[Wikimedia-l] How lovely live communication works worldwide

Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 10:21:09 UTC 2013


Hi,

I will try today, for the first time, Palava.tv. Don't know if it's any
good, but it is run by a German non-for profit that rely on donations only
(thus similar to our sustainability model).

If it works well enough it might be worth keeping on one's shortlist. Will
let you know.

Dimi


2013/12/5 Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> 2013/12/4 Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider at wikimedia.ch>
>
> > Am 03.12.2013 23:33, schrieb Tilman Bayer:
> >
> >> > Note that this solution is still based on proprietary software, in
> that
> >> it
> >> > requires users to install a Flash plugin.
> >>
> >
> > well, BigBlueButton is completely open source, including the flash
> > applets used.
> >
>
> Except that it appears the required Flash version is not available under
> Linux, except if using the proprietary Chrome.
>
> Back then in April I extensively tested BBB - the found issues were
> reported to the developers.
> <https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/issues/detail?id=1479>
> <https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/issues/detail?id=1243>
>
> These issues will not be fixed, given the current work done with HTML5 +
> WebRTC.
>
> --
> Jean-Frédéric
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