[teampractices] Hangout alternative: appear.in

[Alolita Sharma]

Yes - definitely interested in the results from these alternate choices.
Hangout limits are a problem for us.

Best,
Alolita

Alolita Sharma
आलोलिता शर्मा
Director of Engineering
Internationalization / Localization
Wikimedia Foundation


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> I'm super curious to hear what your experience is like with this.
>
> In my mind, the fact that there's even a 15 person limit with hangouts is
> a pain. The scrum of scrums meeting for instance often has about 15
> participants, and we've been bit before by the limit. So not being able to
> support 9+ participants well is a huge minus.
>
> One thing I really like about hangouts is that I can use it easily on
> mobile devices - this is something I'd really like to see in alternatives
> we explore.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:17 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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