Jitsi "Meeting" - feature requirements

[helenvarley]

the "Meeting" tool allows players to open a jitsi "Meeting" on the stage, allowing everyone present (audience and players) to participate in an audio-visual meeting.

feature that already exist in the meeting tool on upstage.live:

• a player can create a meeting room, place it on the stage, and become the moderator before turning on the lightbulb to make it visible to all present on the stage
• can be made larger and smaller, turned and moved around on the stage
• can be made transparent with the slider at the left

features that are needed:

• restriction of jitsi tools. currently all the Jitsi tools are visible to everyone, audience as well as players. this means that people can "hang up" the Jitsi meeting; audience can accidentally become moderators, can share their screen or do other things that the players may not want them to be able to do. there is also the jitsi chat, which is then confusing as there is the UpStage chat, but audience may open the Jitsi chat as well.
• THIS NEEDS FURTHER DISCUSSION to define what Jitsi Meeting tools are needed and what should ideally be hidden.

[helenvarley]

use case scenarios:

• following a performance in UpStage, the artists would like to hear feedback from the audience. one player puts a Meeting onto the stage, becomes moderator, then turns on the lightbulb and allows the audience to unmute themselves if they want to give feedback.
• during rehearsals, the artists use the meeting tool so that they can talk about what they are doing on the stage. they make the meeting invisible / under the chat or otherwise out of the way, as they only need to be able to talk.
• in a workshop / training situation, a Meeting is used to introduce participants to each other, and then as an audio conference as the workshop leader explains the on-stage player tools; participants can also ask questions during the session.

[helenvarley]

last night we used the Meeting tool in our performance, and it was largely successful in terms of the actual streams and participants receiving and being able to join. it's very very tricky to use the Jitsi tools within UpStage, but probably this is nothing we can change. it just needs to be the job of one player who isn't trying to do other things at the same time.