[p2pu-dev] [Madlug] WebRTC

[Alison Jean Cole]

Should BBB be recommended in the help desk?
I have been hesitant, as many groups often switch to a hack that works
better, i.e. skype + etherpad.

Would love to get a tutorial rolling on the EASIEST way to communicate with
a diverse groups of participants (diversity in connection, tech literacy,
etc).

ALISON
new.p2pu.org/en/alison/ <http://p2pu.org/users/alison>





On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt at gmail.com>wrote:

> For P2PU, a browser based conferencing system would be terrific. We've
> experimented with a variety of stand-alone or flash based options and there
> isn't currently a great product that is open (or even free of charge) and
> let's us do all the things we'd like.
>
> BBB is probably closest, and we are hosting an experimental server at
> bbb.p2pu.org - but it has some issues and would require serious effort to
> integrate more fully into p2pu.org.
>
> Fingers crossed in anticipation for the XMPP hackers out there to come up
> with something new and better ... P
>
> On 3 June 2011 00:53, Douglas Whitfield <
> whitfield at opensourceplayground.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:51, Jesse Thompson <
>> jesse.thompson at doit.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> The reason why A/V hasn't caught on with other XMPP services is because
>>> clients haven't implemented the A/V part at all, or in a way that works
>>> across all clients and across all platforms.  My hope is that this WebRTC
>>> stuff can be leveraged by the developers of open source web-based XMPP
>>> clients. If that happens, then yes, it will be a major game-changer for
>>> closed networks like Skype.
>>>
>>
>> The above is essentially where I was going with this.
>>
>> I didn't say this in my first message first time because I've had Skype on
>> the brain with the podcast I co-host, but I was thinking web-conferencing
>> more generally too - not just Skype.  There are a lot of Flash
>> video-conference implementations (and things like UStream) out there and I'm
>> hoping this can make some of that go away.
>>
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