I have met Emil Ivov the creator of Jitsi several times at real time communications technical conferences - here's a recent podcast episode discussing Jitsi history
https://saas.group/podcasts/open-source-saas-acquisition-changes-and-challenges-with-emil-ivov-jitsi/ -- Perry Ismangil Director Teluu - Communicate Everywhere E [email protected] T +44 114 299 8883 W https://www.teluu.com 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London W1W 7LT, United Kingdom Registered in England as Teluu Ltd, no. 07825138. VAT: GB972656874. On Sun, 23 Feb 2025, 12:48 Richard Ibbotson, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > The thought occurred to me that someone out there might not know much > about Jitsi which is the video conferencing suite that ShefLUG and > ManLUG used for two years during the pandemic to run our meetings. It > was a bit wobbly at times but it was better than no meetings at all. > Since that time Jitsi has come along further. I have used Cisco Webex > myself which I think is very good but there was a review of Jitsi in New > York where it came second to Webex... > > From Wikipedia.... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi > > " Reception and Usage > > In an April 2020 test of video conferencing services, US product review > owned by the New York Times Wirecutter recommended Jitsi Meet as one of > its two picks (after the more feature-rich Cisco Webex which it found > preferable for large groups and enterprises), stating that Jitsi was > "easy to use and reliable" and that "in our testing, the video quality > and audio quality were both great — noticeably sharper and crisper than > on Zoom or Webex".[57] > > During the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, 8x8 reported 10.4 million > active users globally per month.[58] Several organizations and > universities have set up their own Jitsi based video conferencing > services, among them fairkom with fairmeeting, hosted on a scalable > kubernetes cluster in the EU[59] or Goethe University Frankfurt.[60] > The non-profit-organization Digitalcourage discourages in 2023 the usage > of the free meet.jit.si service, as it is not free of tracking, requires > authentication at either Google, GitHub, or Facebook and is hosted at > AWS which is not considered GDPR-compliant.[61][62][63] " > > > > -- > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Sheffield Linux User's Group > http://sheflug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sheflug_sheflug.org.uk > FAQ at: http://www.sheflug.org.uk/mailfaq.html > > GNU - The Choice of a Complete Generation > _______________________________________________ Sheffield Linux User's Group http://sheflug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sheflug_sheflug.org.uk FAQ at: http://www.sheflug.org.uk/mailfaq.html GNU - The Choice of a Complete Generation
