Hi All,
With the current situation it's obvious there will be more remot conferencing and I was wondering what open source solution (GPL/BSD or similar licence) people recommend?
Ideally it would allow audio, video, text chat and shared whiteboarding and be cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) and be fairly simple to operate.
Steve Mynott steve.mynott@gmail.com wrote:
With the current situation it's obvious there will be more remot conferencing and I was wondering what open source solution (GPL/BSD or similar licence) people recommend?
Ideally it would allow audio, video, text chat and shared whiteboarding and be cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) and be fairly simple to operate.
There's https://nextcloud.com/talk/ which I think makes its money from renting hosting for high-volume conferences.
I used an earlier version hosted here at the co-op but I don't think we've got the latest and greatest.
We also used Spreed-WebRTC a few times but it stopped working a few browser version updates ago and I've not yet got around to investigating/repairing it (a shoemaker's children problem).
Don't forget that sometimes it's better to record a short message/demo with recordmydesktop or similar, rather than suffer the fragility that can often come with live broadcasts or multicasts on top of the risk of saying something incorrect and wasting everyone's time until you realise it. But on the other hand, some people will obsess about making the perfect recording when it's not really needed.
I'm interested to learn what other people are doing. I fear that the awful lack of support for Linux and Android from some of the big players may push agnostics back towards proprietary platforms again.
Hope that informs,
Hi,
Not exactly a solution for the specific use case that MJ called out, but I use jitsi (https://jitsi.org) for videoconferencing with remote teams for day-to-day video chat calls.
I've found it compares well with commercial equivalents such as appear.in and zoom, and would definitely recommend it. I've installed a self-hosted version and found that performs equally well in most situations.
Hope its helpful,
Jim
On 2020-03-16 19:27, MJ Ray wrote:
Steve Mynott steve.mynott@gmail.com wrote:
With the current situation it's obvious there will be more remot conferencing and I was wondering what open source solution (GPL/BSD or similar licence) people recommend?
Ideally it would allow audio, video, text chat and shared whiteboarding and be cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) and be fairly simple to operate.
There's https://nextcloud.com/talk/ which I think makes its money from renting hosting for high-volume conferences.
I used an earlier version hosted here at the co-op but I don't think we've got the latest and greatest.
We also used Spreed-WebRTC a few times but it stopped working a few browser version updates ago and I've not yet got around to investigating/repairing it (a shoemaker's children problem).
Don't forget that sometimes it's better to record a short message/demo with recordmydesktop or similar, rather than suffer the fragility that can often come with live broadcasts or multicasts on top of the risk of saying something incorrect and wasting everyone's time until you realise it. But on the other hand, some people will obsess about making the perfect recording when it's not really needed.
I'm interested to learn what other people are doing. I fear that the awful lack of support for Linux and Android from some of the big players may push agnostics back towards proprietary platforms again.
Hope that informs,
MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ Member of http://www.software.coop/ (but this email is my personal view only)
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