[okfn-help] free software for teleconferencing, etc.

Mon Jul 18 22:00:57 UTC 2011

Hello,

We have just tested http://bbb.okfn.org with William and it works quite well, can't compare to Skype since I don't use it myself. One can call in from web interface or from SIP client, using external client seams to give higher audio quality, I would encourage everyone to play with it by going to link above.

=)
elf Pavlik

Excerpts from William Waites's message of 2011-07-10 11:46:04 +0200:
> ] I suggest this software: Big Blue Button
> 
> So I've set up a straight out-of-the-box installation of this at
> http://bbb.okfn.org/
> 
> Some significant customisations would need to be done to use this for
> real, at a minimum, multiple meetings and such, some twiddling with
> the dialplan so that users of regular VoIP clients can just call,
> e.g. sip:ckan at bbb.okfn.org and we have no idea the scalability
> especially if people start doing crazy things like using the video.
> 
> It also needs to be locked down a bit, some careful iptables work here
> would be necessary.
> 
> This is also set up at Rackspace (us12.okfn.org) which is in the US,
> this is moderately bad news because most of us are in Europe and
> multiple trips across the atlantic are not great for VoIP. But I
> judged that better than trying to work around Amazon's NAT
> arrangement.
> 
> I'm not convinced we need all the features because actually people
> usually use the pirate pad and such for taking notes and the chat
> thing in there - it may be a good idea to just try to take the flash
> SIP client out of bbb and use it standalone. Kitchen sink bloat, bah.
> 
> In the meantime, feel free to try it out. If people generally like
> it then maybe we can try to do this "for real".
> 
> -w
> 