[open-science] jitsi (Was Re: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology research topic on open science

Mon Dec 15 15:22:57 UTC 2014

Thanks William, that's really useful feedback.

We ended up on Skype this morning as I couldn't get https://meet.jit.si/ to
work with my OS, but I think that was a specific issue with microphone
permissions.
I am still keen to try it out and we are also probably trialling
BigBlueButton for the Asia-Pacific open science call next week, if anyone
has any thoughts on this do let me know.

I will try and add info on all of these options for call organisers and as
a working group we can come to a consensus on what works best for most
people.

Jenny

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:45 PM, William Waites <wwaites at tardis.ed.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
> Our research group is distributed in Edinburgh, London and Paris and
> with varying preferences for computing environment and we have been
> exercising various options for videoconferencing. The one that works
> the best is not jitsi the software that you download and set up as a
> SIP/XMPP client but the related jitsi the software behind the service
> at https://meet.jit.si/
>
> All it requires a Chrome-derived browser for HTML5 audio/video support
> and is a very credible alternative to Skype or Google Hangouts. Note
> that it will generate a unique URI for your conference, but you can
> just set one too, e.g. https://meet.jit.si/frontiers
>
> I would strongly recommend using that...
>
> Also note that this particular instance is the one that the developers
> set up, but it is perfectly well possible to create an OKFN one (and
> the School of Informatics is considering making one as well).
>
> Cheers,
> -w
>
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