[Wolves] next Virtual Meeting, one after 23rd September

[Adam Sweet]

Hi Mark

As John said, we tried it out ourselves for the first month or two of
lockdown. It works well with 2-3 people but it was pretty glitchy with
more than 4-5 as different people would lose audio or video or freeze
entirely at different times so we'd have people constantly dropping in
and out as people tried to recover their audio/video. I also found it
wouldn't work in Chrome, but it would in Firefox, despite the opposite
being supported, though that could have been specific to Ubuntu using a
containerised snap package for Chrome/Chromium browsers.

Jitsi was my personal preference since it's Open Source but it wasn't
practically usable. I understand Birmingham LUG also used Jitsi and had
the same issues.

Chris, who hosted one of the instances we used said it had seen some
improvements as it had been more widely used over the last 6 months but
he hasn't updated his in a while so those improvements are not readily
available to us.

Despite not being open Source, Zoom has worked perfectly every time and
I'm not aware that anyone has had problems getting set up for one of our
calls so I'm not sure what we'd gain by going back to Jitsi, though I'd
be interested to know how much it's improved in recent versions.

That said, Jitsi themselves run their own hosted conferencing platform,
so you can run your own Jitsi conference without needing somebody to run
Jitsi for you:

https://meet.jit.si/

Let us know how you find it if you try it out. Especially interested in
how you get on with 5 or more people.

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On 04/10/2020 14:52, John Alexander via Wolves wrote:
> Chris has Jitsi Already  it was trialled quite a bit at the start of the
> lockdown  and it had problems especially where folk were on limited
> bandwidth.
> I know this has been worked on over the last few months... What they
> have done and how well it works I dont know ?
> 
> It would be interesting to try it again but it's a bit of a pain to do
> the install so it would depend on free time of others unfortunately
> 
> JA
> 
> On Sunday, 4 October 2020, 14:15:05 BST, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint
> via Wolves <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi could we try out https://jitsi.org/ looks good but not tested it out
> in wild with novice users it quite hassle talking ppl threw settings up
> zoom.
> Just b nice to know the limitations of jitsi?
> 
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