Disclaimer :
This pad is part of our attempt to collectively study a platform [BBB] . No exhaustive knowledge precedes it, nor wishes to reach a point of full understanding, but to combine with the lived experience of the software.
These are questions not to be answered one by one, but to spend time with. Although of course if you have answers, please go ahead ;)
Can be used as a group, not as isolated questions -- so more like a questioning atmosphere?
These questions can also be applied to a group of software, more or less nameable "videoconferencing tools"?
Thesse questions might invoke other tools for comparison and extension: please welcome those in!
This is a growing list of questions, please rewrite and add as many as you wish!

- 2/ Interface

• • Please list the interface's most significant parts
    • Public chat // compared to zoom, main chat room with PM toggle
    • Can save chat easily // zoom, auto save for host, not sure about users saving chat // what are the capabilities for that expansively ==> what can be created, explored, what is wasted?
    • most apparent for me is its visual layout: rectangles boxes windows lines rows lists straight edges 90% corners
    • most usefull is the fact that one can concentrate by droodling on a shared whiteboard it is an illusion that attention comes from exclusion it comes as much through diversion

• • Please list secondary parts of the GUI that were uneventful at first sight ;)
    • i think that the integrated shared notes is one step to far it becomes uneventful because it gives the feeling it tries to retain users within the box and not let them use external pads. BBB is not a star in inventiveness anyway, but in tis case it mimicks too much the centralisation attempts of commercial counterparts and i loose interest because somehow it feels it moves away from what could make a meeting place interesting. Open, connected, diverse ..

• • Which are the main areas of use of this platform?
    • meetings

• • Can you describe the experience of entering the platform you just had today?: what do you found first, what was offered to you and under which terms?
  • Any elements that caught your attention on terms of accessibility? How is this Interface elastic for diverse sensorialities?
  • Which are the latent cultures on this platform?
    • variants fit for specific purposes could sprout from its open source code.
    • there's an implicit mimicking of hierarchical structures that could develop into a 'radical classroomed version'
    • a 'dedocking' of functions to explode in a multiverse of surpring snippet services
  • How do you feel the interface influences what you do with it?
    • it is squarifying and immobilizing my work and drains the energy. But at the other hand it is nice to have a tool for larger meetings installed on an independent server that does not suck data adn that is relatively smoothly
  • Can you identify traces of former media cultures, or technopolitical legacies of some sort?

in the allowing anyone to take presenter, and in the ability to produce accessible rooms open without knocking on the door, there's a trace of awareness that fixing hierarchies might not be desirable for all situations, ...
The endless permission asking for access to micro and cam

• • Are there any obvieties, naturalized parts or procedures, neutralized elements?
  • Which design details caught your attention and why?

non obvious elements that came up..
who's the first in the list? what's the order in the left based on? is it the same for all?

breakout rooms cant be extended in time.. just ended. a bit brutal subdivision and regrouping..

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* medium-sized beige dropdown menu
> it can only open tickets to the helpdesk..

big silver back-space button
'express yourself'

* intuitive as imitational/seen-already rather than innate/'universal'..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology