[lug] Jitsi, etc. (Michael Hirsch)

[Dru Whitledge]

Thanks for sharing Michael, I'm hoping you'll share more. You are -- 
and other Linuxers you communicate with are comfortable with 
downloading a pre-compiled Zoom client from un-reviewed code to your 
Linux box?

I don't know that anyone disputes that Zoom would be technically 
better -- based on Eric Yuan's contributions to Cisco's WebEx --  I 
would assume -- but would be curious as to the relative trade-offs. 
THAT much better to abandon all alternatives and standardize on a 
product backed by evil spying ethics (now renounced?)? Anyone one on 
FaceBook, of course, has zero worries about being spied on -- while 
others -- like Elon Musk (who may be a wacko, but a innovative one) 
don't want their data on or passing through Zoom.

Amongst your experience with Jitsi would that include experience with 
Jitsi Desktop as a D / L client? Does that help close the quality gap 
with Zoom? Mostly? Any? Completely? Any idea why development on it 
was "stalled" in 2017? Is that D/Led client with fast direct access 
to video the quality difference? Is Jitsi Desktop still available and 
viable today?

Any opinions on why OSS has failed us as a "free" solution for Public 
Infrastructure software and Zoom won that lotto -- clearly with an 
impetuous, emotional stampede to the bright shiny object -- that now 
seems unstoppable (used as a verb) even if Jitsi could match the quality?

Dru


>lug-owner at lug.boulder.co.us When replying, please edit your Subject 
>line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LUG digest..." 
>Today's Topics:    1. Re: Jitsi, etc. (Michael Hirsch)    \

>(Michael Hirsch) 
>------------------------------------------------------------------


>---- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 20:31:50 -0600 From: Michael 
>Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users 
>Group -- General Mailing List"

><lug at lug.boulder.co.us> Subject: Re: [lug] Jitsi, etc. 
>Message-ID: 
><CAL4OPA-Qm-gpjyMUGU6Ph4mQnmsQ147gBDCZprze6zDmiJfmfw at mail.gmail.com> 
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

>I have a decent amount of experience with three tools Zoom, jitsi 
>and Google meet. Zoom has the best video quality especially when you 
>have multiple people in the call. Google Meet I've been using 
>professionally and is not bad.  It's now available for individuals 
>though I haven't used it for that. It is essentially Google hangouts 
>with better video. Jitsi seems to have problems keeping up with the 
>video and audio but it's free and dead simple to use. It has no 
>download necessary you just create a meeting name and people join it 
>via their web browser.  it's that simple. But the quality is not so 
>good. I saved the day last Sunday when zoom had an outrage.  I'm a 
>few seconds I was able to create a jitsi meet and we were able to 
>have our meeting with about a dorm noon-technical people.  I think 
>the zoom meeting would have been better, but this was so easy.  No 
>account, no 40 minute limit, no download. Bonus: jitsi is completely 
>Open Source. Michael On Mon, May 18, 2020, 8:01 AM Davide Del Vento 
><davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote: > > If I hear anything to 
>indicate that any one of the above really works >> well, I'll give 
>it a try. But "give it a try" (to really determine if >> it's going 
>to work for the group) is a procedure involving multiple >> (busy) 
>people for a non-trivial amount of time. >> > > Ditto, that's why I 
>asked... > > Plus, I've found that many people are attached to the 
>tool they are using > (often for no reason) and any request to try 
>something different results in > a loud cry.... > > Anybody having 
>compared things side-to-side and willing to share would be > useful 
>for me too. > > Thanks, > Davide >