[Asterisk-Dev] MeetMe Improvement

[Marc Olivier Chouinard]

Hi everyone,

I've start working to add a few new feature on meetme, I'll list them here :
(bug 1973)
-	Hold everyone until Admin login
-	When admin join, he get a prompt about how many users will join the
conference(was on hold)
-	Prompt to the user about waiting for the admin
-	Prompt when the admin join the conference
-	Prompt when the admin leave the conference
-	Allow retry when asked for pin
-	Added a adminpin in meetme.conf
-	Beable to login as admin when current a user(or waiting for admin)
(option * 9)

I've talked alittle bit to mark about maybe the need for a more advanced
meetme application, maybe just called Conference.  MeetMe was made at first
as a basic conference system, and if we want to keep backward compability if
we want to add new feature, we should look at a new framework that base more
it config on the meetme.conf or conference.conf depending on what we want to
do.

So those feature I showed he seem to be more willing to add them after the
head goes out, but if we can work on building on a new conference platform,
it could just be put into that one instead.

I wanted to know if it was only me that was interested in making the
conference system more advanced.  I don't even use it really, but after
using other conference system at work, I feel that * shouldn't be without
them. If not adding more.

Here a list of new thing the new conference system could be included, please
add to the list so it help build a new framework for it:
- Better management interface, maybe via the Manager API
- Better VideoConference support(Maybe support ISDN Videoconferencing, and
make * also a Videoconference Bridge)
- Multiple layer of users, maybe 1 PIN per user predefined in a database
somewhere
- Have the posibility for the chairman to record the conference

Hey maybe even use a speech reconition and convert to text, pass it to a
translator and put it back with festival to another language... I donno, but
the idea is to make it more open and easy to add feature, we keep adding
flag, but someday will be out, and maybe we want to specify flag for a
specific user, that we cannot make rightnow.

So basicly I'l dlike to know what you guys think about that

Hope to hear from you all soon

Marc O. Chouinard
PS. Sorry for my bad english