[EdLUG] EdLUG April 2020 : online over Jitsi

[Andrew Ramage]

This is what I get:

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to 
edlug-webmeetup.duckdns.org. If you visit this site, attackers could try 
to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

On 05/04/2020 21:01, Tai Kedzierski wrote:
> I'll second Thomas's assessment in principle - I've update the public 
> event posting to make that clear....
>
>
>
> In the meantime however I did try to set up a self-hosted 
> alternative.... Apache OpenMeetings (AOM), hosted on the very same 
> Sausage Cloud we'll be hearing about on Tuesday!
>
> Before we elect it for the meeting though, I would like to invite as 
> many people as possible to give it an Alpha test to be sure it is in 
> fact usable for everyone...
>
> 1. Go to https://edlug-webmeetup.duckdns.org:5443/openmeetings/ and 
> register an account. Please note that the confirmation email might go 
> to your Spam folder
> 2. At 4pm on Monday 6th of April , enter the Public Presentation Room 
> (should be listed under Rooms : Public)
> 3. Me or Nick will try to present their screen and talk a little. 
> Let's see how it holds up
>
> Any technical difficultiehats please message me directly
>
> Tai
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>
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>
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
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> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 22:07, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk 
> <mailto:thomas at kluyver.me.uk>> wrote:
>
>     As there doesn't seem to be any clearly superior alternative we're
>     aware of, let's go ahead and try using Jitsi on Tuesday.
>
>     I'll join with Chromium, and I'd encourage people to do the same.
>     I resent having to advise people not to use Firefox, but be aware
>     that your choice could affect everyone in the meeting. Hopefully
>     Firefox and Jitsi will be fully compatible soon.
>
>     Thomas
>
>     On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, at 15:12, Keith Wyse wrote:
>>     Hi folks;
>>     I used Jitsi today to video chat with family, and I found
>>     it very stable and clear. Much better than Skype.
>>     We were all using Android devices for the connection, so I didn't
>>     see the Firefox problem noted earlier.
>>     I want to join in with the meeting on April 7th as I haven't made
>>     it to a meeting in a long time.
>>
>>     HTH
>>     Keith
>>     Scottish Borders
>>
>>     On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 12:30, azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:azmodie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi All,
>>
>>         Gavin hendrys company Surevoip in aberdeen just released a
>>         braided version of jitsi and site mentions its encrypted.
>>         https://meet.surevoip.co.uk/ <https://meet.surevoip.co.uk/?>
>>           we could check this out.
>>
>>         Hes given talks on openldap for various lugs in the past.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Kris
>>
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>>
>>         On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 11:54, Gábor Majoros
>>         <mersaint at gmail.com <mailto:mersaint at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Someone would need to run it but - https://rocket.chat/?
>>
>>             Gábor
>>
>>             On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, 11:12 Thomas Kluyver,
>>             <thomas at kluyver.me.uk <mailto:thomas at kluyver.me.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>                 On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, at 16:51, Andrew Ramage wrote:
>>>
>>>                 I set up a link on my computer, but received a
>>>                 Browser warning.  Apparently Firefox is not supported.
>>>
>>
>>                 I see the same, and apparently one participant with
>>                 Firefox can cause issues for everyone in the meeting:
>>
>>                 https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
>>
>>                 It looks like there's progress, but it's a
>>                 disappointing sign of Chrome's dominance in the
>>                 browser space that Firefox support is a lower
>>                 priority even for open source projects.
>>
>>                 Are there any FOSS alternatives worth investigating?
>>                 Unfortunately, all of the tools I've used in this
>>                 space are proprietary.
>>
>>                 Thomas
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