[coreboot] [RFC] Finding a conference call solution for the CCC

[mdn]

Did anyone of you tried jitsi ?

https://meet.jit.si/

Le 05/11/2016 01:56, Martin Roth a écrit :
> 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 at 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 at 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:
>>> https://bluejeans.com/numbers
>>> - 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 at 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.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Working conference call (audio) functionality
>>>> 2. No registration necessary
>>>> 3. 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/
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