[kwlug-disc] FLOSS-friendly, usable webconferencing

Chamunks chamunks at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 12:47:28 EDT 2020


https://gitlab.com/Deamos/flask-nginx-rtmp-manager


On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:42 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jitsi is a total CPU hog, my laptop fan sings very loudly when I
> participate in a Jitsi session. FB Messenger is what my daughter uses all
> the time on her venerable T420s laptop and that fan does not ramp up much
> and she says here CPU utilization never goes past 28%(she's a bit of a tech
> geek).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Singh
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:36 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> The issue is that most of these are "conferencing services", rather than
>> "conferencing products".
>> If we accept this premise as a restriction (i.e. no usable FLOSS product
>> that we can self host), then it becomes: which ones are multi-platform
>> enough.
>> I assume that at a minimum it should run on a Linux desktop, and maybe
>> Android phones too.
>>
>> I use Google Hangouts with some family as a means of video and audio
>> conferencing. Works well on Android. Works from Firefox on Xubuntu too,
>> but is kind of a CPU hog there.
>>
>> I am told that Facebook Messenger works well too, and that its size and
>> resources were reduced recently. However, this requires me to go back
>> to social media, which is something I have avoided for the past several
>> years, and happy that way ...
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