Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > The right question here is: is it more important for Wikimedia foundation > to use only open source than it is to focus on work that directly benefits > the movement? There's no reasonable open source to do this function. The > ones that exist are terrible, are less efficient, and have to have hardware > dedicated to them. In either case it's going to cost money to handle this, > the question is, should it also cost engineering time? > > Idealism comes at a pretty high cost. The foundation in the past has made a > pretty reasonable choice in the past in that they're willing to use > proprietary software for functions that aren't directly associated with the > projects. The decision is often focused on "if the community wanted to fork > the projects, would this proprietary software we're using be a problem?". > In this case the answer would be no.
the old default (AFAIK) was Google Hangouts. which I guess is just as closed source but maybe is less cost? note that I'm not saying that sub-optimal cost or source availability or hosting options are necessarily a reason to not use bluejeans. but I would at least like to be aware of the answers to those questions. OTOH, IMO, the (apparent) inability to use this service with stock Chrome (on a chromebook, stable channel) without sharing my webcam/microphone is a blocker. (which maybe we can get them to fix) I suppose the service may work ok with a Chrome instance that itself doesn't have access to the webcam/microphone hardware. But that's not good enough. again, IMO. -Jeremy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
