Next IRC/VideoChat on 27 Feb 2014 [was: Preparing for the Video Chat meeting on 23 January 2014]

[Bob Jonkman]

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Hi Rouben: Yup, Google Hangouts seems to be the consensus for the
group.  The IRC/VideoChat we had on 23 January 2014 seemed very
popular indeed, to the point where we had people waiting to join
(Hangouts only let 10 people in at a time). Happily, some people
offered to drop out so that others could join.  I tried to keep up
with the Video chat by transcribing it to the IRC channel, but I don't
know how successful I was. You can catch the minutes from 23 January:

Minutes:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2014/2014-01-23#Meeting_summary

Full IRC Log:
http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-ca/2014/ubuntu-ca.2014-01-24-00.00.log.html

Partial video:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/113242521569190236474/albums/5972393387102310497/5972393391195472226?sqi=103177632744805958694&sqsi=9b9b5ea0-4af6-409d-86de-2b9045fe39eb
(sorry, my /tmp folder ran out of space)

+JeffSmith is setting up a Google Hangouts-On-Air for the next
IRC/VideoChat meeting (27 February, 7pm EST (-0500)). Hangouts-On-Air
streams the whole thing on YouTube, so we can have any number of
people view (although only 10 at a time can broadcast), and YouTube
will record the whole thing (Google has a larger /tmp than I do). Jeff
has set up an Ubuntu Canada LoCo page on Google Plus, where he'll post
the link to the Hangout-On-Air once that's available.
https://plus.google.com/116845700584173888571

I've started the agenda for the IRC/VideoChat at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/Next -- please add
anything interesting that you know of.

There's a LoCo event at
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/2706/detail/ Registration is
optional, but always appreciated.

- --Bob.


On 14-02-07 02:23 AM, Rouben wrote:
> I suggest Google Hangouts, since we can record the proceedings and
> maintain an archive on Youtube.
> 
> 
> Rouben
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Happy New Year Everybodeee!
>> 
>> At the last IRC meeting in November we came up with the idea to
>> try a Video Chat[1] for our next meeting on Thursday, 23 January
>> 2014.
>> 
>> But what video chat software should we use?
>> 
>> The Ubuntu Developer Summit meetings use Google Hangouts. But
>> that's not FAIF software, and requires people to have a Google
>> Plus account.
>> 
>> José Antonio Rey (LoCo Council member from Peru!) and I tried to
>> video chat over the open standards XMPProtocol (I used the Jitsi
>> application from https://jitsi.org/; don't know what José used).
>> We could see each other, but didn't get sound to work. But given
>> a bit more time, that could be fixed. The Jitsi demo of a video
>> chat looks pretty impressive: 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-YGw3bgB_s
>> 
>> There's the open source Big Blue Button
>> http://bigbluebutton.org/ although that looks like it's intended
>> for a classroom more than a video chat.
>> 
>> And, of course, there's Skype and Facebook, but both of those
>> are non-FAIF and require accounts on their services.
>> 
>> Skype: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/ 
>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/videocalling
>> 
>> So, over the next week let me know what your preferred video
>> chat software is. I'll tally up the results next Friday (10
>> January).
>> 
>> 1st choice = 3 points 2nd choice = 2 points 3rd choice = 1 point
>> 
>> Choose from: Google Hangouts XMPP (Jitsi, Pidgin, Empathy, &
>> other apps should interoperate) Big Blue Button Skype Facebook
>> Video Calling
>> 
>> Once we've picked the  video chat software maybe the local
>> chapters could hold an Ubuntu Hour. That would give people a
>> chance to iron out any kinks with the software.
>> 
>> We can discuss the video chat on the Ubuntu-ca mailing list. The
>> list is a great place to ask for help if you can't get your
>> webcam or microphone working, or need help installing software.
>> If you're not already on the Ubuntu-ca mailing list you can join
>> at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
>> 
>> I'm sending this message to several Ubuntu chapter mailing lists
>> as well as the Launchpad Ubuntu-ca membership, so please pardon
>> me if you should get this multiple times.
>> 
>> See you all online!
>> 
>> --Bob, who wonders if Chat Roulette is still a thing... 
>> bjonkman at sobac.com
>> 
>> [1] "ACTION: Schedule a video chat for Ubuntu Canada" 
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2013/2013-11-28#line-48
>>
>> 
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