[open-science] jitsi and other open source communication tools

[Jenny Molloy]

As per Nagarjuna, who set up the BigBlueButton instance we'll be trying out
for the Asia-Pacific call:

"BBB currently has the limitation of dependence on flash.  The developer are
working towards its dependence.   with that hope we started using it.  They
have moved audio to HTML5 using webrtc already.  Hopefully they will do it
for
video soon."
Link to plans: https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/HTML5

There are a few other calls coming up for which we can experiment with
different platforms!

Jenny

PS My own problem:
I'm using Crunchbang Waldorf and there is some issue with tawk and jitsi
obtaining permissions in Chrome/Firefox (I get the option in the browser, I
add permissions, it just keeps asking). The camera is broken but my
microphone works with most other platforms and through the Mozilla WebRTC
test platform so I haven't isolated the problem yet. It is probably
specific to my setup and I'll get there, so we can try them out on a call
I'm not hosting!


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:52 PM, William Waites <ww at eris.okfn.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:37:21 -0200, Raniere Silva <raniere at riseup.net>
> said:
>
>     > AFAIK, BigBlueButton requires Flash that can be unavailable in
>     > some OS.
>
> My apologies for not being able to make it this morning, I find it
> really quite difficult to do 8am at this time of year when it's dark
> all the time! No matter though, I would not have been able to join
> because of the Skype, and similarly with Flash...
>
> Jenny it would be interesting to know exactly what went wrong with
> meet.jit.si for you -- we regularly use it and have people with OSX,
> Windows, various flavours of Linux, tablets, and even people like me
> with unusual computing environments...
>
> -w
>
>
>
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