Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-27 Thread Robin Laing
On 26/08/2020 17:07, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:31:12 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: On 30/03/2020 08:01, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:50:01 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: FWIW I've been using Teams from chrome on Fedora 30 for like two weeks now for classes (audio,

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Aug 26, 2020, at 20:31, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Did you read the description of the project? It's just a wrapper for the > Teams web interface, not really an application. Unfortunately, that description applies to a good many apps these days. -- Jonathan Billings

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/26/20 4:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:31:12 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: Web interface works but not the best but I find Microsoft products not the best. I find that the layout and organization is frustrating and it took me two days to find out where the email

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:31:12 -0600 Robin Laing wrote: > On 30/03/2020 08:01, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:50:01 +0200 > > Andras Simon wrote: > > > >> FWIW I've been using Teams from chrome on Fedora 30 for like two weeks now > >> for classes (audio, video, chat and screen

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Robin Laing
On 30/03/2020 08:01, Tom Horsley wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:50:01 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: FWIW I've been using Teams from chrome on Fedora 30 for like two weeks now for classes (audio, video, chat and screen sharing), and, touch wood, it's been very stable. I can easily believe the web

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-08-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Mar 2020 08:56:23 -0400 > John Mellor wrote: > > > In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a > > videoconference package available? > > An even better question would be: Are the others in the conference > likely to have compatible hardware and software? :

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 08:55 +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 6:21 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 08:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 May 2020 13:07:32 +0100 > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > BTW, Google say that

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-13 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 6:21 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 08:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Wed, 13 May 2020 13:07:32 +0100 > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > BTW, Google say that Duo will support multi-user on desktops in the > > > near future. > > > > And

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 08:26 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2020 13:07:32 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > BTW, Google say that Duo will support multi-user on desktops in the > > near future. > > And probably 15 years ago now google said an official linux client > for google

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 13 May 2020 13:07:32 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > BTW, Google say that Duo will support multi-user on desktops in the > near future. And probably 15 years ago now google said an official linux client for google drive would be available "soon" :-).

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 16:43 +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > > We actually tried Google Duo recently and had good results for one-to- > > one chats, but the multi-user option only works with mobile devices. > > The web version currently doesn't. > > > > BTW, Zoom not only leaks private data

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi https://meet.jit.si/ I've built my own Jitsi server. Seems to be a good video conference system. Digital Ocean offer a one click install package or you can build a working server on whatever you choose. Does a good job. Richard On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 12:14, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > > On

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-05-13 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:06 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2020-04-01 at 10:38 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > I have been a long time Skype user, but again have never thought of it > as a video conferencing tool. Very few people seem to use it this days. > Maybe Covid-19 may be it's

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-04-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-04-01 at 10:38 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I have been a long time Skype user, but again have never thought of it as a > video conferencing tool. Very few people seem to use it this days. Maybe > Covid-19 may be it's saviour. I use Skype for a weekly family conference (4 users

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-04-01 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 30 March 2020 16:47:37 George N. White III wrote: > Ekiga was previous Gnome Meetings: > > Available Packages > Name : ekiga > Version : 4.0.1 > Release : 46.fc31 > Architecture : x86_64 > Size : 8.5 M > Source :

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-31 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:16 PM Saša Janiška wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:33:59 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > I found something called openmeetings, but it is java-based, OSS, but > > not on Fedora. > > I'm also lokking for webconference package suitable for education and > know that

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-31 Thread Saša Janiška
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:33:59 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I found something called openmeetings, but it is java-based, OSS, but > not on Fedora. I'm also lokking for webconference package suitable for education and know that WikiSuite (http://wikisuite.org/Openfire-Meetings) does plan to use

RE: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-31 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
@#$%^&-addicts, but perhaps a decent guru can make ends-meet From: George N. White III Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 5:48 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: VideoConference Package? On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 09:57, John Mellor mailto:john.mel...@gmail.com>> wrote: In this exten

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 09:57, John Mellor wrote: > In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a > videoconference package available? > Ekiga <https://www.ekiga.org/> was previous Gnome Meetings: Available Packages Name : ekiga Version : 4.0.1 Release

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:50:01 +0200 Andras Simon wrote: > FWIW I've been using Teams from chrome on Fedora 30 for like two weeks now > for classes (audio, video, chat and screen sharing), and, touch wood, it's > been very stable. I can easily believe the web interface is better than the app, I

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread Andras Simon
Le lun. 30 mars 2020 à 15:28, Tom Horsley a écrit : > > We just used Microsoft Teams (which I imagine isn't remotely > free, but our work IT department is obsessed with Microsoft). > It was moderately OK, has an unbelievably annoying linux > version: For instance, you can't ever exit, it keeps

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
-19 isolation, is there a > videoconference package available? > > Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a > client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for > free, and not available for a local install. > > I thought of Webe

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 3/30/20 5:56 AM, John Mellor wrote: In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a videoconference package available? Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for free

Re: VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:56:23 -0400 John Mellor wrote: > In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a > videoconference package available? An even better question would be: Are the others in the conference likely to have compatible hardware and software? :-). We just used Mic

VideoConference Package?

2020-03-30 Thread John Mellor
In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a videoconference package available? Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for free, and not available for a local install. I thought