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8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Post by dastx »

mxstbr wrote: post #9

It's interesting how Atlassian is selling many its offerings, first HipChat/Stride to Slack[0] and now Jitsi. I'm curious why that's happening, was there some sort of leadership change that's trying to focus on "core business"? [0]: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-s...

Not sure why hipchat/stride IP was sold, but I think Jitsi is a direct result of it as Jitsi's tech was used for the former sold systems, and thus Atlassian does not need Jitsi anymore.

Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Post by chrisco255 »

mxstbr wrote: post #9

It's interesting how Atlassian is selling many its offerings, first HipChat/Stride to Slack[0] and now Jitsi. I'm curious why that's happening, was there some sort of leadership change that's trying to focus on "core business"? [0]: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-s...

No, Atlassian has the same leadership. In this case it was part of the Stride/Slack situation, since Jitsi was part of HipChat/Stride.

Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Post by cmroanirgo »

saghul wrote: post #6
AndyMcConachie wrote: post #2

I've been futzing about with VoIP since the late 1990's. First as a developer and test engineer and then as just an interested party. When ZRTP came out I was excited, and then Jitsi was developed and I was interested. But everytime I try Jitsi it has terrible quality issues. About a month ago I evaluated it again, hoping it would have changed since I last evaluated it 2-3 years ago. But it still had terrible quality…

Hi there, Jitsi dev here: note that the Jitsi desktop client (the one which supports SIP) is no longer actively developed, it transitioned to being community maintained. We have been focusing our efforts on Jitsi Meet for past few years: https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/

I'm in the same boat, as I'm sure a few are...we want to get rid of Skype and Jitsi seems to be the best way, but most people don't care too much for video conferencing. Jitsi Meet has waaaay too much overhead if voice to voice groups is all that's needed, especially if you want to self-host.

Is it feasible that the old Jitsi gets a rebirth? It'd be popular, I'm sure.

Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Post by saghul »

cmroanirgo wrote: post #13
saghul wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there, Jitsi dev here: note that the Jitsi desktop client (the one which supports SIP) is no longer actively developed, it transitioned to being community maintained. We have been focusing our efforts on Jitsi Meet for past few years: https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/

I'm in the same boat, as I'm sure a few are...we want to get rid of Skype and Jitsi seems to be the best way, but most people don't care too much for video conferencing. Jitsi Meet has waaaay too much overhead if voice to voice groups is all that's needed, especially if you want to self-host. Is it feasible that the old Jitsi gets a rebirth? It'd be popular, I'm sure.

It sure is feasible, but it would have to come from the community. If you are interested in trying to move it forward, please join our community: https://community.jitsi.org/ and start a discussion!

Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Post by sthustfo »

saghul wrote: post #7

Interesting to see this here now :-) I'm part of the Jitsi team, and made the transition from Atlassian to 8x8. I'm happy to answer questions if any, to the best of my ability / capacity.

any thoughts on how much resources 8x8 would be devoting to continued development of Jitsi? Given that you had pretty free run at atlassian.

Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Post by TheCondor »

tn890 wrote: post #4

Never heard of 8x8 before. Anyone who used their services care to comment on them?

I’ve had them as a voip provider for about 10 years. We have a landline number that my family has had forever parked with them with a flat annual rate. I’d rate them as medium, there are some rare issues but it mostly works well. Residential voip seems like it’s dead though, I wouldn’t be surprised if they sunset the service.

Re: 8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian

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Post by ghotli »

cmroanirgo wrote: post #13
saghul wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there, Jitsi dev here: note that the Jitsi desktop client (the one which supports SIP) is no longer actively developed, it transitioned to being community maintained. We have been focusing our efforts on Jitsi Meet for past few years: https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/

I'm in the same boat, as I'm sure a few are...we want to get rid of Skype and Jitsi seems to be the best way, but most people don't care too much for video conferencing. Jitsi Meet has waaaay too much overhead if voice to voice groups is all that's needed, especially if you want to self-host. Is it feasible that the old Jitsi gets a rebirth? It'd be popular, I'm sure.

Can I hijack this thread briefly to ask about that one line: "most people don't care too much for video conferencing". Having worked remotely for maybe the majority of my career at this point my experience is the exact opposite and it seems like the one place wherein we got acquired that didn't have a culture of video chats but was big enough to have multiple cities of offices suffered greatly from the simple fact that teams didn't work face to face when needed, and didn't have the tools to screenshare to collaborate. Body language, eye contact, and being able to look at the same thing when working together seem to me like a pretty fundamentally human thing.

I guess my question is that is it really something people don't care for? In my experience it's just vital and teams that don't do it appear worse off for it. Admitting my bias here though. ;)

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