[lug] Jitsi, etc.

[Mike Witt]

On 04/10/2020 08:39:18 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:42:21 -0600
> Dru Whitledge <druw at oneimage.com> wrote:
> 
> > Two names I've heard in the OSS arena for tele-conferencing are BBB
> > (Big Blue Button) with no downloaded client -- and Jitsi (
> > <https://jitsi.org/>https://Jitsi.org) that does use a downloaded
> > client (that you can hopefully trust -- as it's OSS).
> 
> FWIW I've looked at both of those systems.  My impressions of Jitsi  
> ended
> up here:
> 
> 	https://lwn.net/Articles/815751/

Jonathan,

Thank you very much for this review. I've just been starting to look at  
Jitsi and it's *very* helpful!

> The BigBlueButton article probably goes up later today.

And I look forward to seeing that one too.

> I currently have both systems running; I could make them available if  
> LUG
> folks wanted to do a test drive.

Do you happen to know -- Does Jisti (and any other conferencing systems  
you know about) use multicast? Or does all the traffic actually go  
through the server in a sort of "star" configuration? (Hope that  
question makes sense).

-Mike