[Cialug] OpenMeetings

[Jared Brees]

Late to follow up, but yeah... I was going by the three requirements of:
 * Multiple Rooms
 * Resource content by room
 * Video conference for a room or all

Nothing in the OP mentioned FOSS being a requirement. If "OpenMeetings or the equivalent" is the requirement, I might say nested screen-sharing of webcams via VLC with Apache Guacamole or similar, because it'd likely provide a similar level of clunkiness, overhead, and setup time. 🙂

Given the three requirements in the OP, Zoom is an option (and if Chinese government influence was a concern, we'd see a lot less use of it by the federal government - but I digress). If FOSS is also a requirement, that definitely changes things a bit. If it were me and those 4 requirements were all I had to go off of, I'd probably hack something together with VLC and OBS and SSH tunnels on a bunch of machines.

If FOSS is *not* a requirement, but non-Zoom *is* a requirement, I'd 2nd Teams, or possibly Messenger, or Discord, or if I was really adventurous, trying to get Snapchat or Instagram to do it (but those last two would probably be failing endeavors).
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From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com>
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 00:30
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] OpenMeetings

It doesn't meet your foss requirements, but, another option is the free
version of MS Teams. It also now has Linux support as well.

I haven't found any FOSS projects that scratch all of your itches while
still being easy to use for the rest of your group.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:08 AM Brett Neese <brneese at brneese.com> wrote:

> Also, you outlined several requirements, and I described to you how to get
> those requirements using Zoom ("I have a conspiracy theory about zoom so
> it's off the table" was never a specified requirement.) So it's totally on
> topic and absolutely an alternative.
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 10:03 AM Brett Neese <brneese at brneese.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not a sales pitch, just advice. You are welcome to use whatever
> > software you wish for whatever reasons you wish. If I was your family,
> > though, I'd wish you'd have used, Zoom. ☺️
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 9:29 AM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 4 Jul 2020, Brett Neese wrote:
> >>
> >> > I concur, use Zoom.
> >> >
> >> PLEASE stop the sales pitches, .. I would never tuch software controlled
> >> by the Chinese government.
> >>
> >> The original topic was OpenMeetings ****LR THE EQUIVALENT***. If you
> can't
> >> stay on topic, don't bother to reply.
> >>
> >>         Lee
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