This would be a good time to note that folks who care about their software
freedom cannot effectively participate in SPDX, and not only because the
conferencing solution is proprietary software (although in the past I was
able to join non-video via a phone number using PSTN line -- this thread
Quoting Jeremiah C. Foster (2020-04-15 18:57:24)
> On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 16:45 -0400, John Sullivan wrote:
> > "James Bottomley" writes:
> >
> > > Well, I'm glad you asked ... so far the most promising fully open
> > > trial
> > > is this one:
> > >
> > > https://bigbluebutton.org/
> > >
>
>
"James Bottomley" writes:
> Well, I'm glad you asked ... so far the most promising fully open trial
> is this one:
>
> https://bigbluebutton.org/
>
Yeah, FSF is running an instance that is being used to successfully
teach classes at MIT right now. We'll post more about it soon, but can
confirm
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Subject: Re: Chime instead of Zoom, a modest proposal
On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 20:55 -0700, Kyle Mitchell wrote
I have not the technical expertise to judge the security level of the
following solution that works with Zoom on Linux:
https://www.linux.com/news/how-to-install-and-use-firejail-on-linux/
For some distros like Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt install firejail
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firejail
On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 20:55 -0700, Kyle Mitchell wrote:
> Others have more religious affinity for the Linux desktop.
Wow that's a blast from the early part of this millenium. Since Linux
now runs over 80% of the world's computing resources, I thought we'd
got over stigmatizing people who
I've used the Linux Zoom client nearly every day for a few
weeks now, and less often for several months before that.
It's been seamless for all the core talk-and-watch
functionality.
It does lag a bit behind on lesser features. For example,
some of the call-recording options on Windows and Mac
On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 20:31 +, Mark Atwood via lists.spdx.org
wrote:
> Chime has clients for Win, and for Mac, it runs in Browser on Firefox
> and on Chrome on all OSes, it has clients for mobile OSes, and also
> has local and tollfree telephone dialin in most countries.
So no app for Linux
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the generous offer. :-) We're not paying for zoom,
however I'm definitely up for doing an experiment during our spdx-tech
meeting tomorrow, and if it works for the regular attendees, changing to a
system with better security.
Can you send me the details for the account
Hi Kate and other SPDX folk,
We have been using Zoom to provide teleconference for SPDX meetings. In light
of recent events, Zoom has gotten very popular, and also been failing many
security audits, and so many companies and governments have started banning its
use.
Amazon has a service
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