First I'd like to say that the experience was certainly improved from meetings past! I do have a couple suggestions for improving things even further as well.
1) Turn off the camera [option?] when not needed. Staring the entire time at the green camera on light, and the live video window with the "not being published" text, I kept wishing I could turn the "big brother" camera off until it was needed. 2) Perhaps an "I see you" indicator by the chair and/or some form of ability to draw attention to the remote queue, beyond just queuing up. Not sure best way to to do this, perhaps a small "mutable" flash or beep option on the meetecho controller view, or maybe better a small person at a mic graphic overlay on the bottom corner of the presentation (i.e., like the cable TV logos)? There were at least a couple different WGs where I queued up and the chairs unintentionally took a very long time to notice. On the other hand I believe the chairs or the presenter, would not have failed to notice someone standing at the mic. It was obvious they were not intentionally doing this given that when they did notice they "called" on me, asking the presenter to pause during their presentation. This was one example where I definitely felt the remoteness compared to being there in person. In person if I hadn't been called by the presenter or chairs after during the appropriate time, I would have sat back down. Remotely I felt frustrated as the appropriate time to ask my clarifying question passed on by... 3) Slop time. Please allow for logging into the room before the actual start time, as well as staying after. 4) Not having to sign the blue sheets at every entry to the group. More than once I had to quit my browser and rejoin (or close the tab and rejoin, etc), I noticed other people mentioning doing similar in the chat rooms. It would be very nice not to be asked to sign the virtual blue sheets each time I had to do this. If I already signed the blue sheet for that room and I clicked "remember me" then it shouldn't ask me to fill anything out again (name, reg number, note well click) just take be back to the room. 5) Switch from participant to observer. It seems like one could go the other direction, but not return. My want for this feature though may be mostly be driven by the want for #1 above. :) 6) Swap presentation and speaker video. Many times near the start of a presentation I wanted to get a good look at the speaker then switch back to the presentation. An option to swap the views would have worked nicely for this. Thanks again! Chris. _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet
