it's been a while since I've played with it. I'm not sure
how easy it would be for our marketing dept. to set up though.

Coccinella looks pretty cool, but we need something that does more than
a whiteboard. The idea was to use this both for internal conferences
(they're in Chicago, so I need an easy way to demo things with them) and
for external sales efforts (seminars and presentations to clients around
the world). Openmeetings looks like it has both voice and screencast
modules. The only downfall being that the client has to install the
application, but it may not be that big of a deal.

Thanks for the feedback. Openmeetings looks really cool, assuming it
works well.

-Joe

Ed wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:
>> Thanks for that, I had no idea Adobe had anything like this. The only
>> downfall is it's limited to 15 participants at a time. Their Connect Pro
>> solution might work though, I don't see anything about a participant
>> limit. They don't have pricing for that online though, which leads me to
>> believe it's pretty expensive. Still, thanks, we'll check that out!
>>
>> -Joe
>>
> 
> Joe -
> If you get more than a few folks into a meeting you want broadcast not
> conference ware - icecast will broadcast audio & video, good for a
> group that doesnt need to interact in channel. Pair icecast with an
> Asterisk VoIP conference for audio feeedback and you should be able to
> handle a good size group.
> Ed
> 
>> Judd Pickell wrote:
>>> This works on macs, windows and linux:
>>> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect/ but not entirely sure if it is
>>> everything you are looking for. There is also a pro version which may offer
>>> more features that would be useful.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My company is in the process of trying to set up virtual meetings,
>>>> including things like screencasting/sharing, voice, video, whiteboard,
>>>> etc. The office is all Mac, our clients are mostly Windows, and I'm on
>>>> Linux. We've been trying to find something that will work for everyone
>>>> and is easy to use, but so far haven't come up with much. Webex seems to
>>>> work, but I can't get screen or document sharing to work from Linux, and
>>>> it also lacks voice. Most of the others either didn't run at all or
>>>> don't have any Linux client.
>>>>
>>>> Recently I set up a VNC server on my machine and used our VPN to
>>>> broadcast back to the office and Skype to handle the audio. It worked,
>>>> but not well, and it's definitely not something that we can use with our
>>>> clients.
>>>>
>>>> So, fellow Linux users, got any other suggestions for what I should be
>>>> using? I'd settle for something that didn't have voice if everything
>>>> else worked really well, but of course, I'd like to have everything in
>>>> one package.
>>>>
>>>> -Joe
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