Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [Off Topic] More Linux users facing skype issues

2016-04-04 Thread James Cameron
You might also have fun with Firefox Hello. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello/?v=b https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hello-video-and-voice-conversations-online On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:59:21AM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: > It is great and refreshing to see momentum towards

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [Off Topic] More Linux users facing skype issues

2016-04-04 Thread tkkang
Have seen my son use this and host his chat session with teammates in game play 10 years ago. It has been around for long time and works well for him. http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php Nice if it can run on Sugar or can be a XSCE addon! Also bigbluebutton is an opensource videoconferencing

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [Off Topic] More Linux users facing skype issues

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Holt
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:11 PM, T Gillett wrote: > You might also like to look at Jitsi as a Skype replacement ( > https://meet.jit.si) for group tele/video conference in particular. > > You just need a reasonably up to date browser such as Chrome or Firefox. > > Just go to

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [Off Topic] More Linux users facing skype issues

2016-04-04 Thread James Cameron
Agreed, try some of the in-browser solutions. Or even host one yourselves on XSCE infrastructure. On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 10:11:17AM +1000, T Gillett wrote: > You might also like to look at Jitsi as a Skype replacement ([1]https:// > meet.jit.si) for group tele/video conference in particular. >

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [Off Topic] More Linux users facing skype issues

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Holt
One of our hackers in Haiti is of course a Linux diehard, who during our weekly call today, kept being being blocked by Microsoft's self-contradictory (and how am I supposed to upgrade??) message-of-death: "[user] unable to join this call as they need to update Skype first" So we tried to