Re: POLL: enhancing the mute functionality

2009-05-20 Thread Roberto Torresani
Hi all! in my opinion in a meeting room all the partecipants should be with audio on. The moderator could mute one or more of them. Usually the moderator is a expert in openmeetings and he could mute a user with problem with the mic (or configuration). Everyone must have a button to disable his

Re: POLL: enhancing the mute functionality

2009-05-19 Thread Sebastian Wagner
hi, I think option 3 is great, but I would prefer that you can set an option *enable by default*. So that each participant that enters has the mic enabled by default. So the default setting of a meeting-room should be, that everybody can speak at the same time and the moderator can turn it off.

Re: POLL: enhancing the mute functionality

2009-05-19 Thread pankaj anand
hi folks, the 3rd option is really gud.. this is something like that dimdim virtual classroom is doing. Only the moderator or the teacher can speak when the classrooms starts. but the other users can apply to speak. the moderator can grant them the permission. with regards Pankaj anand. On

Re: POLL: enhancing the mute functionality

2009-05-19 Thread Evgeny Rovinsky
Sebastian, Pankaj, thank you for your responses. Concerning the choice between mute or disable audio. In my intention, the principal difference between classroom and room with limited list of speakers is following. In the latter everyone can ask to speak at any time. (It's a scenario of some

Re: POLL: enhancing the mute functionality

2009-05-19 Thread Sebastian Wagner
just to make sure: classroom = disable/enable (cause actually here we have 10-500 possible participants = it won't be possible to *mute* every participant cause then you have separated 500 audio-streams) meeting-room = mute (cause here you have not so many participants so that it makes sense that

Re: POLL: enhancing the mute functionality

2009-05-19 Thread Alexei Fedotov
Let me share some ideas from the user perspective. I cannot see how implement them easily though in our architecture. Well, there is a use case when listeners start asking questions. I think there should be a sort of an easy runtime (conference-time) switch between event and conference modes.