[BLU/Officers] Next meeting

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Thu Apr 23 14:48:46 EDT 2020


Just so you know, they just got bought dirt cheap by Verizon

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/bluejeans-bought-by-verizon-for-less-than-800m-546826


On 4/23/20 2:12 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> To be clear, I suggested we try bluejeans for one month, at a cost of 
> $9.99, to compare it to jitsi. Bluejeans has a bunch of meeting 
> management features that jitsi lacks, that sound useful, and its 
> livestream/recording functionality sounds far better than jitsi's, 
> even when jitsi' is working correctly. Bluejeans is also a separate 
> application on Linux, not dependent on a browser.
>
> The jitsi live streaming and recording failed completely when we held 
> the meeting last week.
>
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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:50 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bill.n1vux at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:12 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gaf.linux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         John mentioned that we buy bluejeans for our next and
>         following meetings. Cost is $9.99/mo. I've used bluejeans
>         before. I can't get a trial membership because I have used it
>         before. One advantage is it handles live streaming for up to 5
>         hours. I think bluejeans does handle screen sharing a bit
>         better than jitsi. Bluejeans is a closed source enterprise
>         solution.
>
>
>     I missed Federico's meeting, alas.
>
>     Did the Jitsi/YouTube combination not satisfy?
>     I saw one positive comment on the Jitsi.
>     I do NOT see a capture of the livestream on YouTube; did it stream?
>
>     If we want to look commercial solutions, one should look at
>     StreamYard as well, that's what professional streamers are using
>     for WFH interviews.  Streams to YouTube, Periscope, & FB Live
>     simultaneously, and merges the chat streams into moderator
>     console; moderator can push a comment into Chyron (aka "lower
>     third") as well as pop up chyron's identifying the speaker(s).
>
>     -- 
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