The Jami conferencing system
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The Jami conferencing system
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#2Jami has improved alot the last few years, and now I do also use it for my business SIP account. I will test out the new conferencing features with family soon, Zoom and Skype has never worked well for us.
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#3Anyone have some thoughts on Jami vs Jitsi? They're both pretty robust software at this point but there's not enough information out there on the edges of each relative to the other.
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#4Anyone have some thoughts on Jami vs Jitsi? They're both pretty robust software at this point but there's not enough information out there on the edges of each relative to the other.
Jami has native GTK/QT clients in my distro's (Arch) official repositories. Jitsi has an Electron desktop application that exists in the community-maintained repository (AUR). I haven't used either of them and my experience with Jitsi has been solely limited to the browser client. I'm going to try them now.
Re: The Jami conferencing system
#5Anyone have some thoughts on Jami vs Jitsi? They're both pretty robust software at this point but there's not enough information out there on the edges of each relative to the other.
Jami doesn't need a web browser, and doesn't need someone to set up a server, AFAIK.
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#6Jami has improved alot the last few years, and now I do also use it for my business SIP account. I will test out the new conferencing features with family soon, Zoom and Skype has never worked well for us.
MS Teams is the best way. Worth the dollars.
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#8Jami has improved alot the last few years, and now I do also use it for my business SIP account. I will test out the new conferencing features with family soon, Zoom and Skype has never worked well for us.
MS Teams is the best way. Worth the dollars.
Yes, it works well enough; but it's sometimes a pain, but not enough to move away
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#9When the pandemic started I remember Jitsi being talked about a bit as well (as an alternative to Zoom, which had all sorts of controversial issues when it suddenly became 'big'):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi
Some discussions that I found with a quick search:
Re: The Jami conferencing system
#10I just had a look at Jami now and I have to say they did a lot of things right when it comes to user experience which you don't typically see in open-source (and especially not in most GNU projects).
Going to their main website clearly gives you a "download" call to action with your current platform's logo implying it's available for your platform, and below the fold offers links to a broad selection of other platforms. It also happily supports mainstream proprietary platforms instead of insisting you should use Linux.
There is a focus on user-facing features and functionality, instead of focusing all on how free/libre or decentralized it is or some minor technical detail. These are good, but unless your software actually solves the user's problem, freedom or technicalities don't matter because they simply won't use it. I feel that a lot of decentralized social projects fall into this trap.
The website and UI of the clients (at least MacOS & iOS one - haven't tried the others) is also good enough. There could be some minor improvements to be made here and there (and obviously design is subjective), but overall it's a friendly, inviting design and color scheme.
I have to give them props for this, it's unfortunately not common in FOSS projects, but if there's a place I definitely didn't expect this it would be GNU.