@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online
2026-04-20 00:25 UTC
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@scroeser@kolektiva.social 2026-04-20 00:30
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online I was looking at FourWaves for a while when considering an online conference. We didn't end up running the conference, but the staff were very helpful in talking us through it.
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@wdenton@cosocial.ca 2026-04-20 00:32
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online A hosted instance of BigBlueButton might do the job. I've seen it used in a few online conferences and it worked very well.
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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 00:42
@amyjko@hci.social, I recall you figuring out how to run hybrid courses in the beginning of the pandemic, would the tools you used then be useful for hybrid conferences today? @elizabethtasker@mastodon.online
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@marywordymary@wandering.shop 2026-04-20 00:46
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Have you looked at Whova? I havent been on the running end though.
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@Aepasek@scholar.social 2026-04-20 01:00
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online check out Spatial Chat maybe...
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@0x575446@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 01:02
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online When we were looking at Slack alternatives at work, the two that we gave serious consideration to were Mattermost and Rocket.chat. I remember both of them being fairly reasonably priced.
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@pcopfer@chaos.social 2026-04-20 05:10
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online Venueless could be am Option https://venueless.org/
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-04-20 07:12
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online The only one I’ve used and not hated was gather.town. It looks like an 8-bit Zelda game, with an avatar that can wander around the venue (you can customise the layout). When you walk close to someone else, you start to be able to hear their audio. Walk closer and you can see their video. This makes it easy to wander around and find interesting conversations to join in. Oh, and it doesn’t do collision detection on the avatars, so you can have big groups able to hear each other. Some squares can be made to have special actions. You can designate a podium, where your screen / window is shared to everyone else in the room (technically, a designated area, but it!s weird if you don’t make it a room), so you can have an auditorium where someone introduces the speaker to everyone in the room then they present. You can also set up smaller rooms like this for ad-hoc talks. The only issue I encountered was that there are limits to the number of people who can receive a stream (I think this can be increased by paying more). For the event I was at that hit this, the limit was 100 and there were more people than that. They needed to chase people out of the presentation room if they weren’t actually there.
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@ted_h@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 08:01
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online The IETF uses meetecho, which has an in app chat room bridged to Jitsi, in addition to streaming video, queue management and various role based privileges. It might match what you’re looking for.
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@da5nsy@social.coop 2026-04-20 10:16
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online I suspect @neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social and the other #neuromatch folks might have suggestions
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@MarcSchulder@fediscience.org 2026-04-21 14:13
@elizabethtasker@mastodon.online This is not exactly what you‘re asking for, but I‘ll describe what our workshop is doing. Tl;dr: Zoom and Mattermost. Long version: We‘re a satellite to a conference which offers Zoom for on-stage presentations, but no platform for poster sessions. For on-stage Q&A remote participants can submit text questions via Zoom. As the vast majority of our presentations are posters, we also use on-stage slots for elevator pitch sessions, i.e. 60-second single-slide presentations of each poster, to give everyone some screen time. Remote posters hand in a prerecorded video for their pitch to avoid connection issues and setup overhead. The live poster sessions are then in-person only. However, we have a slack-like chat server (Mattermost) that everyone gets access to several days ahead of time and that we keep running at least a week until after the workshop. Each paper gets its own room, with prefilled links to paper and poster/slides. Remote poster presentations are done via chat and can be as synchronous or asynchronous as presenters and audience like. All attendees are encouraged to use the chat, but no dedicated session exists, as we have a packed schedule already and don’t trust conference wifi. The result is a hybrid event that has a clear preference for on-site participation (which we communicate clearly) but does what we can to make remote participation still worthwhile for remote attendees.