[chiglug] Fwd: Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

This project [0] seems like it might be worthwhile and useful for a lot
of folks . . . it seems that there are at least a few (?) webrtc-based
free software alternatives to Google Hangouts, but implementing them is
non-trivial and perhaps not neatly documented for interested users. It
seems like working on a project like this (where we work to automate
setup and configuration of the service on a cloud server) could also
help us if we wanted to allow remote participation for some of our
talks.

[0] https://github.com/jangouts/jangouts 

The server component is currently only packaged for OpenSUSE (did I
capitalize that correctly?), but the build instructions are well
documented.

I'd be interested in getting something like this set up, and it seems
like it could be helpful for a lot of folks if we were able to get it
going in an automated fashion. Would other folks be interested in this?

Jim

P.S.  This all comes about via an email thread on the GNOME Foundation
mailing list. For interested parties, the conversation starts here:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2015-December/msg00014.html 

----- Original message -----
From: "Germán Poo-Caamaño" <gpoo at gnome.org>
To: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre at mecheye.net>, rms at gnu.org, Debarshi
Ray <rishi.is at lostca.se>
Cc: foundation-list at gnome.org, desktop-devel-list at gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:06:34 -0800

On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 12:56 +0000, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> The problem is that we already have an existing method that uses non 
> free software that is easy and does not require expert help to host 
> or join. What we were asking for is an alternative free software 
> service that provides a similar setup experience to the non free
> solution.
> 
> Telling us that you have experts who can help set it up does not 
> instill confidence in your solution.
> 
> If there is no free solution that has a similar easy setup experience
> , perhaps the GNU project should invest in building such a service.

Jangouts might be something worth to give a try and keep an eye on it.

It is a self-hosted solution that uses WebRTC and JavaScript. It has a
MIT license.

https://github.com/jangouts/jangouts

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
http://calcifer.org/


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