At the risk of sounding like a corporate shill: what's wrong with Google Hangouts? It's got a web interface and native clients for Android and iOS. (I'm not sure if you still need a binary plug-in for Firefox, but at least Chromium can run it natively via WebRTC.)
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Martin Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > We were thinking of switching to the mumble server that Chris Ching has set > up, but it doesn't seem to have any web client or way to work around that. > > After looking at a number of solutions, I think the solution we'd like to > try at this point is Blue Jeans - bluejeans.com. It's actually a paid > service at $120 per year. I think the biggest advantage here is that it > supports a phone bridge, which makes many of the other features unnecessary. > > Upsides: > - Telephone call-in with numbers in many countries: > https://bluejeans.com/numbers > - Native clients for Windows, Linux (RPM), OSX, IOS, and Android. > - Web interface (chrome only - other browsers are being deprecated) > - Maximum of 50 attendees per meeting - I think so far our highest > attendance has been 12 people or so. > > Downsides: > - Not a free service - it costs $120 per year per host. The cost may > increase in the future. They don't offer a discount for open-source projects > or non-profits at this scale. > - Web client only works with chrome/chromium > - Not an open source solution. > > Annoyances: > - The native Linux client is only available as an rpm > - Only a single person (email address) can host a meeting. I'm not sure of > how much an issue this really is - If we schedule the meetings in advance, > and it starts automatically, it may not be a problem. If the host has to > join before anyone else can talk, that's not so good. > > Let me know what you think. > Martin > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Paul Menzel via coreboot > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear coreboot folks, >> >> >> At the last coreboot community meeting (CCC) [1][2], some participants >> couldn’t here what other participants were saying with the current >> conference call solution Discord [3]. >> >> As this greatly reduces the productivity, the conclusion was to find a >> different solution, as this problem has been present since the >> beginning and Discord doesn’t seem to be able to fix this. >> >> So either somebody gets in contact with Discord, and they promise to >> work on a solution for the next meeting, or we need to find a different >> solution. >> >> The requirements are. >> >> 1. Working conference call (audio) functionality >> 2. No registration necessary >> 3. Clients for all operating systems (packages at best in distribution >> archive), or at least a Web client that runs with Mozilla Firefox (ESR >> and last version), and Google Chromium (last version). >> >> Chris(?) offered to set up a Mumble [4] server. Clients for all >> operating systems are supposed to be available. >> >> Also Tox was mentioned [5], which doesn’t feature a Web client, as far >> as I can see. >> >> So if you know of a solution, please tell us, so that technical >> problems won’t spoil the fun of the CCCs. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> >> >> [1] https://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_community_meeting >> [2] https://coreboot-meeting.pads.ccc.de/CommunityMeetingTopics? >> [3] https://discordapp.com/ >> [4] https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page >> "Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat >> software primarily intended for use while gaming." >> [5] https://tox.chat/ >> -- >> coreboot mailing list: [email protected] >> https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
