Quite often, during a conference call people would need to exchange text messages. The most common example is sending a link to a page that is somehow related to the conversation but we also often need to share e-mail addresses, text quotes, phone numbers, ssh keys, IP addresses (and make that IPv6 because who uses IPv4 anymore right? ;) ) and a number of other things that are inconvenient to spell or dictate.

We have therefore decided that we’d like our conference calls user interface to also feature the possibility of sending a message to all participants. Now, we don’t necessarily need something as heavy as an associated Jabber/IRC chat room since this would be tricky to setup and not all users would be able to benefit from the feature.

What we’d really like is the possibility for every client to send such messages to the focus agent of a conference call.