Bonjour, In my institution we use AG mostly for meetings or seminars . Also "in France" we set up an informal group of AG users (for basic help and best practices...) where we have "scientific users" but also "artist users"... and many questions about the software.
First of all, are "vic" and "rat" state of the art applications ? or can we think of other (better) clients that can be embedded in AG, especially people who play with sound are not satisfied with rat, they rather use things like "Pura Data" (which is multimedia). We do not know if there has been attempts (or event if it is conceivable) to create a Pure Data plugin. Second is the need to perform some kind of "asymmetric operation" during an AG session: if you retransmit a seminar or some artistic performance, you need to control what remote participants can see and hear. With the normal vic and rat usage they also see and potentially hear all the other participants. Third.. another thing that has been discussed in the list is the AG Portlet which we find very useful for newcommers or occasional users as they do not need to install a client and discuss with the network people to open ports etc. in the firewall. The PAG project is no longer active and the current distribution is outdated (old version of client ?, no support for 64 bit ?...) we were able to use it some time ago through JetSpeed or Liferay... At last there is the iPV6 issue. I know there have been also some discussions recently on the list. In fact when you want to deploy some new software you're always asked whether it is iPV6 Complient or not ... I understand also that most people will have direct access to iPv6 multicast which is seldom the case with iPV4. We will probably be able to find some ressources for (limited) software development around AG (like new plug'ins, ..) and are particularly interested in the two first points (but third too). So this is the purpose of this message: what do you think about our needs -and future of AG- ? are there other ideas or may be already ongoing projects we do not know about ? opportunities to cooperate ? Bien cordialement Philippe d'Anfray
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