Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-27 Thread Charles Jones
I installed and tested out Google Openmeetings today. It does work, but not near as slick as other browser based collaboration tools like WebEx, MeetingPlace, etc. But those other ones are not free either :) It feels very beta-ish, and some of the UI is a bit confusing. One of my testers immed

RE: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Bryan O'Neal
until you pay so there is no risk. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:06 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Cross-platform virtual meetings My

Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Joe 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. I pitched something like this for the Cen

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread 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

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Andrew "Tuna" Harris
Excerpts from plug's message of Mon Mar 23 12:11:11 -0700 2009: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:38 AM, 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 pr

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
Some things that I have tried that work cross platform, mostly because they run in a browser: ustream - http://www.ustream.tv - works well for one-to-many broadcasting mebeam - http://www.mebeam.com - multipoint conferencing stickam - http://www.stickam.com - multipoint conferencing Ed wrote:

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Ed
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Joe 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 fo

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Ed
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:38 AM, 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. > Joe -

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Joe
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 p

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Judd Pickell
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 wrote: > My company is in the

Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Joe
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,