On 1/31/25 02:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Thing is -- you always have some. Use it. Sometimes it's direct,
sometimes via advocacy groups, the best being to combine both.
...
Most of the time, the "normal" size is 30s to 40s of users. And I have
seen BBB perform surprisingly well there. Two examples
- our local bi-monthly free software meet, which is hybrid (about
five local, about 20-30 remote). Big Blue Button works like a charm
- the local music school, which started teleconferencing during
the pandemic, which has a self-hosted and specially tuned BBB
instance (for low latency: musicians tend to care about this).
That's just in our small town.
Cheers
That's very interesting, thanks for the info.
The only thing I have any experience with is Zoom. I've only used it
because I needed to. I wouldn't recommend anything to others that I had
never used for myself, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it to a
professed newbie who was only asking a simple question like "should I be
worried about installing Zoom from the company's website."
One thing I wonder about is how many of the others on this list who have
been recommending various free software in place of Zoom have actual
experience with the packages they are recommending?
But, the organizations I am related to that use Zoom are not installing
software, they are buying a service. And when that started five or ten
years ago I have no idea whether there was anyone selling services
similar to Zoom using free software. Zoom has done a great deal of work
to tailor it's service to our university's needs. I have no idea what
they are being paid for their services but I'm sure it's in the many
millions.
Don MacDougall
