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

[Carl Karsten]

I'm intrigued.

chicken and egg - I would like to see it in action before I commit much
time to it.

can someone do a demo at a lug?  or just a quicky at ps1 tonight or
whenever.




On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:

> 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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