Magnus Enger <mag...@enger.priv.no> > Sorry for being unclear about this. Google Hangout is a > video-conference-thingamajig, so what I had in mind was establishing > an audio-visual link to the lucky people in Thane, just for the fun of > it. I don't believe IRC works very well with audio and visuals, yet... > ;-)
I had this explained to me on IRC. I outlined the alternatives as far as I know them, but as my eyesight isn't great, video conferencing isn't my speciality. Anyway, I thought Thane couldn't sustain an audio-visual link because the conference isn't being streamed? > And yes, Google Hangout is a Google service, yes it does require > download and installation of a closed plugin-thingy. But on the > plus-side, I know several potential GBSD'ers use and it works quite > well (even with video from several participants, as opposed to Skype). > It was always meant as a fun add-on to the main event and > participating is in no way required to be part of the fun that is > GBSD. Yeah, but it means that FLOSS developers that are also FLOSS users get treated as second-class citizens and that's not a good thing. I'd prefer to offer FLOSS users equality if we can! > I'm very interested in learning about FLOSS alternatives for > videoconferencing, though! I've been told that Jitsi.org is the best at the moment (client download needed, but it's open unlike Google's, and you need to register on something like iptel.org, but you have a choice unlike Google and could even run your own server if you wanted) but I've yet to try it other than for a test. Longer-term, I expect MUJi (Multi-User Jingle) to be the way ahead. I think Google's VOIP service uses Jingle, so they could probably have pushed MUJi on, but they seemed to do the private Hangouts service instead. I guess locking people in isn't evil by their definition. :-/ Anyone got more experience with FLOSS videoconferencing? Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha