[coreboot] How come the community meeting is hosted by proprietary software?

Juliana Rodrigues juliana.orod at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 15:50:31 CET 2017


Don't know if anyone brought this up yet, but the FOSS communities
that I know uses jitsi: https://meet.jit.si

It's MIT, but works very well.



Em sex, 17 de mar de 2017 às 11:27, <tturne at codeaurora.org> escreveu:

> On 2017-03-17 06:27, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > Patrick Georgi via coreboot wrote:
> >> 2017-03-17 13:17 GMT+01:00 Dumitru Ursu <dima at ceata.org>:
> >> > I never tried the web interface.
> >>
> >> We did, it failed us.
> >
> > I wish someone would have mentioned that sooner.
> >
> > What problems did people have with mumble-web, and where was the
> > websockets server running, relative to the mumble server?
> >
> >
> > //Peter
>
> I'm sorry, I have to contribute at this point.
>
> I got started with OSS in 2000 when Monta Vista Software (anybody
> remember HardHat Linux?) hired me as a FAE.
> I was teamed with a salesperson and we were trying to close business
> selling an embedded Linux distribution.
> Every 6 months or so we would have a sales meeting somewhere and
> engineering would share with us the latest product development news,
> etc.
>
> Ahead of one of these meetings I happened to be in headquarters (Santa
> Clara, CA) and remember very clearly the happy face of this engineering
> manager who had just "wasted" (my opinion) 3-5 days generating a
> presentation slide-deck with OSS (I don't even know if Open Office was
> available at that time) for the meeting, instead of spending two hours
> doing same presentation with Powerpoint.
>
> Just because I work with OSS doesn't automatically make me a zealot for
> OSS as the only way to go.  I choose the correct tool to get the job
> done.  I always hope for an OSS option, but to this day, Outlook is the
> only product Micro$oft got right and I will choose it over any of the
> OSS options I have tried as an email client.
>
> I will leave with, think of the contribution to Coreboot source code
> this energy could generate instead of spending it on fixing a problem
> that doesn't need fixing?
> Cheers,
> T.mike
>
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