[kwlug-disc] FLOSS-friendly, usable webconferencing

Chamunks chamunks at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 12:39:28 EDT 2020


I just spun up a RocketChat server recently and that’s pretty great.
There’sa thing called RTMP-Flask-something-aweful on gitlab that is similar
to Twitch.tv but is self host able that I’ve been casually contributing
docker advice throughout its early development cycle.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:31 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My daughter's at UW and my son's at UG, both are off for a week, and o
> nthe 23rd will be able to be back on campus expect for the face-face sort
> of classes -- the issues is ALL their classes/labs are face-face!
>
> My kids' solution is to take what the Unis offer up for remote class
> participation and augment that with Facebook/Discord discussions with
> classmates.
>
> My daughter came up with the idea of using Zoom to do full-on via video
> participation after "classes" with her mates and I expect that will be very
> successful as it is a real popular platform for this sort of thing, albeit,
> not FLOSS.
>
> FWIW.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Singh
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> Say (not so hypothetically) that we were going to virtualize the next
>> few LUG meetings. Is there a videoconferencing solution that is
>> relatively FLOSS-friendly and does not suck?
>>
>> I can probably set up a computer running the software at work, and
>> then arrange for people to connect in. But since Raul presented
>> BigBlueButton a decade ago, I have no idea what is good these days.
>>
>> At the least we would need the ability to present audio and show
>> slides. Having interaction via chat or even voice might be nice.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
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