On 01/29/2015 11:19 AM, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
On 28.1.2015 09:04, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
Google Hangout works like a charm. I use it every day with highly distributed teams. Drawback: the big brother.
Maybe I'm wrong but we work on an upstream project and everything we do is publicly visible, so no big deal from my POV.
I agree.
We also have a SUSE internal instance of OpenMeetings at http://137.65.69.121:5080/openmeetings/ Drawback: it requires Flash. Performance is not as good as Hangouts.
Yep, we have tested this with Ancor and, for instance Hangout scales the video according the current line bandwidth, in OM you have to set the video size. On the other hand, OM has quite "nice" playground for presentations, pictures, drawing, etc. That might be useful.
In my experience, those whiteboard thingies are not really that useful. Google Hangouts also has "apps" on top you can use for drawing and all that, but... On the other hand, sharing the screen is often quite useful. That's something you can do with Hangouts. Probably with OpenMeetings as well.
We could also install a Janus server and have something like this http://janus.conf.meetecho.com/videomcutest.html I based my last Hackweek project[1] on Janus and we did some test calls with pretty decent results. We would have full control on the UI (it's just some javascript). Drawback: we need a machine in NUE or PRG to host the server.
We have a machine in PRG but do we want to maintain our own solution when someone could do it for us? I myself prefer using some whatever-party's tool to setting up and maintaining our own - everything takes time. That's the same as maintaining our own Jenkins. Yes, we have nodes, but that's it.
I agree, but I wanted to offer a flash-free internal alternative. I think there is also an internal instance of Big Blue Button (which also uses flash, anyways), but I'm not sure.
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In the former openSUSE team we used Google Hangout in a quite spontaneous way. We had (and still have) a fixed virtual room (actually a hangout event planned for 2018) and we used the diary stand-up meeting or IRC to coordinate meetings there whenever needed. It was the logical and natural step after using the same room everyday for the stand-up meetings.
Fixed virtual room in Hangout? How? That could be helpful for Yast team as well.
As mentioned, the trick is to create an G+ online event in a distant future. The URL of the event is permanent and includes the link to enter the hangout room. If you invite some people to the event, they will not even need to bookmark the url, since it will appear in their list of upcoming events on G+. Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org