[olug] Call for Speakers

[Rob Townley]

Jon,

that details of that experience with JitSi would make a great talk.  Others
that want to implement it would learn from your experience.  I appreciate
that you  dedicate a great deal of time every month to this.

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 6:31 AM Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us> wrote:

> Jitsi was used for many many months but was difficult to get recording and
> streaming working easily and it crashed regularly, also video quality was
> usually low and made reading shared screens difficult.  I also tried
> setting up my own VM with a dedicated install of Jitsi.  I even paid for a
> 8x8 account for several months to use the paid version and issues still
> persisted.I decided to switch to zoom as I needed it for work and didn't
> feel I needed to do fixes each time I went to broadcast.
>
> Suggestion: if you'd like, you can stream your talk via YouTube and I can
> use OBS to pull in the feed and rebroadcast it.
>
> Jon L.
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022, 01:32 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> > Dave Thacker said on Wed, 11 May 2022 21:10:17 -0500
> >
> > >Thanks for offering Steve.   We have live meetings that are streamed
> > >via Zoom.   Our videographer spent many hours trying to OBS working,
> > >but couldn't keep up with the maintenance.
> >
> > If OBS stands for Open Broadcasting Software, I don't see how its
> > absence rules out Zoom's Open Source competitors Big Blue Button
> > and Jitsi.
> >
> > Besides being Linux friendly and also Windows, Mac and device
> > accessible, another advantage of Jitsi is that any attendee can share
> > his/her screen. So when an attendee mentions something going wrong, the
> > attendee can share his/her screen and show the problem, and afterwards
> > the presenter can take charge of screen sharing.
> >
> > > So we're using the big Z.
> > >Would that prevent you from presenting?
> >
> > Yes. Zoom is difficult on non-mainstream Linux distros, and pretty much
> > impossible without Pulseaudio, which I refuse to install.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm
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