AT-LARGE GATEWAY
At-Large Regional Policy Engagement Program (ARPEP)
At-Large Review Implementation Plan Development
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in a virtual meeting room over the Internet.
Adobe Connect
ICANN and the At-Large community primarily uses the Adobe Connect solution (http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html) to do its web conferencing. Using this tool effectively is important to anyone wanting to participate in At-Large Working Groups and your Regional At-Large Organisations (RALO) conference calls.
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The TTF is researching plugins for Adobe Connect to further enhance/improve the benefits of conference calls for At-Large.
LUCID Meetings
Alternative Web Conferencing Options
The TTF explored a variety of conferencing solutions when ICANN appeared to be switching to LucidMeetingsThe TTF has held several meetings with LucidMeetings (http://www.lucidmeetings.com/), a cloud based conferencing solution , since its use was being used internally at ICANNin mid 2013. The TTF has held several meetings with LucidMeetings The TTF used LUCID for its WG calls from late 2013 to mid 2014, before returning to Adobe Connect.
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Several TTF members has mentioned other tools for consideration for use by At-Large Structures and/or for use by At-Large WGs. Several of these are being evaluated.
See Comparison of webconferencing solutions page.
Suggestions included:
- Cisco WebEx (suggested by Yaovi Atohoun) : http://www.webex.com/ ; See http://webconferencingstore.com/webex-vs-adobe-connect/ for a comparision of WebEx
- BlueJeans (http://bluejeans.com/)
- BigBlueButton (Suggested by Gordon Chillcott) http://www.bigbluebutton.org/) is a open source server with many similiar features to Adobe Connect.
- ReadyTalk (http://www.readytalk.com/) (suggested by Glenn McKnight)
- Jitsi : https://jitsi.org/
The TTF has reviewed several of these conferencing solutions with special purpose calls to test these solutions.
See the Comparison of webconferencing solutions page with the list of conferencing solutions tested so far.