Re: [Wikimediach-l] [Wikimedia-l] WMCH resolution about providing a web conferencing system for the Wikimedia Movement

2013-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Manuel Schneider 
Am 22.02.2013 10:46, schrieb Charles Andrès: Deployment is planned for
the next Wikimedia Conference in Milan.

 In the meantime, people interested in getting access to the tools can
contact us by email at supp...@wikimedia.ch, with a simple description
of the project, an estimation of the number of people interested and the
frequency of usage.

As the one who does this job: *briefly waiving hello*

Many of you wait for responses from me since last week - I take the
opportunity of this wide-spread mail to quickly response that I am still
alive, I just caught a bad case of Flu in London and was totally
grounded while I was in Vienna and supposed to set up the office network
of Wikimedia Österreich.

It will take a while until I have catched up with all my e-mail.

/Manuel
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Re: [Wikimediach-l] WMCH resolution about providing a web conferencing system for the Wikimedia Movement

2013-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Gabriel Thullen 
I also think that OpenMeetings would be great, being a big fan of open
source and free software, but the main issue here is one of speed, and
volunteer availability.

The way I see it, and Manuel can correct me if I am wrong, is that we have
someone who is familiar with BBB and setting up such a system for wikimedia
will not require a lot of extra learning for him. BBB will take time to set
up, of course, but not all that extra time needed to learn the details of
an Open software solution and to iron out the bugs.

I would say that we go ahead with the proposed BBB solution, and in a few
years we can always switch programs.

Gabriel

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Manuel Schneider 
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote:

 I have evaluated OpenMeetings before we discussed further steps on
 implementing BBB.
 It is very similar to BBB, has mostly the same features and also under
 the most components are the same (J2EE, Red5...).
 BBB seems to have a much nicer user interface, though.

 I'd didn't know about the sister project proposal. It looks a bit odd to
 me, doesn't really fit in the strategy of Wikimedia. I see video
 conferences as a tool, not a project itself. We have a similar component
 in the WikiTV project I am leading on german Wikipedia but the results
 are the discussions we want to document, not the video platform we use.


 /Manuel

 Am 25.02.2013 14:05, schrieb Charles Andrès:
  It seems that Openmeetings has actually been proposed as sister project,
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenMeetings.org
 
  But I do not see any progress on this subject.
 
  I personnaly don't know OpenMeetings.

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