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Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by mstade on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:32PM (#23481738)
Jitsi is great! If they can figure out a good webinar solution it could be an absolute killer. As it stands, it's (in my opinion) really just useful for small scale interactive meetings at this point, not 100+ participant events.

It's really great as a face-to-face solution though, where Zoom and many others are actually kind of overkill.

Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by nix23 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:50AM (#23487407)
I cant imagine being productive with 100+ peoples in a video-conference (not even real ones), are you making raves/partys over Jitsy?
Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by mstade on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:15AM (#23496849)
I should've made it clear when I say "events" I mean more webinar style events. 100+ participant meetings where everyone is an equal participant isn't useful, but that sort of thing isn't uncommon if you're holding all hands calls or annual shareholder meetings etc.
Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by nix23 on Friday June 12, 2020 @05:07AM (#23497412)
Yeah but then a streaming solution with a separate voting/chat/messaging solution is the way to go.
Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by mstade on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:32AM (#23497831)
Well, no – not if you still need audience participation with video and/or audio. Things like annual/quarterly meetings and such where people have a right to speak etc. It's really not that different from a typical video conference, just that the moderator has controls to mute/unmute people and participants can't unmute themselves. Polling/voting/chat features I reckon are secondary I reckon.
Re:Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after ... by paulryanrogers on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:29PM (#23483848)
BigBlueButton may be better for that scale. It's interesting this desire for a one size fits all video conference.