[Wikimedia-l] How lovely live communication works worldwide

Tilman Bayer tbayer at wikimedia.org
Tue Dec 3 22:33:30 UTC 2013


Note that this solution is still based on proprietary software, in that it
requires users to install a Flash plugin.

It would be interesting to learn about the experiences of Wikimedia France,
who has been replacing Skype with the entirely free Mumble, according to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange .


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David Cuenca <dacuetu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jan, please report the issues that you had to the maintainer of the
> instance or directly to:
> http://bigbluebutton.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali at wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>
> > We just did. Too many were not able to log in.
> >
> >
> > *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
> >
> > Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige <
> http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida
> > >
> > 0729 - 67 29 48
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/12/3 David Cuenca <dacuetu at gmail.com>
> >
> > > Maybe try this one?
> > > http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Micru
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine_wiki at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Somehow, I don't know how we get that happen, almost every time we
> use
> > > > live communication to communicate about projects to enrich and
> improve
> > > the
> > > > Wikimedia projects, something goes wrong in the communication.
> Besides
> > > the
> > > > usual problems of connecting to the internet, a lot of software
> issues
> > > > occur, then we have a microphone of someone that doesn't work in only
> > one
> > > > software programme, while it works in others, or we don't get sound
> out
> > > of
> > > > the programme, programmes that need an account but refuse you to sign
> > up.
> > > > From Google Hangout, Skype to Mumble, all have issues.
> > > >
> > > > I think it would be lovely to have a piece of software maybe hosted
> by
> > > WMF
> > > > that works for everyone to enable everyone to participate. Currently
> > > users
> > > > are excluded because of insufficient software and it takes too much
> > time
> > > to
> > > > get everything working. The key of the Wikimedia projects is that
> > > everyone
> > > > can participate, besides when it comes to live communication.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > > Romaine
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list
> > > > Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > > > Unsubscribe:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
> > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Etiamsi omnes, ego non
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wikimedia-l mailing list
> > > Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
> > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikimedia-l mailing list
> > Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
> > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Etiamsi omnes, ego non
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimedia-l mailing list
> Wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
>



-- 
Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB


More information about the Wikimedia-l mailing list