Preparing for the Video Chat meeting on 23 January 2014

[Seb Lemery]

Skype is good, but have you considered tinychat? You can login with google,
facebook and just as a guest.
On Jan 2, 2014 3:13 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...
>
>
> [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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