[kde-community] Jitsi Meet installation for KDE?

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Seems to me a lovely idea.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2014 00:08:38 Michael Bohlender wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> video conferencing seems to gain more and more importance within KDE. The
>> Plasma team has their weekly "Monday Hangout", the VDG regularly video-chats
>> as well, and I'm sure we're not the only ones.
>> Currently, Google Hangouts are our service of choice for that. It works
>> well,
>> but its big problem is that it needs a proprietary browser plugin to work.
>> Requiring people to install proprietary software for their involvement in a
>> Free software community strikes me as... not optimal.
>> While looking for a Free alternative to Hangouts, I was pointed to the
>> "Jitsi
>> Meet" service [1]. It's a completely Free software solution for which -
>> thanks to WebRTC - users don't have to install anything. There is a demo
>> site for the service [2], but of course people who use the service
>> regularly are encouraged to host their own installation.
>> The only caveat I found so far is that it doesn't work on Firefox yet
>> (because Firefox has they are lagging behind in implementing a certain RFC
>> needed for that) and not on Rekonq or Konqueror either (presumably for the
>> same reason, or maybe just because they're sending the wrong user agent
>> string), but it does work fine on Chromium, Chrome and Opera, one of which
>> I assume most KDE contributors have installed anyway.
>> Jitsi Meet has a built-in Etherpad and supports Screen-Sharing (through
>> their
>> own Chromium add-on).
>>
>> So the question is: Would it make sense for KDE to host our own Jitsi Meet
>> installation so we can do our video conferences purely on our own
>> infrastructure?
>
> So to dig the thread up again: What do the others think about this? We've
> tested Jitsi Meet successfully with three participants so far, it works pretty
> well!
>
> Before requesting an installation of Jitsi Meet for KDE, we'd still need to
> know if it's only us who want that or other people think it would be useful,
> too?
> What about the Plasma team and their Monday Hangouts? Could you imagine using
> Jitsi Meet instead of Google Hangouts?
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