What’s up with the name? I’m never going to get my boss on board with a malware-looking name like that.
Ironic that you would suggest "Jitsi" as a (stereo)typically bad name with a username of "jimbob". I guess we all have our own prejudices.
Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
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Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#72It's very disheartening that when you try to connect with firefox, it says you should use chrome. This is a direct stab in the heart of the people who would favor it over zoom because it is free software.
I use it with Firefox and it works just fine
What version of Firefox? What OS?
Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Hangouts: Google account. Need to individually invite other Google accounts. Hangouts (now Meet) is better geared towards GSuite orgs where you're already logged into Google since you have to be to access almost all of your other internal company/school resources, including gmail. It also solves the contacts problem since everyone will be in the company directory.
> Hangouts (now Meet) Ah-ha! Google Hangouts Meet is indeed the GSuite video conferencing solution, complemented by Google Hangouts Chat, the GSuite Slack competitor. Google Hangouts is "deprecated" but still alive, and with a plain-old gmail account I don't see an option to use Hangouts Chat nor Hangouts Meet, only Hangouts. As a user in a GSuite org, Chat and Meet exist, and plain-old Hangouts text messages are mir…
It's weirdly hidden but if you go to meet.google.com and make a meeting, others just need the url to join, no faffing about with connecting to other users in gmail. It needs a corporate gmail account to use though.
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#74What’s up with the name? I’m never going to get my boss on board with a malware-looking name like that.
+1 this is an awful name if you want to get anyone serious on board. Seems super scammy.
Again, like the "jimbob" guy above who was objecting to the name Jitsi, I find "dandigangi" to be rather odd and unsettling.
If we're going to make names be the cover of the book, then we must all realize that almost any name will be uncomfortable to some audiences.
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#75Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Conclusion: Friends preferred Hangouts. ... but why? Is it just a familiarity thing?
> familiarity That's the disheartening part. Most hadn't used Hangouts before, one person suggested it due to social distancing, ~1hr into Hangouts call as we're struggling to add another member I introduce Jitsi and paste a link into the group chat. Used for ~15 minutes, then dropped and the manual invite process for hangouts began again - organizer couldn't find the option to generate a sharable link to a Hangouts…
>"I don't like it, it's weird."
To be fair, it is sort "busy" in regards to the UI and the stuff surrounding the screen.
Hangouts is comparatively less daunting.
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I found that it had some issues with people connecting via the web clients. Is there a way to mitigate that or is that just expected with the software?
Do you mean some parties are unable to connect? There are some open issues, limitations, and Jitsi Meet does not officially support all browsers. Here is the supported list: https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/blob/master/modules/... For example, Brave Browser is still not fully supported: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/3978
FWIW, it works great on my Chromebook, meeted up with myself on my Android. Even used x86 Bromite browser on Chromebook, and even blur background worked after a slight delay. Impressive.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#78Is the Android App open source? I haven't been able to find the source code for the play store app on the jitsi github account.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Hangouts (now Meet) Ah-ha! Google Hangouts Meet is indeed the GSuite video conferencing solution, complemented by Google Hangouts Chat, the GSuite Slack competitor. Google Hangouts is "deprecated" but still alive, and with a plain-old gmail account I don't see an option to use Hangouts Chat nor Hangouts Meet, only Hangouts. As a user in a GSuite org, Chat and Meet exist, and plain-old Hangouts text messages are mir…
It's weirdly hidden but if you go to meet.google.com and make a meeting, others just need the url to join, no faffing about with connecting to other users in gmail. It needs a corporate gmail account to use though.
Needs a Corp account to setup and approve non-invited attendees.
You do not require a google account at all to join a Meets session, but someone in the session with a valid invite will have to approve your entry.
I test this quite often with incognito tabs to have multiple participants for room setup and testing.
Re: Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
#80To the authors, if they see this: I'm trying to use this to call my mother and we are both just looking at our own faces. I've confirmed -- via separate video call on phones -- that we're at the same URL, both look connected, and both have camera permissions. There's no indication that anything is wrong on either of our computers.