Comment 1 for bug 503380

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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :

It would sure be a great thing and I'm sure that it would help a lot of presenters.
I created a Blueprint a while ago to track all bugs and things that have to do with this at <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lernid/+spec/session-leader-interface>.

The biggest problem would be how to authenticate people. Giving people the right to present by checking if they have a voice could indeed be the right solution, but Lernid would have to support NickServ authentication to make that reliable.

In the Blueprint I suggest to add the nicknames to the session metadata, but that would be very unreliable as it would provide loads of Lernid clients to have a connection with a bot and the permissions to voice people. Silly me! That would never be safe. Using voice makes much more sense and is a clean solution that wouldn't add clutter and bloat to the application.

The session leader interface would work even better if Lernid would support dual screen setups and the d-n-d-ing of tabs and notebooks.