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Re: [Sheflug] Jitsi

Hi Perry,

That was a really fascinating video. I liked the lagrange point description
at the end and how it can change a project and his quote "Work with what
you have rather than what you wish you had"

John

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 10:18, Perry Ismangil <perry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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]   "
> >
> >
> >
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