Preparing for the Video Chat meeting on 23 January 2014

[LP]

Tiny Chat, tiny chat & tinychat does not appear in Ubuntu Software ?


On 2 January 2014 10:08, Seb Lemery <seblemery at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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