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The initial offer from Philippe Galvez for Fermi would be ballpark $10k for an annual subscription, based on our usage from last year which was about 1100 meetings. Richard would like to compare that to WebEx or GoToMeeting. Alternatively if you buy as you go, the person setting up the meeting is designated the "moderator" and is responsible to pay for the meeting in "SeeVogh" credits. 30 60 minutes is the minimum meeting time. Right now 1 hour is 54 credits. Once the meeting has started, you cannot be refunded, even if you do not use up the full allotted time. This wouldn't be an issue if we had a subscription.
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Anders did comment that Richard's audio was particularly clear and strong. Later on during the meeting, we did note that Richard's audio started to fade in and out. Typically it was when Richard would start speaking again, and then after a sentence or so the audio would pick up. It did not seem due to changes in his personal volume.
The default for audio and video seems to come up with the microphone un-muted and video on - it would be better to do the opposite. Similarly public chat should be on by default as well as the participants list.
Video is also on by default. The video window is shared so as more participants enter, each tile associate with each participant is given a smaller piece of the pie. Richard wondered how it would appear if there were 100 participants. (Actually he wondered what would happen with the participant list on the side for a large meeting.)
We tried out the "desktop share" by having Richard share his desktop and that seemed fine.
Under Menu->About there is a "Copy Log" button, it would be nice to locate this in a more prominant location under Menu. The ability to directly email the SeeVogh support team seemed to be missing; maybe the red cross button to just send the log.
The moderator controls the ending of a meeting - if we run over an hour, does the moderator get prompted to add additional time?
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Does leaving a meeting mean you have to exit the application entirely? Sometimes it is nice to be able to hop into another meeting straightaway.
Is there a capability to browse available meetings? Is there a password capability to prevent anyone browsing the meetings from joining?
Will there be the concept of a Fermi "Community" that our group can join? Will that change the meeting booking behavior - e.g. to allowance recurrence, perhaps no moderator needed to start/stop the meeting.
Does the moderator have control over attendees? Mute, eject etc?
Question and Answer Time Between Richard and Philippe Galvez May 7,2012
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