JP Vossen via plug on 5 May 2020 18:12:25 -0700 |
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Re: [PLUG] open source meeting tools |
On 5/5/20 7:33 PM, Fred Stluka wrote:
JP, The article's a little out of date. Could already use Zoom from Firefox w/o download or plugin. Right? I've been doing it since 4/14. No idea how long before that it was possible. Maybe always. You and I already commented on that. See my post: - http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2020-04/msg00137.html and yours: - http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2020-05/msg00001.html --Fred ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Stluka Bristle Software, Inc. http://bristle.com ; #DontBeATrump #SadLittleDonny #ShakeOffTheTrumpStink #MakeAmericaHonorableAgain http://MakeAmericaHonorableAgain.us/Trump/Countdown.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 5/5/20 2:54 PM, JP Vossen via plug wrote:https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/05/05/160252/firefox-76-arrives-with-password-management-and-zoom-improvements...The company specifically called out Zoom, which has become a phenomenon of its own during the pandemic. In short, you now join Zoom calls in Firefox without having to download or install the Zoom client.... On 5/5/20 2:43 PM, JP Vossen wrote:I fired up a NextCloud VM just to have a server-in-the-middle for FF WebRTC. It...worked...and the cool part was that it was all on my internal LAN (OK +VPN). But it was clunky; we've switched to using Jitsi which pretty much Just Works for our family use case.On 5/5/20 2:22 PM, brent saner via plug wrote:FYI, Jitsi is no longer owned by Atlassian. it is owned (and operational costs funded by) 8x8 since 2015.https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/atlassian-sells-jitsi-an-open-source-videoconferencing-tool-it-acquired-in-2015-to-8x8/On Tue, May 5, 2020, 14:19 Fred Stluka via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>> wrote:Jeff, Good article. Thanks! I also followed a link from there: - https://opensource.com/alternatives/skype It's an article that discusses pros/cons, licensing, use cases for:- Jitsi bought by Atlassian in 2015, but still FOSS (Apache license)- Wire, by creators of Skype, before MS bought it - Jami, was Ring - Riot - Signal, mostly mobile, not laptop - Linphone - Nextcloud Thanks! --Fred------------------------------------------------------------------------On 4/27/20 10:29 AM, jeff via plug wrote: >https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/4/open-source-meeting-tools-3-things-know> Team runs on linux.
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