I've not found it any less user friendly than others I've tried - mainly GoTo
Meeting, although I had a Zoom meeting tonight which didn't go according to
plan. Took me a while to work my way around it, then it lost my webcam and
finally it just closed. Thankfully when I restarted it managed to make the rest
of the meeting, although it was prone to freezing the video and the audio broke
up several times. Overall the image and sound quality seemed far worse than
Jisti (9 people on Jitsi and 13 on Zoom).
There is a Jitsi client written for Electron, but it doesn't seem to be
packaged so it is a case of downloading from Github.
Nice to 'see' you on Saturday.
** James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire <hampshire@???> [2020-05-16 17:49]:
> Hi,
>
> I joined the Jitsu today from a Linux Ubuntu 20.04.
> Using Chrome it cut me off after about 10 seconds, I tried a few times
> without any luck.
> I then tried with Firefox, and it worked fine. That explains the
> connecting/disconnecting that people were curious about.
> It was me trying to get on.
> It is my first time using jitsu. It is interesting that you can get
> voice working, and only later, you give yourself a "nick name" so that
> everyone can tell who you are!
> Its not the most user friendly product, but it is definitely user
> friendly enough so that everyone managed to get connected.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
>
>
>
> On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 17:10, Tony Wood via Surrey
> <surrey@???> wrote:
> >
> > Nice to see you all this afternoon and thank you all for your help with
> > my strange (intermittent) boot issue.
> >
> > It does seem that none of us had problems with 'jit.si' compatibility
> > with browsers - I used Chromium, others used Firefox and Chrome; all
> > worked happily AFAIK. Jitsi seems more robust than Zoom or Skype and
> > the lack of a time limit is a big plus, I think.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Tony Wood
> > (SLUG)
> >
> > On 16/05/2020 16:07, Mike Ray via Surrey wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I know this is a bit late now because it is approx 4 o'clock on Saturday.
> > >
> > > But with some initial mucking around I found Jitsi to be adequately
> > > accessible on both Chrome and Firefox under Windows 10 using the NVDA
> > > screen reader.
> > >
> > > Like Richard said, Firefox was better this month than last. Mozilla
> > > seem to be on a roll at the moment.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 16/05/2020 11:45, Tony Wood via Surrey wrote:
> > >> I'll go along with all that, Richard.
> > >> About microphone noise comments: my new webcam (brilliant video, faulty
> > >> microphone) has been returned and (same model) reordered. Highly
> > >> unlikely to arrive in time for today's meeting but my wife has offered
> > >> the use of her laptop (newly upgraded - SSD, now 8GB RAM better plug-in
> > >> speakers) and I might take up her offer.
> > >> Maybe see you later. :-)
> > >>
> > >> Tony Wood
> > >>
> > >> On 16/05/2020 06:29, Richard Crossley via Surrey wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> Welcome to the world of virtual meetings.
> > >>>
> > >>> So far Surrey Lug has found:
> > >>>
> > >>> * The URLs for the meetings are reusable, we used the same URL for May
> > >>> and April
> > >>>
> > >>> * We haven't had the equivalent of Zoombombing, but we do have a
> > >>> password that is only kept on-list not on the website
> > >>>
> > >>> * People drop-in and out as they like without issue
> > >>>
> > >>> * Firefox worked better in May than April
> > >>>
> > >>> * Warnings about noisy microphones can mostly be ignored
> > >>>
> > >>> * We had people on from as far afield as Hong Kong and Brazil with no
> > >>> noticeable lag.
> > >>>
> > >>> Good luck
> > >>>
> > >>> Kindest Regards,
> > >>>
> > >>> Richard C.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 16/5/2020 12:01 am, Paul Tansom via Surrey wrote:
> > >>>> Rather late notice, but there will be a virtual meet this Saturday 16th
> > >>>> May. The days and weeks seem to blend together at the moment - it was
> > >>>> suggested (a while back) that it was 2 NHS claps and 2 days to the next
> > >>>> meet!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The meet will be slightly later than normal at 2pm to give everyone
> > >>>> enough time to have lunch - virtual sandwiches aren't as filling!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> To join head to:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> https://meet.jit.si/plugmay
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm not sure whether Jitsi has issues with random people joining, but
> > >>>> just in case I will set a password of 'sat16'. If for some reason the
> > >>>> URL above has been grabbed I will update via the list and website (you
> > >>>> don't seem to be able to reserve them).
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I've used Firefox with my tests, but I have heard that some have had
> > >>>> issues and recommend Chrome or Chromium. There is also an app that you
> > >>>> will be asked to download if you are using Android or Apple (it is also
> > >>>> available through F-Droid).
> > >>>>
> > >>>> See and/or hear you there - so to speak!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Keep safe.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks,
> > >>>> Paul
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
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