[kwlug-disc] ZOO-FAANG-free list

[Jason Eckert]

When it comes to open source conferencing-like software, Jitsi seems to be
the golden child chosen by those that aren't normally involved in the
industry (perhaps due to polish?).
Also, am I the only one who won't pay to read a Wired article because I
believe that news/information should be free?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:28 AM Jeff Smith <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not to further muddy the waters..  but Wired just published an article on
> switching to Jitsi..
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-jitsi-offers-open-source-alternative-zoom/
>
>
>
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> *From:* kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org> on behalf of Hubert
> Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca>
> *Sent:* 20 April 2020 13:34
> *To:* kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [kwlug-disc] ZOO-FAANG-free list
>
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:58:33 -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> said:
>
> > Note that BBB does not scale that well. People on the newsgroup report
> > that it chokes around 80 users, and cannot go much above 150 because
> > of node.js .
>
> > There ought to be a way to streamcast a BBB session the way that the
> > FSF streamed the Jitsi session, but I do not know what that is yet. It
> > is tricky because a BBB session consists of several different streams:
> > the HTML5 client, the audio (FreeSWITCH), and one stream per
> > webcam/screensharing session (Kurento).
>
> FSF wrote a blog post[1] about how they did the virtual LibrePlanet
> conference.  It looks like they just did a screen capture of jitsi and
> streamed that, so it should work with BBB too.
>
> [1]
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/how-to-livestream-a-conference-in-just-under-a-week
>
> My company often does something similar for our meetings, but using OBS
> instead of GStreamer.
>
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