Thanks Andrew, So I guess I'd say, who is going to fund a competitor to skype built on jitsi? Without a. Convenient easy to use GUI b. Sexy advocates and adopters and c. A marketing plan you aren't going to compete with Skype, Google Hangout, etc.
If security and privacy experts and developers are serious about broad adoption of their tools and not just building a closed club of cryptoexperts shouting "fire!" We have to work this out. I'm pretty busy with my own work developing a secure by design storytelling and journalism tool, but I'm happy to assist getting a jitsi based communications tool out there. Brian On Dec 21, 2012 11:29 AM, <liberationt...@lewman.us> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:52:35 -0800 > Brian Conley <bri...@smallworldnews.tv> wrote: > > > So I guess the question is, is there a more/similarly convenient > > video/audio chatting tool that can be advocated as a standard? > > Here's a single data point, extrapolate at your peril, I use Jitsi, > https://jitsi.org/. > > I use jitsi daily for all my phone calls, text chats, and video chats. > It's not as slick as Skype, yet. It's just a piece of software, you > need to setup your own chat or voip accounts. It works with gchat, > facebook, aol, msn, etc. It just works. It's effectively the open > source version of skype. It's the same UI and functionality across > operating systems (windows, macs, linux, bsds). I've watched non-tech > people figure it out in 10 minutes and start chatting/calling, etc. > > I have zrtp-encrypted video and voice chats with people around the > world. I can share my screen so others can see what I'm doing. For > zrtp-encryption and screen sharing, all parties have to use jitsi. And > OTR-wrapped text chat works well so far with any client on the other > end. > > It's still a work in progress, much like Skype was when it was first > released, but it's functional and gets out of the way so you can > communicate. My $0.02. > > -- > Andrew > http://tpo.is/contact > pgp 0x6B4D6475 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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