Calls with more than 8 people are also no problem. I might experience the inevitable “Can you see me? Can you hear me?” dance for 2-3 minutes, but afterwards, things go relatively smoothly. I have about 4-5 calls per day, mostly on Jitsi, and rarely have problems. Jitsi-Meet in a 10-person team - it just worksįor LaceWing Tech’s daily grind, Jitsi-Meet has all we need: screensharing, mute/unmute audio and video, chat, “raise hand”, tile view (as opposed to speaker view), and more. We will continue to test as the tool improves. Nextcloud Talk: we do not recommend using Nextcloud Talk (yet!) because it is painfully unusable.We tested Wire’s ‘Teams’ product for multiple-person video chat and it did not offer enough additional features to be worth the cost. Wire: we use the free Wire version for our team chat and 1-1 video calls.Jitsi-Meet is perfect for day-to-day work because it is simple, has just what we need, and uses less resources. BigBlueButton is best for presentations and events because it is more powerful, more stable, and has more shiny features - but it takes a lot more resources. There aren’t *that* many open source video conferencing alternatives and only two are good: Jitsi-Meet and BigBlueButton (see diagram, credits: Swecha).īoth are open source and usable, but good at different things. It’s open source, easy to use and has all the features one needs for everyday work and meetings. We at LaceWing Tech have the same problem as everyone else - how do we meet online in a sustainable, user-friendly, yet secure way? We spent a few months testing various tools and eventually settled on Jitsi-Meet. How we manage online meetings at LaceWing Tech Goodbye, Zoom! Open source video conference tools
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