Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by fragmede on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:42PM
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It's weirdly hidden but if you go to meet.google.com and make a meeting, others just need the url to join, no faffing about with connecting to other users in gmail. It needs a corporate gmail account to use though.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom
by InvaderFizz on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:47PM
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Needs a Corp account to setup and approve non-invited attendees.
You do not require a google account at all to join a Meets session, but someone in the session with a valid invite will have to approve your entry.
I test this quite often with incognito tabs to have multiple participants for room setup and testing.
Ah-ha! Google Hangouts Meet is indeed the GSuite video conferencing solution, complemented by Google Hangouts Chat, the GSuite Slack competitor. Google Hangouts is "deprecated" but still alive, and with a plain-old gmail account I don't see an option to use Hangouts Chat nor Hangouts Meet, only Hangouts. As a user in a GSuite org, Chat and Meet exist, and plain-old Hangouts text messages are mirrored in Chat, but the video conferencing is still weirdly separate from Meet.