<div dir="ltr">I should say this is on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 11:04, Chris Craig <<a href="mailto:kwlug.org@ciotog.net">kwlug.org@ciotog.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've been using Zoom for many months (a year?) at work without using the client - I've never installed the client.<div><br></div><div>I do everything in chromium (including initiating meetings). The only thing that's annoying is chromium always wants to run xdg-open, which I have to dismiss before saying "open in browser" or somesuch.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 09:18, CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I know at work it's a PITA when vendors send us Zoom meeting invites.. We have to install the client, work our way around the firewalls, etc., then afterwards uninstall the client and scour our hard drives for any leftover bits and pieces..</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://alternative.to" target="_blank">alternative.to</a> had a decent review of jitsi (which I haven't used yet, so I don't know from personal experience) at <a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/jitsi-meet/reviews/" target="_blank">https://alternativeto.net/software/jitsi-meet/reviews/</a> ... I notice also that jitsi can use Slack logins, and several of us got Slack accounts courtesy of Paul recently...</div><div><br></div><div>I confess that I've gotten comfortable with using MS Teams at work on my work Windows laptop, so I'm no expert when it comes to Linux alternatives. I know one of the guys at work got Teams to work on his Fedora laptop but it took some monkeying to get it right.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 08:58, Ben Albert <<a href="mailto:ben.code10000@gmail.com" target="_blank">ben.code10000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div>Hi all,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I attended a few meetings a while back. I just wanted to mention matrix/riot, which also integrates with jitsi meet for video conferencing.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ben</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 7:15 AM Brian Bentley <<a href="mailto:bhbentley@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bhbentley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><img alt="" src="https://app.mailtag.io/email-event/171b95f1-2b16-492a-acd3-b581c7e1ecd9.png" style="display: none;"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">An interesting article:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/233513/zoom-silently-sends-data-to-facebook" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/233513/zoom-silently-sends-data-to-facebook</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Brian</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 6:29 AM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div>Yes, there is a 40 minute limit unless the person initiating the conference pays. Also, you need the native zoom client to initiate a zoom conference. People joining in can use a web browser.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Now where is that open source peer to peer solution that is reliable and easy to use for non techies??</div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, at 4:14 AM, Sandeep Johri wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="gmail-m_2129058517593359944gmail-m_2444006102051337620gmail-m_1326717916228919327m_5428252452686876351m_5904327626667411457gmail-m_-3306750828092117905qt"><div>I did install the Zoom .deb package on my Debian (stable) desktop.
Everything seemed to be working fine - however as I was setting up
my profile I got the following message <br></div><div> <br></div><div> [Uplevel Your Meetings with Zoom Pro<br></div><div> Your Zoom Basic plan has a <b>40-minute time limit </b>on meetings
with 3 or more participants. Upgrade now to enjoy unlimited group
meeting minutes.]<br></div><div> <br></div><div> I'm guessing others have figured out how not to be restricted with
this time limit (someone may have a pro account) - however thought
I'd share.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Thanks<br></div><div> <br></div><pre cols="72">From:
Sandeep Johri<br></pre><div>On 2020-03-26 10:26 p.m., Doug Moen
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><pre>It is a shame that Zoom is becoming the standard
<br></pre></blockquote><pre>I know; we should all be using open source, decentralized, peer-to-peer video conferencing software instead.
Doug.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, at 1:59 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
<br></pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On Linux, I have only been able to get it working with the client
software. Somebody sends me a Zoom link and then it prompts me to open
that link with the plugin.
It is a shame that Zoom is becoming the standard, but if we didn't
want that we should have been born into a different timeline.
- Paul
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 01:34:00AM +0000, Doug Moen wrote:
<br></pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Thanks, Paul. Zoom seems to be catching on with my crowd, so we've been using Zoom for social get-togethers. So far it only works for me on my mac laptop in the Chrome browser. It doesn't work for me in Firefox, but I have so many security- and privacy-protecting browser extensions loaded that it's not surprising, and I haven't actually tried to get it working on Linux.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, at 12:20 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
<br></pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Okay, I verified that the Zoom plugin for Linux does work on Ubuntu
18.04. I tested Zoom with Charles today, and we were both on Linux
computers.
(That does not mean I am announcing that we are holding the KWLUG
meeting on Zoom. I just wanted to answer Doug's question.)
- Paul
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