Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> If BNJ isnt actually open source, here is an open source solution that >> we could use and help fund as required (e.g. buying their commercial >> offerings so that WMF Engineering/Ops doesnt need to support

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > If BNJ isnt actually open source, here is an open source solution that > we could use and help fund as required (e.g. buying their commercial > offerings so that WMF Engineering/Ops doesnt need to support it) > > http://bigbluebutton.org/ I've checked their demo and it uses Flash. Which

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Erik Bernhardson
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:00 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Brion Vibber > wrote: > > BlueJeans is "open source" though I can't offhand find their source code > by > > googling for "bluejeans source". ;) > > I've dug

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of the Map US Conference

2016-03-01 Thread Pine W
(Cross-posting) For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM, now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations. Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > BlueJeans is "open source" though I can't offhand find their source code by > googling for "bluejeans source". ;) I've dug around a bit, and also cant find anything to suggest that they are open sourcing any parts of

Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC: Notifications in core

2016-03-01 Thread Isarra Yos
Ye. On 01/03/16 21:41, Legoktm wrote: Hi, I've written an RfC about moving most of the Echo extension code into MediaWiki core: . RobLa has written a summary of it on the Phab task:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Please provide feedback on suggested improvements to the Code of Conduct

2016-03-01 Thread Matthew Flaschen
See discussion at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Seems_to_be_a_lot_of_unanswered_questions_and_gray_areas . Matt On 02/23/2016 09:37 PM, regu...@gmail.com wrote: I notice you mention in a lot of places that people should contact an administrator. What if the person

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Brion Vibber
Yep, all Linux-compatible large-group video conferencing options known are known to be bad in different ways. -- brion On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Strainu wrote: > 2016-03-01 23:55 GMT+02:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:21

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Strainu
2016-03-01 23:55 GMT+02:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) : > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > >> When you join you're prompted to either use your computer or use a phone >> connection; if you choose computer, you then are given the chance

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Brion Vibber >> wrote: >> > Jeremy, uncheck the microphone and camera buttons after

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > When you join you're prompted to either use your computer or use a phone > connection; if you choose computer, you then are given the chance to enable > or disable the camera and mic before the connection actually

[Wikitech-l] RfC: Notifications in core

2016-03-01 Thread Legoktm
Hi, I've written an RfC about moving most of the Echo extension code into MediaWiki core: . RobLa has written a summary of it on the Phab task: . Feedback is appreciated. :) --

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Brion Vibber > wrote: > > Jeremy, uncheck the microphone and camera buttons after selecting > > 'computer' and before selecting 'join'. > > right, I saw those. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Jeremy, uncheck the microphone and camera buttons after selecting > 'computer' and before selecting 'join'. right, I saw those. the problem is that if you have Chrome set to disallow websites from using your Mic/Camera

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Brion Vibber
Jeremy, uncheck the microphone and camera buttons after selecting 'computer' and before selecting 'join'. -- brion On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > > The right question

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > The right question here is: is it more important for Wikimedia foundation > to use only open source than it is to focus on work that directly benefits > the movement? There's no reasonable open source to do this function.

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Brion Vibber
BlueJeans is "open source" though I can't offhand find their source code by googling for "bluejeans source". ;) It's being used mostly for larger meetings because a) it has a larger limit for number of participants than Google Hangout and b) it seems to be more open than Google Hangout. When you

Re: [Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Ryan Lane
The right question here is: is it more important for Wikimedia foundation to use only open source than it is to focus on work that directly benefits the movement? There's no reasonable open source to do this function. The ones that exist are terrible, are less efficient, and have to have hardware

[Wikitech-l] bluejeans

2016-03-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine wrote: > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > changed: > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition because I wasn't paying

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brownbag: Exiting New Improvements to Phabricator

2016-03-01 Thread David Strine
We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has changed: https://bluejeans.com/396234560 On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:10 PM, David Strine wrote: > This is a reminder. The brownbag is still on for tomorrow, March 1st at > 1pm PST. > > We will be

[Wikitech-l] dataset1001 (dumps.wikimedia.org) maintenance window March 2 1-4pm UTC

2016-03-01 Thread Ariel Glenn WMF
Dataset1001, the host which serves dumps and other datasets to the public, as well as providing access to various datasets directly on stats100x, will be unavailable tomorrow for an upgrade to jessie. While I don't expect to need nearly 3 hours for the upgrade, better safe than sorry. In the

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom RFC triage on Wednesday 2016-03-02?

2016-03-01 Thread Marko Obrovac
Hello, On 27 February 2016 at 01:00, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi folks, > > An ArchCom RFC triage (per > ) was penciled in for this > past RFC meeting (), but I was > out for jury duty and