All who are interested / wanted to follow the meeting, our meeting was moved to a different venue, and the only streaming we were able to run LYNC, which is a Microsoft tool. This won't work for people on Linux unfortunately.
We probably can't do anything about this tomorrow (especially as the wifi is somewhat limiting at the venue), but we will upload all the sessions as mp4s or similar, so at least you will be able to listen to the meeting proceedings.
We are also live updating the wiki pages for each agenda item, with notes from the floor and presentations.
In the future, we clearly need to be better prepared with a streaming solution supported by all platforms, with live chat input. Suggestions on this topic could be made on the technical list.
It didn’t work on Linux, though the opening screen was confusing. It wouldn’t work, it said, but still it invited to fill in my name. I did, and it didn’t work.
Just for fun, I looked at the supported platforms, first the 128 versions of Windows, and in the end was “Macintosh”. I never heard about that OS. But Linux was not on the list. You can see which platform they hate most. It is because. reason we all know. Microsoft hates “open”. It hates interoperability.
But in the meantime, my whole Eco-system is running on Linux, my databases, my Tomcat, my Eclipse, my Oxygen, my github, my five consoles which remember the git-commands I do ten times a day. Everything stable and fine.
I cannot go to another platform to watch a meeting. I am really sorry for that.
Suggestions about what to use? I guess you considered Google. I used it a few times. Or Skype, works also fine.
I hope someone has an idea. But, please, never again Mixrosoft, that is asking for trouble.
DIPS, who provided the meeting venue and catering had to change the location a few days earlier to one outside of their offices, in a town called Lillestrom, near Oslo. So we were in a culture centre with its own wifi etc, not under DIPS control, and the best we could manage collectively was using their office Lync from one of their computers. We also had no real control over mics and sound. We didn't do Skype because we wanted video as well.
In the future we will need to use something that works universally, and be more prepared. Two suggestions I had from people were:
Roger Erens: Ericom Cloud Internet Explorer for Chrome could be of use on Mac or Linux.
Jussara: vydio app
I don't know much about this technology, so if someone has a proposal for the next meeting, let us know. My preference for how it should work is how HL7 Brazil does its online courses - they use some Adobe platform, and broadcast is voice + slides and/or webcam, moderators have voice and video, and the main audience asks questions and comments via a chat panel. It's all integrated. This costs money obviously, but functionally I think it's very good.
Anyway, we're doing our best to get all the outcomes documented, and we may yet get the recorded files up online.
It sounds that HL7 Brazil uses Adobe Connect, http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html . It is at least the software the universities in Sweden uses for online meetings and some online teaching and I think that it works quite well.