Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

[Saijun]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

Hello friends,

This morning, I fiddled around with both; once I got past the initial surprise of the programs actually working for me (a rare occurrence, to be sure), I took a peek around; I would like to cast my vote for an oovoo meeting hall and a mebeam sitting hall. This way, there is greater clarity in the meeting hall, but you can put more people in the sitting hall.

However, I am not a technology "have," and don't know what kind of issues there are behind the scenes. I am sure that whatever happens, the sangha will live on and thrive :-)

Much metta,

Perry

[Janne H]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

I would like to cast my vote for an oovoo meeting hall and a mebeam sitting hall. This way, there is greater clarity in the meeting hall, but you can put more people in the sitting hall.

It seems both Oovoo and Mebeam have the same 6 person limit though.

[Saijun]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

It seems both Oovoo and Mebeam have the same 6 person limit though.

Oh. I didn't know that. That being the case, I cast my vote for Oovoo with Mebeam as a backup.

Thank you for telling me that.

Much metta,

Perry

[Shohei]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

just one addition, shohei, in response to jundo's question -- while working on a mebeam problem, i came across a post on the developer, ashod's, blog -- in it, he acknowledged that at some point in the last year he changed mebeam to a 6 person limit, due to problems they were having with, i think, bandwidth -- i am fairly certain of this, as i tested it by opening 6 windows at once -- i couldn't open a seventh

Ahh! makes sense. Thank you for checking Roky! Well ill start making the switcheroo to the Zen hall and the meeting hall, too. I agree Dosho, Zen hall is for silence sitting baring the life interruptions and testing and so the meeting hall will be also be going oovoo thanks to Don!

Gassho
Shohei

[Dosho]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

just one addition, shohei, in response to jundo's question -- while working on a mebeam problem, i came across a post on the developer, ashod's, blog -- in it, he acknowledged that at some point in the last year he changed mebeam to a 6 person limit, due to problems they were having with, i think, bandwidth -- i am fairly certain of this, as i tested it by opening 6 windows at once -- i couldn't open a seventh

Ahh! makes sense. Thank you for checking Roky! Well ill start making the switcheroo to the Zen hall and the meeting hall, too. I agree Dosho, Zen hall is for silence sitting baring the life interruptions and testing and so the meeting hall will be also be going oovoo thanks to Don!

Gassho
Shohei

Yes, good work on finding out the limit roky...guess that pretty much makes it official since I don't see any tangible advantage of mebeam now. But if I am missing something...please correct me! And really we're voting on which platform gets the "official" link since neither are going away, right? Is there a way to redirect folks to the mebeam room if the ooVoo rooms are closed/full? I saw that you put a link for the reverse case Shohei which was a great idea.

Maybe mebeam will just be for folks in the know (secret hiding place!). I'll probably end up using mebeam since I'm the one who likes using an old computer far after the shine has come off.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Jundo]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

Another question:

If, once in awhile, there happen to be more than 6 folks who show up, is it possible in oovoo to open more than one conference room at once on one account? I mean, the two conference rooms cannot see each other, but the people in room 1 can see and sit with the people in room 1 ... the people in room 2 can see and sit with the folks in room 2 ... the people in room 3 with room 3 ...

I ask as that is what we have done with Mebeam sometimes, such as during our annual Jukai ceremony.

Gassho, J

[Shohei]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

Another question:

If, once in awhile, there happen to be more than 6 folks who show up, is it possible in oovoo to open more than one conference room at once on one account? I mean, the two conference rooms cannot see each other, but the people in room 1 can see and sit with the people in room 1 ... the people in room 2 can see and sit with the folks in room 2 ... the people in room 3 with room 3 ...

I ask as that is what we have done with Mebeam sometimes, such as during our annual Jukai ceremony.

Gassho, J

Hi Jundo,
Short answer yes,
long answer yes, we have 2 accounts one for the sitting/zen hall and one for the meeting hall. So there is 12 folks right there. if extra room is needed its on the same a count it costs (i say with out much digging) however in a special circumstance its not too much labour to add more rooms. (either by taking the plunge on my account and adding another room giving 18. If thats not enough we can get more again!

Gassho
Shohei

[Shohei]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

Oh and Its now Oovoo as the primary system for sitting and meeting hall, mebeam just a click away!

Gassho
Shohei

[Engyo]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

...and there may be a way to add a room or two for time-limited or special occasion purposes for free, if we had the space to "park" them (ie an extra hall).
Gassho,
Don

[Shohei]

Re: Cast your vote here for a sitting hall(mebeam or oovoo)

...and there may be a way to add a room or two for time-limited or special occasion purposes for free, if we had the space to "park" them (ie an extra hall).
Gassho,
Don

Yes exactly!

Gassho
Shohei