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Old March 8th 11, 05:04 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default 2011 Colorado Performance Soaring Seminar Update

On Mar 8, 9:06*am, jsbrake wrote:
This is wonderful, Frank. *Thanks to everyone involved!

Will the record be available for download after the webinar? *I'll be
spending Saturday driving my family to NH a holiday.


Here's hoping, the option is there. Prior experience with DimDim
recording was haphazard. DimDim had some interesting features, but
was sold to SalesForce.com and is no longer available. The public
Internet is also subject to performance issues and maintenance is
often done one weekends, when businesses are less impacted. The
recording would stop for various reasons. This system appears to
have a more persistence recording mode, but there are still limits to
exactly what content is captured (making post-processing inevitable).

iLinc released Version 11 in late February and some things were
changed apparently. I attended a web conference and suffered some
client crashes. There were some patches in an updated release the
following weekend. I've only seen two crashes since during practice
(and trying out settings, etc). We ran a small webinar Friday
evening, which ran fine. I did some testing over the weekend and
found a couple of glitches, but no show stoppers.

These web meeting/webinar are kind of in two camps; client based and
Flash/Java based. Although I tend to prefer the latter as it's
universally viewable, iLinc personnel have explained they believe it's
more stable with a client and not F/J. Webex and GoToWebinar are also
client based. The client crashes I documented were Visual C++ Library
calls on a client installed DLL, but none since the updated client
release. If an attendee does experience a crash, it takes 1-3 minutes
before being able to log in again under the same identity.

Frank