I'm fine with using hangouts. I actually didn't realize that it had been updated so that you could join a video conference without a Google account, and it looks like that was done about a year ago.
It meets all of the requirements that Paul listed.
Are there any objections to using hangouts?
Here's a link to a video hangout, for anyone who wants to test it. https://hangouts.google.com/call/su2vuj5unbhj7b6i6vizg7cowye
Martin
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org wrote:
At the risk of sounding like a corporate shill: what's wrong with Google Hangouts? It's got a web interface and native clients for Android and iOS. (I'm not sure if you still need a binary plug-in for Firefox, but at least Chromium can run it natively via WebRTC.)
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Martin Roth gaumless@gmail.com wrote:
We were thinking of switching to the mumble server that Chris Ching has
set
up, but it doesn't seem to have any web client or way to work around
that.
After looking at a number of solutions, I think the solution we'd like to try at this point is Blue Jeans - bluejeans.com. It's actually a paid service at $120 per year. I think the biggest advantage here is that it supports a phone bridge, which makes many of the other features
unnecessary.
Upsides:
- Telephone call-in with numbers in many countries:
- Native clients for Windows, Linux (RPM), OSX, IOS, and Android.
- Web interface (chrome only - other browsers are being deprecated)
- Maximum of 50 attendees per meeting - I think so far our highest
attendance has been 12 people or so.
Downsides:
- Not a free service - it costs $120 per year per host. The cost may
increase in the future. They don't offer a discount for open-source
projects
or non-profits at this scale.
- Web client only works with chrome/chromium
- Not an open source solution.
Annoyances:
- The native Linux client is only available as an rpm
- Only a single person (email address) can host a meeting. I'm not sure
of
how much an issue this really is - If we schedule the meetings in
advance,
and it starts automatically, it may not be a problem. If the host has to join before anyone else can talk, that's not so good.
Let me know what you think. Martin
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Paul Menzel via coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org wrote:
Dear coreboot folks,
At the last coreboot community meeting (CCC) [1][2], some participants couldn’t here what other participants were saying with the current conference call solution Discord [3].
As this greatly reduces the productivity, the conclusion was to find a different solution, as this problem has been present since the beginning and Discord doesn’t seem to be able to fix this.
So either somebody gets in contact with Discord, and they promise to work on a solution for the next meeting, or we need to find a different solution.
The requirements are.
- Working conference call (audio) functionality
- No registration necessary
- Clients for all operating systems (packages at best in distribution
archive), or at least a Web client that runs with Mozilla Firefox (ESR and last version), and Google Chromium (last version).
Chris(?) offered to set up a Mumble [4] server. Clients for all operating systems are supposed to be available.
Also Tox was mentioned [5], which doesn’t feature a Web client, as far as I can see.
So if you know of a solution, please tell us, so that technical problems won’t spoil the fun of the CCCs.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] https://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_community_meeting [2] https://coreboot-meeting.pads.ccc.de/CommunityMeetingTopics? [3] https://discordapp.com/ [4] https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page "Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming." [5] https://tox.chat/ -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
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Martin Roth