On Thu, 2020-04-30 at 22:32 +1000, David Lochrin wrote: > Back on topic, https://opensource.com/alternatives/skype lists open- > source alternatives to Skype. > > Two of these are Jitsi and Jami > [...] > Do Linkers have any comments or experience regarding these packages, > especially in light of the security issues with such widely-used > software as Zoom?
Jitsi doesn't have e2ee but it is being worked on. On the other hand, you can setup a Jtsi server within your enterprise (or house, or datacentre, or cloud) and protect the endpoint yourself. I found Jitsi very easy to use; it's not as polished as Zoom, but the fundamentals work very well. It supports meeting recordings and video quality control, chats and "raise hand". No whiteboard. In-browser only - Chrome/Chromium and Firefox definitely work, sometimes with warnings about supported browsers, but that may just be because I'm running Ubuntu-ised versions. Meetings and people can be stored as simple bookmarks. As far as I can tell, every meeting is a "meeting room" - a meeting is identified by a simple text string and anyone with that string can reach your meeting. Whether they can join will depend on whether you have set a password or not. If no-one is in a meeting any more, the meeting ceases to exist, but there is nothing stopping you (or anyone else) using the same string later - hence it works as a "meeting room", though with weak ownership. I haven't had a chance to use it much, but I get a good vibe from Jitsi; would be happy to experiment with it if others need a "play friend" to try it out with :-) Haven't tried Jami. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 2561 E9EC D868 E73C 8AF1 49CF EE50 4B1D CCA1 5170 Old fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
