Seems to me a lovely idea.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2014 00:08:38 Michael Bohlender wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> video conferencing seems to gain more and more importance within KDE. The >> Plasma team has their weekly "Monday Hangout", the VDG regularly video-chats >> as well, and I'm sure we're not the only ones. >> Currently, Google Hangouts are our service of choice for that. It works >> well, >> but its big problem is that it needs a proprietary browser plugin to work. >> Requiring people to install proprietary software for their involvement in a >> Free software community strikes me as... not optimal. >> While looking for a Free alternative to Hangouts, I was pointed to the >> "Jitsi >> Meet" service [1]. It's a completely Free software solution for which - >> thanks to WebRTC - users don't have to install anything. There is a demo >> site for the service [2], but of course people who use the service >> regularly are encouraged to host their own installation. >> The only caveat I found so far is that it doesn't work on Firefox yet >> (because Firefox has they are lagging behind in implementing a certain RFC >> needed for that) and not on Rekonq or Konqueror either (presumably for the >> same reason, or maybe just because they're sending the wrong user agent >> string), but it does work fine on Chromium, Chrome and Opera, one of which >> I assume most KDE contributors have installed anyway. >> Jitsi Meet has a built-in Etherpad and supports Screen-Sharing (through >> their >> own Chromium add-on). >> >> So the question is: Would it make sense for KDE to host our own Jitsi Meet >> installation so we can do our video conferences purely on our own >> infrastructure? > > So to dig the thread up again: What do the others think about this? We've > tested Jitsi Meet successfully with three participants so far, it works pretty > well! > > Before requesting an installation of Jitsi Meet for KDE, we'd still need to > know if it's only us who want that or other people think it would be useful, > too? > What about the Plasma team and their Monday Hangouts? Could you imagine using > Jitsi Meet instead of Google Hangouts? > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
