[teampractices] Hangout alternative: appear.in

[Tomasz Finc]

Very interesting. Thanks for the heads up and let us know how it works.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> http://appear.in/ is a WebRTC videoconferencing site hosted by Norwegian
> telcom Telenor. It works absolutely fine for people on Linux. Although the
> source code isn't openly licensed, appear.in doesn't require that the user
> install a proprietary plugin, so it's better on that count than Hangout.
> And, like chatb.org, it does not demand a login.
>
> Pluses:
> * ability to "claim" a room, kick people out, etc.
> * not Google
> * public API http://appearin.github.io/ - and they're open to feature
> requests
>
> Minuses:
> * only works right now in recent Firefox, Chrome, and Opera
> * screensharing only works in recent Chrome versions
> * no built-in video capture
> * They recommend keeping conferences at <9 participants, "as this can cause
> the application to crash because of the number of connections being handled
> by the browser. The main limiting factor is the bandwidth of the
> participants, as everything is streamed peer to peer."
>
> I'm going to try using appear.in for more of my ad hoc and 1:1 videochats.
>
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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