I'm using Google Hangouts on Ubuntu and I can help anyone that's having a problem. It works out of the box on Windows and OS X as far as I know. On Ubuntu, I found it easier to set up with Chrome than with Chromium but it's possible with both and other browsers.
As far as the profile requirement, it does require you to "upgrade" your google account to a google plus account. Most of us have google accounts through our wikimedia.org google mail and the required pieces of information for a google plus "upgrade" are gender and birthday, and those aren't shared. You can see mine is pretty blank: https://plus.google.com/u/1/108031902869881812253/posts/p/pub?hl=en If anyone has enough trouble that they think setting up a wiki for this would be useful, I'd be happy to assist. Dan On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/10/12 03:08, MZMcBride wrote: > > Erik Moeller wrote: > >> Anyone will be able to join the meeting via IRC to participate and > >> watch the YouTube stream. Sign up if you want, or just join the > >> meeting when it happens. > > > > Hi. > > > > Thanks for working on this. It sounds neat. :-) > > > > I think the current meetings page is desperately missing instructions for > > joining the meeting. For example, are participants going to need a Gmail > > account prior to the meeting so that they can use Google Hangout? Does > using > > Google Hangout require any advance preparation such as installing a > plugin? > > Which IRC channel should meeting participants join? (And of course > depending > > on who you're targeting, there are a whole host of other questions like > > "what is IRC?" and "how can I easily join an IRC discussion [without an > IRC > > client]?", though I'm assuming that since this is a tech meeting, maybe > this > > isn't as necessary.) > > > > I'd offer to help with the documentation/instructions, but unfortunately > I > > don't know most of the answers. Any help you could give would be great. > > > > MZMcBride > > Last time I tried, Google Hangout required not only a Google account but > also Google+. You then needed to install a propietary plugin that > refused to work / be installed. That's my experience with Google Hangout. > > Connecting instead to a YouTube stream (RTSP I guess?) while reading on > irc looks promising. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
