OSS Video Conference solution?

[Jerry Feldman]

On 07/26/2012 03:33 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hey, guys.  I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution
> in-house, by strong preference Open Source (for both philosophical as well as
> financial reasons).  I've found a couple of promising candidates (e.g., check
> out Openmeetings, over at Apache Incubator), but they seem to lack some subtle
> things (admin manual, solid user manual, the Flash client seems to crash, the
> interface is counterintuitive...).  I'd love to leverage Asterisk, which, since
> 10.x, has the underpinnings for videoconferencing, but I don't see anything
> (OSS) that takes advantage of it.  I'm completely open-minded as to an OSS
> solution so long as:
>
> - It's not overly hard to use
> - It allows video from multiple sources
> - Its client runs on Mac and Windows (Linux is good, but not a deal breaker)
> - A minimum of documentation would be wonderful
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Take a look at Big Blue Button http://www.bigbluebutton.org/
A few years ago I wanted to use something like this for Boston User
Group meetings, but we ended up with Microsoft Lync because our
president was a Microsoft employee. The last time I looked BBB was more
of a video conferencing system, but it looks like they are now targeting
the classroom..

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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