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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[What it is]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Web-MeetMe is a collection of PHP pages to allow for database</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">driven scheduling of conference resources.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[Current features]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Schedule new conferences</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Control start and end times</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Set conference pin #</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. Generate one if the requester leaves it blank</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">b. Identify pin # conflicts (another conference with</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the same pin is scheduled at the same time)</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Set Admin and User passwords</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. Generate a user password if an Admin pw is set</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">but the User pw is blank</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4. Email the details for a successfully scheduled conference</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">5. Separate views for Current, Past and Future conferences</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">6. Ability to modify the end time of a running conference</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. Can also reschedule a past or future conference.</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">7. Monitor realtime conference activity</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. Mute/Kick participants</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[What's new]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've had a number of folks submit enhancements or make requests for </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">improvements. Specifically with how people should be limited to viewing other</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">parties conferences. So-</FONT>
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<P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Optional authentication</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. Currently Active Directory or LDAP based</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">b. Authentication is abstracted so unix/PAM/DB/RADIUS</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">support could be easily added (but outside of my</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">interest to do so (patches welcome))</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Users can only monitor, update or delete their conferences</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Verified administrators can monitor, update or delete any</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">conferences.</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4. Updated to CVS-Head (a couple weeks ago, will target 1.2 soon)</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. Changes to the Manager interface may have caused</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">support for 1.0.X to slip, I cannot test that)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">[Maybe]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A recent list post about Marked callers and Admins prompted me to think</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">that perhaps the conference flags should be stored in the database, so the scheduler</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">could pick the conference options that they want. While I don't see this as too hard</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to add, I think that the interface would be a bit busy with even a subset of the 22</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">flags available in recent MeetMe versions. So this is a call for feedback, if anyone</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">even wants such a feature-</FONT>
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<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Does anyone want it?</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. What options should be available? </FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a. For Users?</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">b. For Admins?</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">c. Any that should be considered default and not optional?</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Should I consider the current features a release point, or is there</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">something I missed that should be added before packaging it?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I appreciate the feedback I have received since the last announcement, and </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">apologize that I allowed work to get in the way of development.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks and enjoy,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dan</FONT>
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