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Re: [Sheflug] Jitsi



I have met Emil Ivov the creator of Jitsi several times at real time
communications technical conferences - here's a recent podcast episode
discussing Jitsi history

https://saas.group/podcasts/open-source-saas-acquisition-changes-and-challenges-with-emil-ivov-jitsi/

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On Sun, 23 Feb 2025, 12:48 Richard Ibbotson, <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The thought occurred to me that someone out there might not know much
> about Jitsi which is the video conferencing suite that ShefLUG and
> ManLUG used for two years during the pandemic to run our meetings.  It
> was a bit wobbly at times but it was better than no meetings at all.
> Since that time Jitsi has come along further. I have used Cisco Webex
> myself which I think is very good but there was a review of Jitsi in New
> York where it came second to Webex...
>
>  From Wikipedia....
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi
>
> "  Reception and Usage
>
> In an April 2020 test of video conferencing services, US product review
> owned by the New York Times Wirecutter recommended Jitsi Meet as one of
> its two picks (after the more feature-rich Cisco Webex which it found
> preferable for large groups and enterprises), stating that Jitsi was
> "easy to use and reliable" and that "in our testing, the video quality
> and audio quality were both great — noticeably sharper and crisper than
> on Zoom or Webex".[57]
>
> During the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, 8x8 reported 10.4 million
> active users globally per month.[58] Several organizations and
> universities have set up their own Jitsi based video conferencing
> services, among them fairkom with fairmeeting, hosted on a scalable
> kubernetes cluster in the EU[59] or Goethe University Frankfurt.[60]
> The non-profit-organization Digitalcourage discourages in 2023 the usage
> of the free meet.jit.si service, as it is not free of tracking, requires
> authentication at either Google, GitHub, or Facebook and is hosted at
> AWS which is not considered GDPR-compliant.[61][62][63]   "
>
>
>
> --
> Richard
>
>
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