[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

[Benjamin Tompkins]

I've never tried it, but there's also https://mattermost.com/product/

Not sure it it would be appropriate for this purpose.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:44 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

>
> Thanks to Jon, Ron Singh, and Mikalai for helping me test things out.
>
> I think we determined that Jitsi and Nextcloud talk are not ideal. Ron
> was correct that the application takes a LOT of CPU on the client
> side. On my old netbook I could not get any audio. Screen sharing did
> not really work. Ron was also unable to hear anything we were saying,
> even though he had his microphone and webcam shared.
>
> We also tried the demo server of BigBlueButton and that worked much
> better for us. Audio worked for everybody. BBB deals with PDFs really
> well. However, screen sharing did not work (which may have been
> resource limitations on the server).
>
> The next steps are to see whether I can make an in-house BBB server
> work, and test it on that. Otherwise we may just try the demo BBB
> server for our meeting.
>
> There are a couple of other options, but I am not sure how much
> effort I will put into them. I think Rocket.Chat might be using Jitsi
> as well. There is an Apache project called OpenMeetings which might be
> worth a shot, but it is ugly. (My bandwidth for dealing with this is
> also somewhat limited.)
>
> - Paul
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:23:56PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > Ronald set up a NextCloud instance with its "talk" application (which
> > I think is just Jitsi).
> >
> > We probably cannot do stress testing today but we can do some
> > usability testing. Can you help? If a few people can join the call
> > tonight that would be nice. We can also do something tomorrow evening.
> >
> > The conference call is:
> > https://nextcloud.kwvoip.ca/index.php/call/srm7bfe9
> >
> > The password is: clusterssh
> >
> > Just join. Maybe I will hear you and reply.
> >
> > - Paul
> >
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