Meeting this Thursday

[Louis Mamakos]

I’ve done a number of Google Hangouts, at least the version that’s
called “Google Hangouts on the Air” which is connected to YouTube
for broadcasting to large numbers of receive-only participants.  The
usual Google Hangouts is good for 8 or 10 video participants using
just a browser-based extension.

FYI, I participate in the “Virtual Star Party” that’s held on
Sunday evenings.  It’s an educational program to share astronomy 
with people and loads of fun.  I try to participate  when the
weather permits.  Here’s one a couple of the archived broadcasts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-h2zWAoMk8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iu9l9Iynwo

Note that the first one has 10 participants (plus the interconnect
to YouTube).  I think that 10 was the max, at least a year ago.
Perhaps that’s improved since then..

The Google Hangouts thing actually works really well, especially
compared to various commercial video conferencing systems that I’ve
had to suffer over the years.  It’s worth giving it a try, and
useful to do a dry-run to debug stuff.

louie
wa3ymh



On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> wrote:

> so how about we try doing a Google Gaggle (or whatever they
> call their multiparty video hang-out) ? if there's only one
> video source and the rest is multiparty audio, i think they
> can do pretty large groups.  anyway, it would be an 
> interesting capability to develop.  
> 
> sorta like them round-table things they do on 75 meters,
> except without the tinfoil hats.
> 
> Skype does multiparty video as well - it might cost some
> money but i'd throw in some bucks for an experiment.
> 
>      -mo
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