[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

[jekerr at sdf.org]

Thanks for this Paul
Who knows, we may have more peeps for this than at the in-person meetings.
If so that would be great, and then we can also hold an additional meeting
at a pub on another night / day.
Cheers
John

> 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.
>>
>
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