Engagement could coordinate and host these events and sessions.  I think we
should begin putting together a set of tools and begin testing things out
and see what works for everyone.  In the immediate I think adding a GNOME
Discourse site would be a great tool for people to follow GNOME meetings
and general day-to-day activities.

Tools we need:

- Discourse, www.discourse.org, to create a place for more dynamic and
real-time communication.
- "Hangouts" video-conferencing software that can be self-hosted, needs to
be FOSS <--- need to find this
- Some sort of "etherpad" for code that looks good and allows for live
collaborative editing, needs to be FOSS as well <--- suggestions?

If anyone wants to discuss this please let me know and I'll jump on to IRC
and explain what I'm trying to do here...


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Alex G.S. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andre this is great, thanks for searching. I'll have to see what I come up
> with on my end.  Yes one of the basic requirements would be an open-source
> service and not everyone has a Google account which makes the search more
> difficult.  Something hosted on Amazon or Google Cloud makes the most sense.
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> [Hope this isn't too bikesheddy as everybody can easily have an opinion
>> on this topic.]
>>
>> On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 13:42 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
>> > > Okay, so do you have any recommendations on how additional virtual
>> events
>> > > could be added that complement these physical events?
>> >
>> > The documentation team try to have a hangout available for other team
>> > members at our hackfests, but it would be better if a more reliable,
>> > Free alternative was available.
>>
>> Recently had a "video conferencing software vs. freedom" topic on my
>> company's internal mailinglist too. Free Software which was mentioned
>> (if someone wants to experiment, I have not yet):
>> * http://jscommunicator.org/
>> * https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitMeet
>>
>> I have started to prefer https://appear.in/ (run by Telenor) over Google
>> Hangouts for small meetings (didn't feel stable enough for >4 people
>> last time I tried). It's NOT free software either but it does not
>> require an additional closed-source browser plugin and it does not
>> require registration / login, which feels like a small step forward
>> compared to Google Hangouts. Requires a recent browser (WebRTC).
>>
>> andre
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>> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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