<div dir="ltr">Photon working group,<div><br></div><div>We have our regular biweekly meeting on ESnet/Seevogh this morning. Please find the draft agenda in the usual place on the wiki, and update it as needed.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Most of you are already aware that you can join these meetings on your android phone using an app that Polycom distributes for the android platform. Now Cisco/Polycom has come out with an app for the desktop or laptop that allows you to directly connect to these meetings without needed to connect up to seevogh first, and wait for the bridge. The app is called "Jabber". Versions are freely downloadable for either Windows or the Mac. I have not been able to find an equivalent app for linux so far.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To connect using Jabber, first install the client, then connect using the address:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:8542553@es.net">8542553@es.net</a> <----<< just <a href="http://es.net">es.net</a>, not <a href="http://gk.es.net">gk.es.net</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It will directly connect you to the meeting, and allow you to enable your microphone and video camera, or let you share your screen over the meeting video uplink. You connect just like anyone else with a polycom unit, and do not need to wait for someone to set up the bridge connection. Muting your microphone when you are not speaking is probably still required, unless you are wearing a headset.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Call me if you have trouble making it work. 860-377-5224. One drawback is that Jabber does not work behind a NAT router, so if you check and your IP address is something like 192.168.x.y then Jabber is not going to get any audio or video from the meeting -- unless you set up for yourself a vpn connection to a real network. Then it does work behind a router, as I have verified.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Richard Jones</div></div>