what other params can I pass to the google hangout uri?

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I recently discovered a parameter to pass to a google hangout uri to make it "on air": reference

I'm also wondering if I can pass any other parameters. I know that we have app_id, but I'm more interested to know if there are other parameters, such as being able to set the title or the hangout in advance, e.g. 

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_?hso=0&title=EdX%20SaaS%20Pairing

Because then I could direct people to https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23hangoutsonair%20EdX/hangouts and they could see all the on air hangouts associated with our MOOC. I did experimentally try passing title=, topic= and name= all to no immediate effect ...

I'd also love to know if there's a way to automatically start the live broadcast, or even better have the hangout be automatically associated with and published to our G+ pair programming community:

https://plus.google.com/communities/100279740984094902927

Many thanks in advance

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Any luck on this one? I was curious if there was a way to set the title programmatically but haven't found anything. There's some evidence that it was possible here: techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/… (assuming that form had some param it could set for the title) but that UI has been deprecated, so I can't just check to see how it does it. – drewww
The second link is dead! – rahulserver

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Got this response from Tim Blasi at Google:

I'm a developer working on video calling. Unfortunately, you can not currently configure the video call in the way you are describing. However, we've received a lot of feedback that this is a pain point and we're currently working to address it. We'll keep your request in mind as we move forward.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/103524399391704001670/posts/JGtpxgvdD5H