[lug] Jitsi, etc.

[Michael Hirsch]

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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