[lug] Jitsi, etc. (Michael Hirsch)

[duboulder]

For installing your own jitsi server, these might be of interest:

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-jitsi-meet-video-conferencing-solution-on-debian-10/

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/intro

AFIK, the jitsi desktop client is not developed anymore. The development and fixes are for the web-based stuff.

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On Friday, May 22, 2020 4:24 PM, Dru Whitledge <druw at oneimage.com> wrote:

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