On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:00 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> > wrote: > > BlueJeans is "open source" though I can't offhand find their source code > by > > googling for "bluejeans source". ;) > > I've dug around a bit, and also cant find anything to suggest that > they are open sourcing any parts of their solution, or anything > resembling bjn providing development or support for existing open > source technology components. > > Their own java classes are using namespace "vc.bjn", and googing that > doesnt lead to anything. > > Here is their recent github organisation: > > https://github.com/BlueJeansNetwork > > This looks like an older one: > > https://github.com/bluejeansnet > > And here is the only use of "vc.bjn" in github, by an employee > > https://github.com/Aldaviva/tailor > > Other employees have "operations"-like repos > > https://github.com/sczizzo > > If the organisation is a credible contributor to open source, I havent > found it yet. I hope that WMF included "open sourciness" in their > product selection criteria & evaluation, so their should be some > document describing how BJN is contributing to open source. It would > be great if that can be shared. > > > It's being used mostly for larger meetings because a) it has a larger > limit > > for number of participants than Google Hangout and b) it seems to be more > > open than Google Hangout. > >... > > Can't answer on if anybody's paying anything as I don't know, but > > personally I would hope we are helping to fund their open source > > development. ;) > > If BNJ isnt actually open source, here is an open source solution that > we could use and help fund as required (e.g. buying their commercial > offerings so that WMF Engineering/Ops doesnt need to support it) > > http://bigbluebutton.org/ > > From the FAQ: If you have a session with 20 users and all share their webcam (yes, this is possible) will generate 400 streams Pretty much sounds like a deal breaker to me. The primary use case of bluejeans is for meetings where we need a hundred people in the same channel. The difference with bluejeans is it manages the streams on the backend and sends just one video stream to each user (afaik). > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
