Computing On The Edge - 202342

Conferencing with Jitsi

I just recently needed a quick tool for making conferencing calls, and I went for Jitsi.

They have an open service up, but also downloading and installing it on some random Linux machine is a rather quick matter.

They have mobile clients for Android and IOS.

I always had it back of my mind and kept tabs on it every now and then.

But now I see from the web client on Linux it is also possible with ease to share screen, with the selection of the specific window or the entire screen...

I guess this is the power of open communication standards.

But, to put it bluntly, I don't understand corporate users, why on earth would you be using instead something more restraining and privacy-defying like Zoom, or MS Teams or... shall I say Slack ?

Other than the privacy aspects, the real pains with corporate messaging tools is them being closed up in a silo; communication within a single tenant somewhat makes sense, but crossing the borders, having a person from one tenant communicate with someone from another one, maybe another company, gets just plain weird.

You can have internal telephony systems, but they use the same phone to call outside and order pizza.

With corporate conferencing is like if you need to call someone on another system, you just have to throw away your phone, and buy one from the same company as the receiver.

It's like this that you end up having to install teams,telegram, skype, whatsapp, zoom, discord or $deityknowswhatelse on power-hungry devices.

Definitely, not the best possible scenario.

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