On 1 Jul 2020, at 18:28, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Can I ask about two issues which are recurrent across many online events at the moment? 1. do they support clientless access or are you stuck with having to install a local client of some form? Zoom seems to require a browser plug-in to work on a browser, and these plugins don't work on all systems. By comparison, lots of other online systems support webrtc (e.g. uberconference, bluejeans and piles of others). 2. why does zoom / webex / etc need to know who we are? I really don't want the conferencing system to know who I am.
to get around the asinine US “axis of evil” mentality, the afrinic team publish their webinars/meetings/blah as a youtube stream, at the time of the event. this allows joe public to listen in, as anonymously as youtube allows. i’m told you can even comment and ask questions in real-time, if you have a google login, but that sort of higher brain function escapes me ..
-n.
