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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 saghul »

sthustfo wrote: post #15
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.

All seems to indicate we'll continue the same path.

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

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Post by lordCarbonFiber »

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.

If you don't care too much for video conferencing why not use something like Mumble[0]. Super simple to install, super easy to maintain (even as your org grows and security rules get complex), supports as many users as you have bandwidth and quality is stellar and the code is open source.

I feel sorry for anyone that has been stuck with Skype anytime after 2007.

[0] Mumble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumble_(software)

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

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Post by kabes »

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.

Bit of an unrelated question, but do you have an overview / idea of how Jitsi SFU compares in terms of features and performance to well-known cloud providers like Tokbox.

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

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Post by williamstein »

Jitsi is awesome! We were using https://appear.in for video chat in https://cocalc.com, but appear.in made dramatic changes recently to greatly increase the friction in dynamically creating chatrooms. It was so bad, that we had to quit using appear.in, and thought we might have to get rid of video chat altogether. However, after searching, I found jitsi, which completely solves our problems, and is overall much better, scalable, and robust than appear.in was for us. We currently use jitsi's free hosted chatrooms (just go to https://meet.jit.si/[make up anything here]) and you get a chatroom created on the fly, but with Jitsi we have the option to also easily host on our server if need be, since it's open source. In any case, huge +1 to Jitsi , the team behind it, and the companies (Atlassian and 8x8) that are supporting the development of such fantastic open source infrastructure!
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