Very interesting. Thanks for the heads up and let us know how it works. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote: > http://appear.in/ is a WebRTC videoconferencing site hosted by Norwegian > telcom Telenor. It works absolutely fine for people on Linux. Although the > source code isn't openly licensed, appear.in doesn't require that the user > install a proprietary plugin, so it's better on that count than Hangout. > And, like chatb.org, it does not demand a login. > > Pluses: > * ability to "claim" a room, kick people out, etc. > * not Google > * public API http://appearin.github.io/ - and they're open to feature > requests > > Minuses: > * only works right now in recent Firefox, Chrome, and Opera > * screensharing only works in recent Chrome versions > * no built-in video capture > * They recommend keeping conferences at <9 participants, "as this can cause > the application to crash because of the number of connections being handled > by the browser. The main limiting factor is the bandwidth of the > participants, as everything is streamed peer to peer." > > I'm going to try using appear.in for more of my ad hoc and 1:1 videochats. > > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >
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