Webinar. What Webinar?

Given that Raspberry Pi is an open-source beastie, I'd suggest a more open webinar system perhaps. I don't have anything in particular in mind. My Linux browsers complained about the Java (sending me to Oracle to resolve the issue), and complained about the audio.  Oracle Java has licensing issues, and my audio works fine over the web with just about everything else I've tried...

Message was edited by: Kevin Cole

Message was edited by: Kevin Cole

I joined the webinar in plenty of time (almost half an hour in advance) but the webinar software seems distinctly flaky.  It complained I didn't have audio (untrue), and refused to show me anything other than a list of the speakers.  I tried dialling in to the 0800 number given, but although that got me audio it wasn't a lot of use without the pictures.

Altogether a pretty naff software solution.  Please don't use it again.

John

Unfortunately I didn't make it to the live showing (2 a.m my time), however I'm suprised about the reports of Webex failing. Webex are owned by Cisco and I have used it in another life for demonstrating medical pathology slides (2TB images) to researchers amd medical staff world wide - it always performed OK apart from the one hospital that was still on dial up and a weird exchange system.

What is confusing if Webex someone hasn't used Webex before is that it isn't always apparent which page you should be looking at and how if you've clicked on the list of participants by mistake how to get back to the actual event.

I have both Firefox and 11.0 and IE9 installed, and Webex does seem to work better with IE with those versions. There is also a Webex Player that some events require which can be downloaded and installed.

Although it's generalizing, all proprietary systems are doomed to be flakey, non-portable, and permanently giving people headaches.

Webex is a good example of this.  And, given Cisco's litigation-based "business plan" for Webex, it's not going to get any better in the future.  I would tend to recommend to Element 14 that they stick to open standards, even if it means a reduction in bullet points.  At least open standards reduce the headaches at the same time.

Although it's generalizing, all proprietary systems are doomed to be flakey, non-portable, and permanently giving people headaches.

Webex is a good example of this.  And, given Cisco's litigation-based "business plan" for Webex, it's not going to get any better in the future.  I would tend to recommend to Element 14 that they stick to open standards, even if it means a reduction in bullet points.  At least open standards reduce the headaches at the same time.