[AG-TECH] Is the Lobby active or inactive?

[Ivan R. Judson]

Here Here, Let's pack the lobby!

--Ivan

PS -- I agree, we should push for more video, not less -- this is a media
rich collaboration after all :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Christoph Willing
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:29 PM
> To: AG-TECH list at ANL
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Is the Lobby active or inactive?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 05:10, Randy Groves wrote:
> > With the advent of the new venue server and clients, I'm wondering 
> > what the
> > function of the 'Lobby' should be - if, in fact, it needs 
> to exist - at 
> > least as a place where audio and video are active.  Until 
> such time as the 
> > network services exist to throttle the communications, 
> entering the venue 
> > could be problematic if you are using a low-bandwidth 
> client, and you are 
> > suddenly bombarded with the streams from all the people who 
> are 'parked' in 
> > the lobby.
> > 
> > Though it hasn't undergone real extensive testing (and 
> probably won't 
> > now
> > that 2.0 is out and looking good), my 1.x venue server 
> doesn't have ANY 
> > streams in the lobby.  This gives folks a way to 'stop and 
> catch their 
> > breath' before plunging into the fray.
> > 
> > I'm interested in people's thoughts on this.  Of course, since it 
> > isn't
> > presently possible to configure a room with NO streams 
> allocated, the point 
> > is somewhat moot.  But that's how I see us using the lobby.
> > 
> 
> 
> We've found a lot of good use for the ANL Lobby with lots of 
> nodes parked there. After we built our first node and were 
> trying to convince others (builders and funders) to do 
> likewise, it was good to be able to log into a single room 
> and show people a large sample of existing users.
> 
> The prospect of collaborating with researchers all over the 
> world was immediately demonstrated by seeing so many video 
> streams from the Americas and Europe. Of course the timezone 
> difference meant many of those video streams were just black, 
> since it was night over there during our daylight hours. Way 
> back then, there were no other nodes in this timezone so we 
> couldn't really ask nodes elswhere to be active for quick 
> demos during their night time.
> 
> Even though there are now many nodes in this region, the ANL 
> Lobby is still handy for demonstrating the world wide scale 
> of the AG. Its a bit of a shame that fewer nodes are parked 
> there these days.
> 
> chris
> 
> 
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