<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">It's an intriguing and very promising piece of software!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I imagine if people can get past the learning curve that it could be very effective. We know OS works after all...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I put this out to a few friends; see comments from Hailey in below email - noting the entry barriers Collabforge have experienced getting people using Google products, and how Unhangout might work their way around those in future.</div>
<div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#663300"><b><i>John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#444444"><a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au" target="_blank">jsbaxter.com.au</a></font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Hailey Cooperrider</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hailey.cooperrider@collabforge.com">hailey.cooperrider@collabforge.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:05 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] unhangout<br>To: John Baxter <<a href="mailto:john@jsbaxter.com.au">john@jsbaxter.com.au</a>><br>Cc: David Hood <<a href="mailto:david@doingsomethinggood.com.au">david@doingsomethinggood.com.au</a>>, Julian Waters-Lynch <<a href="mailto:julian.waterslynch@gmail.com">julian.waterslynch@gmail.com</a>>, jean russell <<a href="mailto:jeanmrussell@gmail.com">jeanmrussell@gmail.com</a>>, Rebecca Dahl <<a href="mailto:rebecca.dahl@collabforge.com">rebecca.dahl@collabforge.com</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr">Looks great. We've been using the Lobby/Breakout metaphor in discussing our own Collabco platform.<div><br></div><div>It's amazing how hard it can be to get people over the learning curve with Google stuff. I've found that managing account creation, or having multiple accounts with Google, is often the main blocker with folks who aren't web-savvy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But as part of an event where all participants get a supported induction to video conference, it'd be great.</div><div><br></div><div>I think this sort of thing will get more fluid once we stop needing to rely on a backbone like Google to supply the conferencing services. There is an emerging web standard called WebRTC that will hopefully start catching on soon:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/" target="_blank">http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>With WebRTC adopted widely, we'll be able to have audio and video chat without special plugins or relying on Google, Facebook, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After a quick search, it looks like unhangout is open source, and they are already looking at WebRTC over Google <a href="https://the.hackpad.com/unhangout#:h=Directions" target="_blank">https://the.hackpad.com/unhangout#:h=Directions</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Nice find John. One to watch / borrow from.</div><div><br></div><div>-H</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:14 PM, John Baxter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@jsbaxter.com.au" target="_blank">john@jsbaxter.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Hello tech-savvy conversation hosts</div>
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<br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Have you used Unhangout?<br><br>Looks like an online videoconferencing tool designed to mimic an Open Space event. Very curious about whether it works. I imagine it could work quite well if you can get people past the learning curve.</div>
<div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/how-to-unhangout/" style="font-family:arial" target="_blank"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline">
</div>https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/how-to-unhangout/</a></div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#663300"><b><i>John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" color="#444444"><a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au" target="_blank">jsbaxter.com.au</a></font></div>
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<div><font color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><i><font color="#444444">note my reclamation policy means I process my inbox once daily, if that.</font></i></div><div><i><font color="#444444">happy to hear about anything urgent via phone or Twitter</font></i></div>
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Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:18 AM<br>Subject: [OSList] unhangout<br>To: "<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>
<br><br>Anyone know anything about the 'unhangout' platform? Or used it?<br>
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On first glace it looks rather like an on-line form of Open Space.<br>
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<a href="https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/how-to-unhangout/" target="_blank"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"></div>https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/how-to-unhangout/</a><br>
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