[tei-council] webex meeting next week

[Lou]

Laurent and I just did a little experiment using the webex conference 
system and can report that it seems to work fine, though you may need to 
do some tweaking. Please read the following notes...

1. You need a GOOD NETWORK CONNEXION -- connexion via the phone works 
but can be very noisy. connexion via a flakey network connexion (e.g. 
Laurent's wifi) is OK but bursty,

2. In the "meeting center" window you'll see at top left a number of 
drop down menus. Under "Audio" you can select "Volume" to adjust the 
playback/mike levels. I found that I needed to tweak these to be heard.

3. On the same menu, if you select "Audio conference" you can toggle 
between phone and network connexions (but see 1 above)

4. You need a headset plugged into your computer. For extra bonus 
points, you also need a webcam, but it's not essential.

5. Apart from that, you just need a modern web browser. Laurent and I 
communicated successfully using Thunderbird under Ubuntu (me) and Safari 
on a mac (him).

6. There are lots of fun toys (chat, whiteboard, polling, etc.) in 
addition to the basic audio but we should probably try to resist the 
temptation to use them too much.

Anyone who wants to try out the system in advance of the call next 
Monday -- send me an email (but note that I'm in a ftf meeting most of 
tomorrow)