Lately I've had sites that were operator-less (user knew enough or didn't know enough but was running it anyway) and as a result the users were not in Jabber or relied on the Venue Client Chat (which will sometimes lag or not respond occasionally or even worse, we're in different venues or something wrong so we can't chat anyway during troubleshooting).
If you are setting up your users to run your AG themselves, please get them setup with Jabber and impress on them they should use it to communicate about the setup. Not to mention that they should show up early to do that audio check, etc. PRIOR to the meeting. So, I'm getting more and more requests by users that want to run the AG at their desktop or run it themselves. I'll be curious to know if this is the case at other sites. -John Q. -- John I. Quebedeaux, Jr. Louisiana State University Computer Manager / LBRN & CCT / 131 Life Sciences Bldg. & 339 Johnston Hall e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] / web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu & http://cct.lsu.edu phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597 On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote: > Hear, hear! :) > > Tom is speaking from hard-earned experience. > > There's an AGDP doc that may be of interest to those who haven't used > the jabber chat tool before: > > http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/howto/use-text-channel.html > > It's recommended that people use a jabber chat room with the name > corresponding to the name of the virtual venue (ie, if you're in the > Axon virtual venue, use the Axon jabber chat room). And it never hurts > to drop into the jabber meadow -- people often go there if they're > confused about what to do. > > - Jennifer > > Tom Coffin wrote: >> hi folks >> Just a reminder... when participating in AccessGrid >> meetings people should consider a couple of things >> 1) the background chat - the Jabber is "key" for troubleshooting >> and just basically coordinating node op activities before >> and during a session - plus it can be fun! >> 2) testing - It's very important to test your connection >> into the AG session prior to the meeting starting - I have >> found that it takes at least 15 minutes for all the sites >> to get settled with the correct audio levels etc... and >> if there are network issues it can sometimes takes longer. >> ___________________________________________________________ >> Tom Coffin .......................... [email protected] >> NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 >> 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 >> Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 >> _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin >
