The right question here is: is it more important for Wikimedia foundation to use only open source than it is to focus on work that directly benefits the movement? There's no reasonable open source to do this function. The ones that exist are terrible, are less efficient, and have to have hardware dedicated to them. In either case it's going to cost money to handle this, the question is, should it also cost engineering time?
Idealism comes at a pretty high cost. The foundation in the past has made a pretty reasonable choice in the past in that they're willing to use proprietary software for functions that aren't directly associated with the projects. The decision is often focused on "if the community wanted to fork the projects, would this proprietary software we're using be a problem?". In this case the answer would be no. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:36 PM, David Strine <dstr...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > We will be holding this brownbag in 25 minutes. The Bluejeans link has > > changed: > > > > https://bluejeans.com/396234560 > > I'm not familiar with bluejeans and maybe have missed a transition > because I wasn't paying enough attention. is this some kind of > experiment? have all meetings transitioned to this service? > > anyway, my immediate question at the moment is how do you join without > sharing your microphone and camera? > > am I correct thinking that this is an entirely proprietary stack > that's neither gratis nor libre and has no on-premise (not cloud) > hosting option? are we paying for this? > > -Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > 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
