[GTALUG] téléconferencing options, was GTALUG: COVID-19 Impact

[Znoteer]

Hi (lurker in Montreal, here),

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 04:06:26PM -0400, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 14:42, Rouben via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Long-time lurker here.
> >
> > I’d be happy to provide virtual hosting for GTA LUG proceedings and
> > meetings via Zoom or MS Teams. I work at UofT and I believe I can get GTA
> > LUG meetings hosted on our infrastructure.
> >
   [snip]
> 
> Our last board meeting we used the "libre" option, Jitsi, for which Alex
> has set up a VM.  Alex seems to be proposing to spin up an instance of
> that.  I suggest getting in on the conversation about that.
> 
> To my mind, having more possible solutions is better than having fewer,
> although we'll need to pick something specific pretty soon :-).
[snip]

The local Debian group tried out BigBlueButton a couple of days ago.  It's
similar to jitsi and is also opensource.  We were hitting an instance in Italy
so there was some lag on the audio, though the video seemed to be pretty
instantaneous.

https://bigbluebutton.org/

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