[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

[Paul Nijjar]

This is what LibrePlanet used (except they streamed via Icecast
instead of going to Youtube) and it worked okay. 

As far as I can tell there are three FLOSS contenders for
webconferencing: Jitsi, BigBlueButton and Apache OpenMeetings.
Everybody else is just embedding one of those three. I think we are
happy enough with BBB to start there, but if this gets popular (as if)
then we may want to make livestreaming work. 

Honestly I am glad three alternatives exist, and I hope we can keep
them viable. (There may be other FLOSSy ones, but if there are then I
do not know them.) 

- Paul

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 03:10:37PM -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> One thing that you could try is to do some sort of livestreaming plus
> chat (maybe put the #kwlug channel on IRC to use, or a Matrix room).
> One thing we do at my work sometimes is we have some people join a
> Jitsi, and then use https://obsproject.com/ to livestream the conference
> to YouTube.  If you do this, then people can follow the livestream, and
> ask questions in the chat.
>