Skype is good, but have you considered tinychat? You can login with google, facebook and just as a guest. <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 2, 2014 3:13 AM, "Bob Jonkman" <<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 <a href="https://jitsi.org/" target="_blank">https://jitsi.org/</a>; 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: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-YGw3bgB_s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-YGw3bgB_s</a> There's the open source Big Blue Button <a href="http://bigbluebutton.org/" target="_blank">http://bigbluebutton.org/</a> 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: <a href="http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/" target="_blank">http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/</a> Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/videocalling" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/videocalling</a> 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 <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> 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" <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2013/2013-11-28#line-48" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2013/2013-11-28#line-48</a> -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </blockquote></div>