[Okfn-no] [Okfn-se] [Okfn-dk] 1. inter-nordic google/skype hangouts - for building nordic, cooperation (miska knapek)

[Mattias]

On 23/02/14 11:18, miska knapek wrote:
> Hej/Hei agian,
>
> Mattias - you mentioned in the etherpad that you'd like to see the
> stream happening through some FLOSS tool. 
> This would of course be very interesting to do.
Yes, my reasoning is that we're working with opening data, thus I
believe we should communicate via open protocols & technologies. Perhaps
we even can make open data out of it!
> So, some of the good things about something like Google Hangout - and
> dear folks, feel free to disagree and correct me here (I'm open to
> suggestion ;) - is that we can see a picture of one another most the
> time, and that we have a shared chat.
> Perhaps a minimum is that we at least hear one another all the time.
This is possible. However, what I'm wondering is if we really need to
see live video stream of everyone?
> Mattias - might you have the kindness to suggest how we might be able
> to do this with Floss tools - I'd be very happy to hear ;)
Yes. If we don't need videoconferencing, voice conferencing & chatroom
through Mumble would be enough. There are lots of public & secure
servers we can just hook up to. I personally think this is enough, video
is bandwidth heavy at least on server-side with any open/closed
technology as it is today.

If we need videoconferencing (& ability to stream to browsers), the
JitsiVideobridge would be suitable.
Links:
Voice-only - http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
Video - https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiVideobridge
Streaming to browser (Firefox Support Coming) -
https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitMeet

I personally don't have access to servers right now to set up SIP-server
to provide the videobridge. If anyone do please feel free to look into
how to deploy it and we could connect through that. OKFN could possibly
set this up in the IT-infrastructure for the organisations' volunteers.
> Thanks and all the best,
>
> miska
Best,
Mattias
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