meeting-timer

Meeting Timer

A simple application to allow you to keep your meetings or webinars running on time.

It has two modes:

• Screen-share: a window that contains the timer that you can screen share on your video conferencing software. This mode is useful for meetings where everyone attending should see the timer.
• Webcam: a virtual webcam stream that you can use instead of your real webcam to display the timer. This mode is most-useful for webinars where you can share the timer with other presenters via your webcam which can be hidden from the regular participants by making it a webinar co-host.

Table: operating system (OS) support:

Mode	Windows	MacOS	Linux
Screen-share	Yes	Yes	Yes
Webcam	No (1)	Maybe (2)	Yes

1. It currently doesn't support windows however If you are a developer and can work out how to connect it I am happy to accept your pull-request to submit the code.
2. It is possible the Linux method might work for MacOS however I do not have access to a MacOS computer to test it out. If you do and successfully get it to work, please drop me a message (andrewjrobinson+mt at gmail.com).

Documentation

• Install Guide
• User Guide

TO-DO list

Some features that I would like to add:

• Allow customisation of display (font-size, colours [done] etc.)
• Allow full schedule of events to be specified ahead of time:
  • Manual advance to next speaker
  • Automatic advance
  • Display runtime difference from schedule (i.e. how late/early are you)
    • Display in configuration window (i.e. you only)
    • Progress bar to display meeting progress on timer output
• Import schedule from spreadsheet (CSV) OR pasted from clipboard (TSV)
• Webcam Support:
  • WindowsOS
  • MacOS
• Save configuration to file (JSON) [done]
• Settings dialog [done]

To be honest though, I may not get to implementing these since my main motiviation for creating this application (hosting a webinar) has passed (and this tool performed very well).

If you have other ideas please contact me so I can add them to the list and hopefully get time to implement them at some point.

If you have the skills/time to implement the Windows/Mac version of webcam mode please get in contact so we can work together to get it implemented.

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