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Is it possible with Yuuguu to set up a conference for 50 people?
On reading instructions it sounds like if I had 50 people involved, I would have to click manually on each one to share my screen with them. Surely it can't be this awkward? I see that there are some paid versions coming out. Will they allow easier use for larger groups?
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Inappropriate?To get 50 people in a group, you would use (on PC) CTRL-Click and SHIFT-Click on the Contacts view. It works like Windows Explorer.
To get a quick feel for it, click on the Top Contact in your contacts list to select it, scroll down to the bottom of your contacts list, hold SHIFT down whilst you click. The whole list will be selected. If you want to remove individuals from this group, hold down CTRL as you click on selected contacts, they will deselect.
Youll notice that in the quick chat box, the 'Chat' button has turned into Group Chat; the Show button will launch a screen share with all the selected people in that group.
We do have plans to add customisable Group features - like 'Work', 'Friends' etc. We've not done that yet - we've found that doing the UI usability design is pretty tricky to make that something that is pleasant to use.
Hope the group features that we do support help a bit ...
As ever, let everyone here know what you think of them.
cheers
Al
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Inappropriate?also I think the free version has a limit of 30
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Inappropriate?Also, which instructions were you referring to - they obviously need a tweak to their written english!
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Inappropriate?Al, I was reading the Quick Start Guide, step 2. Says to select a contact and then share screen. I realize now I can select several at a time. I assume I can do that in Safari as well? -
Inappropriate?Give it a go, I'm sure multiple select or using the "Add" button on a conversation will help you build a group quickly.
Regarding your question about Safari, Yuuguu is a desktop application which is often confused with an internet browser page because of the look and feel we use. Safari is the internet browser on the Mac. If your question was does Yuuguu work on the Mac. The answer is yes. -
Inappropriate?and thanks for the heads up about the instructions. Perhaps if we tweaked that to '... select your contacts' or something with in the plural that might be better.
At first reading, it does clearly suggest only one. I've always felt that you can hardly feel bad about reading some instructions then doing what they said!
sorry 'bout that.
We find clear english harder to write than software sometimes!
- oh yes, I forgot to mention the other way of doing it - in the chat history window, there is the 'Add' button. That's much easier for groups where they don't all line up nicely in the contacts list. It has oneof those double-paned 'add these/remove these' type UIs that is better for that.
The contact highlighting way is really good for quick, small groups. And as it was one of my bits of coding, I tend to think of it first. You might be better off with Add, for your application. -
Inappropriate?Yuuguu is really two things: the Desktop Application and 'Web Share', which is a cut-down Yuuguu that works inside a browser.
You need the Desktop Application if you want to Start a screen share session, manage your account preferences, manage contacts and so on. Using just a web browser, you can use the Chat, Screen Share and remote keyboard/mouse control features. So the meeting host(s) need the desktop application, other participants can use just the web viewer - or download the app if they want to.
The Desktop Application works on Windows XP/2000/Vista (and prob. others) and Mac OS - and now various Linux OSes.
The Web Share viewer component works on Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari I think Chrome (?) and maybe Opera (?). My colleagues will have to help me out with a full list of nrowsers and versions, I don't know them all off hand. I tend to test with IE7 and FF2. -
Inappropriate?Al, very helpful. May I go back to my original question? If I want to have a meeting of 50 or 60 people, how do I do that? I don't mean how to add them in as a group but I am referring to your statement "the free version hosts up to 30 people". So is there another version I can use? It implies a paid version as an alternative.
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Inappropriate?... sorry... I do ramble away from the point a bit, ask my wife ;-)
From discussions in the company, I think the answer is yes - the paid versions (once they are released) will allow groups much larger than 30. There are very definite plans to release these, and soon, but we're still in dev on them at the moment.
@other Yuuguu devs: is there a way round this for now? -
Inappropriate?No unfortunately not. At the moment there is a limit of 30 people - sorry.
Regards, Phill.
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