[BLU/Officers] Online meetings

[John Abreau]

I also have a server at home that's meant for our site. I had held off on
building it until CentOS 8 was released, then forgot to get back to it, but
I'll add that to my todo list and start working on it this week.

I installed jitsi earlier today, just after replying to Bill. It looks okay
in the browser and on my android phone, as far as I can tell without other
participants, although in firefox it complained about the browser and
recommended google chrome instead. The jitsi client application appears to
be a text-based chat client; I've been unable to find any video
capabilities in it.

I lust connected to Hangout Meet with google chrome using my gapps login.
Again, like jitsi, I need some other participants in order to try it out
properly.

The video meeting I have open now is at the following link:

https://meet.google.com/oda-sngs-krp


On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:01 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree that G-Hangout-Meet and Jtsi are worth a look. We have 2 issues:
> 1. April 15th. We just have to coordinate with Federico.
> 2. Officers. (a more standard collaboration platform, like G-Hangout-Meet
> 3. I have a server sitting at home that I will bring to the BLU hosting
> center at some time.
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 2:50 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 2:24 PM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If Zoom is unacceptable, then I imagine skype, hangouts, and the other
>>> options mentioned previously will likely also have issues. It sounds like
>>> you think it would be bad to even test Zoom.
>>>
>>
>> While Skype and Hangout-Meet are owned by MS and Alpha/GOOG, respectively
>> somewhat and highly suspect on privacy grounds, i am not *aware* of any
>> *specific* privacy issues with them.
>> (I haven't noticed targeted ads as a result of keywords in Hangout... yet
>> ... as i do with G-mail, G-chat and FB DM and post/reply.
>> Creepy but better than all the ED cures they used to offer when my only
>> known demographic was Male.
>> OTOH you'd think they'd know i eventually bought a mattress after
>> comparison shopping so maybe i don't need another immediately and they can
>> back off that keyword?)
>>
>> I looked through those links, and a couple of them recommend Jitsi as an
>>> alternative. Apparently we could run our own blu.org jitsi server on
>>> our hardware.
>>>
>>
>> That would seem to be the most FLOSS-dogfood option based on the current
>> buzz.
>> I can't personally recommend as I haven't tried Jitsi.
>> Offhand IDK running our own might be required - is there a free server
>> and is it over-subscribed in this crisis?
>>
>> Shall we test jjitsi instead, or do you have some other platform in mind
>>> that we should try? I'd really like to try out something suitable this week
>>> for holding an officers meeting with at least 3 participants.
>>>
>>
>> I'm comfortable with G-Hangout-*Meet* and that is compatible with our
>> existing YouTub archive, bonus.
>> Jitsi probably worth a look.
>>
>> // Bill
>>
>>
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