[TriLUG] Video Conferencing Software

[Michael Wright]

Just to be clear, XMPP federation support is being killed off. XMPP clients
will continue to work.


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Tarus Balog wrote:
> > Any open source alternatives?
>
> Are you really committed to your solution being a Web-based UI? What I
> think you want is an XMPP server and a set of vetted-by-you clients that
> support Jingle[0] and play nice with each other. My understanding is that
> any XMPP server that meets your (non-video) needs will do fine, as the
> video support is all on the client end. This is based on cursory reading
> not experimentation/testing, so take with appropriate doses of salt. My
> XMPP server experience is with Openfire and my XMPP client experiences have
> been with Pidgin and Adium in the last few years. I haven't done video with
> any of the foregoing, but possibly others on this list have and can speak
> to that. I see that the company behind Openfire has a web client, but I
> also see that it looks rather stale and doesn't do Jingle. None of the
> implementations[1] I've found easily are Web-based, but you've already
> found something and I see this demo that I wouldn't put any credentials in:
> https://symlynx.com/jingle.html. More poking around turns up other
> hilariously outdated/abandoned stuff like this:
> http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/index.php?title=Java_Jingle&oldid=7398
>
>
> I hope others have good answers, because I was curious enough to spend
> awhile digging and came up short. Is this worth a hack day?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cristóbal Palmer
> cmpalmer.org
>
>
>
> [0] Interestingly Google, who are now killing off XMPP support as they
> push people into Hangouts, are the ones who created Jingle and published
> libjingle under a BSD license. See
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol) for more.
> [1] Eg. http://xmpp.org/about-xmpp/technology-overview/jingle/#impl-client
>
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