Mainly we're using proprietary software because it works better than the open source alternatives we tried.
We wanted to use the open source solutions, and tried a number of options in the months since the CCM started. They all had serious issues with people not being able to hear one another. We used discord for several months, but people kept having to disconnect & reconnect before they could hear people. It got to the point where I was repeating everything that was being said because I was the only one that everyone could hear.
We finally settled on bluejeans because it has telephone call in support as a last resort. If we want to try evaluating other options again when our subscription to bluejeans expires, I'm open to that, and we can vote on it in the community meeting like we did when we selected Bluejeans.
If anyone wants to participate in the meeting but doesn't want to use the proprietary software, please call in on your phone. Here's the global list of numbers: https://www.bluejeans.com/numbers
Background: See this thread from the mailing list: https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-October/082297.html and https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-November/082327.html
And see the meeting minutes of the november 10 meeting: https://coreboot-meeting.pads.ccc.de/CommunityMeetingTopic Trying to find a new platform for the coreboot community meeting. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s-lV3yv_fy6Z0AxceF3ZK5rQv7AWodKq6u5P... Mumble: -No web client Hangouts: -Bandwidth issues, -low maximum users (10 for public) Jitsi: -Stability issues? Bluejeans: -no firefox client, -$120 per year, +phone bridge Skype: -It's skype Tox: -no web client Discord: -Web clients don't work well