Hello Marco, the best way to know is to try [1] before you install or buy anything.
[1] http://demo.dataved.ru/openmeetings/ -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://dataved.ru/ +7 916 562 8095 [1] Start using Apache Openmeetings today, http://openmeetings.apache.org/ [2] Join Alexei Fedotov @linkedin, http://ru.linkedin.com/in/dataved/ [3] Join Alexei Fedotov @facebook, http://www.facebook.com/openmeetings On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Marco Barbàra <jab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Openmeeting users, > > I am a potential new openmeeting user that is seeking information. I'd > like to establish a way for a little community spread over the > Internet to have an electronic meeting (it should be no more than 30 > people), and I'd like to do with a free software tool. Openmeetings > looks great, but I'd like to know experts' opinions on the feasibililty > of what I have in mind. > > What is in my mind is a very-very-poor-man solution: I could install > openmeetings at home on my Debian machine, with the needed services > running (ssh and what else?), configure my home router to accept > requests on ports 5080, 1935, 8088, activate some dynDNS configuration. > Whith all these fragile things working, other people should be able to > connect my server and we could graciously have our webconference, > since, if I don't go wrong, client-side software should do all the rest > for others. What am I missing? (because I'm sure there is something) > > My questions: > 1. Could I rely on the fact that people microphones are all supported? > 2. Real problem: bandwidth. My upload rate is no more than 0.4 Mb/s and > I suspect this is definitely not enough, but I really have no idea. > Only voice shoud travel, though. > > 3. CPU usage? > > 3. Is there some kind of (cheap) hosted service I could take advantage > of? > > 4. What other solutions could I implement (possibly using > free-as-in-freedom software)? I suspect that for an audio meeting there > could exist a less featured than openmeetings > > Thanks all for the attention and accept my apologies in case I > inadvertently misused this mailing list. > > Best regards > Marco Barbàra
