Yes - definitely interested in the results from these alternate choices. Hangout limits are a problem for us.
Best, Alolita Alolita Sharma आलोलिता शर्मा Director of Engineering Internationalization / Localization Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm super curious to hear what your experience is like with this. > > In my mind, the fact that there's even a 15 person limit with hangouts is > a pain. The scrum of scrums meeting for instance often has about 15 > participants, and we've been bit before by the limit. So not being able to > support 9+ participants well is a huge minus. > > One thing I really like about hangouts is that I can use it easily on > mobile devices - this is something I'd really like to see in alternatives > we explore. > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:17 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 >> >> > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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