[liberationtech] So there is no good video-conferencing solution, but what is everyone at LT using?

[Stardust Doherty]

Whenever I try to use Jitsi for groups over 2-3 persons, there are 
almost inevitably technical issues that cause the meeting to bomb and 
some people don't seem to be able to get their cameras to work with it 
at all (while they can make it work with zoom). Jitsi also doesn't have 
features that the groups I'm with need in order to conduct large-scale 
performances (hundreds of participants) with live streaming. So, we use 
Zoom. I wish I knew of a free, open-source alternative that actually 
functions at scale. I'm all ears.

In solidarity,

Stardust

On 6/29/20 08:53, Denver Gingerich wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 08:48:57AM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote:
>> I do not know why it did not occur to me before, but Zak just told me, why
>> don't we just ask you directly what you all use for video conferencing?
>>
>> We are all struggling here trying to find the best solution, a holy grail
>> of sorts, perhaps one of you has already found it?
> I use the Jitsi Meet instance hosted at https://meet.jit.si/ for pretty much everything.
>
> If there is a meeting with an especially large number of people, then I use BigBlueButton.
>
> Both options are fully free-as-in-freedom, and tend to work as well or better than their proprietary competitors.
>
> Denver
> https://jmp.chat/
>