Preparing for the Video Chat meeting on 23 January 2014

[Seb Lemery]

Tinychat.com
On Jan 2, 2014 1:01 PM, "LP" <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tiny Chat, tiny chat & tinychat does not appear in Ubuntu Software ?
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> On 2 January 2014 10:08, Seb Lemery <seblemery at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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