There are many factors for a video event, web seminar, webinar... etc. How many attendees? How many speakers? Do you want breakout rooms? Do you want to save the chat? Do you want whiteboards? Is there a time limit? The list goes on. and on.
And the choice can make or break the event. Having 20% of your attendees unable to login cleanly is a bit of a pain. Having people randomly kicked off is a pain... Etc. I have done some effort to understand what was possible, given that I do many video meetings at this point. You might find some of the resources in this list a bit helpful. But incomplete. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bTln9HkT3muy9pck3v8McElhhUjTECbs6V1z37WuGaY/edit#gid=0 If you want to start with a small group, don't care about most of the features, but are totally committed to open source, then look at https://jitsi.org/ But take a look at the list of choices available to you (about two years old on the data) On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 4:13 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2023, King Beowulf wrote: > > > Depending on your needs a "web seminar" may be a limiting search term. > > Ed, > > I thought that `webinar` was a standard name. > > > Maybe "web conference" is better. > > That's a synonym and the software descriptions on sourceforge use that > term. > > > I assume you are looking to transmit a live presentation a la a live > > meeting / presentation / talk such as CES or Pittcon or Comicon but on > the > > so-called "web". > > Not familiar with those, but attended seminars in grad schools and > presented > some when on university faculty. > > > Need both live video/voice and/or live text chat for Q&A? > > I presume so. > > > How many attendees? > > I've no idea. But, since there are no free, open source offerings and I > have > no idea whether a time and money investment would produce a positive ROI, > I've dropped the idea and will use podcasts and video tutorials instead. > They're one-way, but interested folks could contact me outside of the > audio/video presentations. > > Thanks, > > Rich > > -- -- [image: www.seattleangelconference.com] <http://www.seattleangelconference.com/> *JOHN SECHREST* *Founder, *Seattle Angel Conference TEL (541) 250-0844 EMAIL [email protected] Schedule A Meeting <http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com/> http://seattleangelconference.com @nwangelconf An Investor driven event bringing together new investors and new entrepreneurs to expand the startup ecosystem.
