Re: [LUG] Skype

To: DC LUG <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: [LUG] Skype

From: Grant Phillips-Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:15:42 +0000

Delivered-to: dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dcglug.org.uk; s=1570611962; h=Sender:Content-Type:Reply-To:List-Subscribe: List-Help:List-Post:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Subject:To:Message-ID:Date:From: In-Reply-To:References:MIME-Version:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=8ZIe1aFaYYbi76FQmDWHtuDW17CqTqni6oQSPlMMv2A=; b=N2hemEZajwmDVCMDQGFJ/zsg+A puyrlDlWYm1Nho9bgZpy/4Ghe/JAXW9Ds+yrmpXo4kA90hvQx3LV/8sKNndJd7MMlwzEeu/Cww3UJ l3+KSKMLRCGheSSJl1wDI8DsmMDcvgPwoKrvkGUNfMy/eYK7HBtQO8CjbfT7QmgSmOUI=;

Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=phillips-sewell-co-uk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=g3FsoZD6//YV9L2G4CqGWLU930jTegxbciDz6WHxBkQ=; b=GDZ8rKdqGy3OPA+kUF+5KpYCDuZbyGdbRu7es8Gbd7GUNfmiTn9sFcgyIcl4o9M7u1 WhE4lI72mpRsf6TTjBSV/wqPaDlN3N3VzBV6hQOAVvizkmctrYNrxjG7rW6/ox6lsKvn 6O7w5v3EmQl2u8c4CYdXNnRa7M2GhQDPHVKLGYzhLOIETAHSY01mforhga+zR5Oz/hAC PZPC9r5OuGl9ByRhxy3Qj4NN0ugvllO5xhXgXk5dV6g/u9AgnNLjrS70j0AYnK3S32I5 BcW7uj41p6LOnaxR0dK+S+D6aO9V9isoYNd8F/o1svJI50fRvggSPiDeIvliSXC6K3nk mT3Q==

On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, 14:04 Rod Sheaff, <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We increasingly use Zoom at work. It's closed source (or course) but
does have a Linux client, indeed did so before MicroSoft re-animated
Skype for Linux. In the meetings I've used it for, Zoom seems to have
been simpler to use and more reliable than Skype. I think Skype can be
used for groups, though I've never tried groups larger than 4-5 people.
Zoom has some ridiculously high limit.

BW

Rod

Skype can do multi-person video chats. I've only done so once before but it did work. I'm not sure whether it needs to start as a 1-to-1 and then either party adds the additional people.

I've tried to use Jitsi Meet a few times but it never seems to pick up my webcam.

I'm happy to use pretty much any platform going - indeed I've just signed up to Houseparty because my sister is now using it - but if there's a really good, solid, and functional Free Software video chat tool available, maybe we should be trying to use that in the group?

Grant. :)

Follow-up: Re: [LUG] Skype

From: Eion MacDonald

References:

[LUG] Skype
- From: Neil
Re: [LUG] Skype
- From: Rod Sheaff