[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] GTALUG: COVID-19 Impact

[Alvin Starr]

Hmm.
If the call initiator mixes all the data for all the participants its 
not really distributed.
Its just a hosted service with floating hosts.
It would be a real problem if you wanted to initiate a large meeting 
while having a bad internet connection.


On 3/30/20 12:21 PM, Marc Lijour wrote:
> Jami: a few years ago a third-party study compared Skype and Jami. 
> Performance was comparable.
>
> One thing to keep in mind. Jami being distributed, the initiator of 
> the call will mix on his computer for everyone else joining the call.
>
> On Mon., Mar. 30, 2020, 09:01 Alvin Starr via talk, <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/29/20 7:33 PM, Marc Lijour via talk wrote:
>>     Jami.net
>>
>     Jami looks interesting and being distributed appeals to me.
>
>     I wonder how well it works in the face of people using limited
>     bandwidth connections with out traffic management.
>
>>     Zoom can do 100 with a reasonable subscription
>>
>>     On Sun., Mar. 29, 2020, 19:20 90ur1 90ur1 via talk,
>>     <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         I tried the free hangouts for  a non profit today.
>>         We had about 15 participants.
>>         Hangouts has it's limitations, we could not see more than 5
>>         participants.
>>         Raise hand feature not available.
>>         Background noise when many people talk at the same time..
>>
>>         Looking for a better solution.
>>
>>         Gouri
>>
>>         On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:57 PM James Knott via talk
>>         <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>>
>>             On 2020-03-26 03:10 PM, sean mancini via talk wrote:
>>             > How about a google hangout session?
>>
>>             How many participants?  I believe Hangouts has a maximum
>>             of 10, unless
>>             you get some extra cost business package.
>>
>
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