FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FSF Now Offering Video Conferencing Service To Its Members

In aiming to promote freedom-respecting video conferencing at a time when other platforms like Facebook and Zoom are exploding in popularity as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the Free Software Foundation is offering a video conferencing system for its associate members...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FSF-Offering-Video-Conferencing

[lucrus]

Jitsi Meet uses JavaScript !!

So what?

[kpedersen]

Jitsi Meet uses JavaScript !!

So long as its not non-free Javascript, that is fine. We really can't help if developers choose stupid languages.

[S.Pam]

Jitsi Meet uses JavaScript !!

Is it even possible to to live video recording and webrtc without javascript? i.e. pure HTML?

[Danny3]

FSF should kindly request a donation from AMD for a couple of Threadrippers and build a few servers for more open source FLOSS projects that are pro freedom of speech, anti-censorship, privacy and decentralization.

[Orphis]

Is it even possible to to live video recording and webrtc without javascript? i.e. pure HTML?

The WebRTC implementation used by Chrome is open source and has a license that allows it to be embedded in other applications. So they could always make a native client around it if they wanted, free of Javascript.

[markc]

The issue for me is not that it is written in Javascript but that its server is primarily written in JAVA. I'd love to install it too but I've had a long term server and desktop policy of not using anything that is written in JAVA for the last 10+ years and I'm not going to change that policy just because I would like to provide a Zoom alternative. As it turns out the next update to Nextcloud Talk (ie; Spreed) will host up to 10 users so (whew) that will be good enough for my needs.

[tildearrow]

As it turns out the next update to Nextcloud Talk (ie; Spreed) will host up to 10 users so (whew) that will be good enough for my needs.

Is it possible to increase this limit for a self-hosted instance, or is it like a hard limit?

[markc]

Pretty well a hard limit imposed by the backend technology used. They have new HPC (high-performance backend) components written in Golang that will help but it's still an SFU system so to get zoom/jitsi like performance would require beefy servers using an MCU configuration. See this link below for an explanation of P2P vs SFU vs MCU...

https://bloggeek.me/webrtc-multiparty-video-alternatives/

[AdamOne]

Like any open source project participation is voluntary, entirely willing.