On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:00 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
BlueJeans is "open source" though I can't offhand find their source code
by
googling for "bluejeans source". ;)
I've dug around a bit, and also cant find anything to suggest that they are open sourcing any parts of their solution, or anything resembling bjn providing development or support for existing open source technology components.
Their own java classes are using namespace "vc.bjn", and googing that doesnt lead to anything.
Here is their recent github organisation:
https://github.com/BlueJeansNetwork
This looks like an older one:
https://github.com/bluejeansnet
And here is the only use of "vc.bjn" in github, by an employee
https://github.com/Aldaviva/tailor
Other employees have "operations"-like repos
If the organisation is a credible contributor to open source, I havent found it yet. I hope that WMF included "open sourciness" in their product selection criteria & evaluation, so their should be some document describing how BJN is contributing to open source. It would be great if that can be shared.
It's being used mostly for larger meetings because a) it has a larger
limit
for number of participants than Google Hangout and b) it seems to be more open than Google Hangout. ... Can't answer on if anybody's paying anything as I don't know, but personally I would hope we are helping to fund their open source development. ;)
If BNJ isnt actually open source, here is an open source solution that we could use and help fund as required (e.g. buying their commercial offerings so that WMF Engineering/Ops doesnt need to support it)
From the FAQ: If you have a session with 20 users and all share their
webcam (yes, this is possible) will generate 400 streams
Pretty much sounds like a deal breaker to me. The primary use case of bluejeans is for meetings where we need a hundred people in the same channel. The difference with bluejeans is it manages the streams on the backend and sends just one video stream to each user (afaik).
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