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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 2020 12:05:47 +1100
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reccomendations of conference / party audio video software ?
Message-ID:  <cbe12144-a287-74e2-a580-747a822484c3@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202003211607.02LG6uRK015846@fire.js.berklix.net>
References:  <202003211607.02LG6uRK015846@fire.js.berklix.net>

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On 22/03/2020 3:06 am, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi ports@
> Any reccomendations of conference / social group party chat server software ?
> 
> As much more of the world goes into lock down & social distancing, ie
> not meeting friends at the pub / restuarant etc on Saturday night
> etc, BBC has shown some social groups have arranged a matrix of 10
> to 20 faces from cameras on each of 10 to 20 screen, so groups can
> chat virtualy, & drink localy @ home.
> 
> That needs servers. Doubtless there are big commercial firms offering,
> but if some of us think it may be interesting adding such software
> to our FreeBSD servers for use by friends, Any reccomendations what
> to add from ports/ ?
> 
> Might it all be in https://www.freebsd.org/ports/multimedia.html
> or more likely scattered ? Keywords to search with ?
> 
> What about client apps on android, apple & MS
> ('cos most friends are non tech & dont run BSD or Linux PCs etc)
> 
> What about bandwidth per user, dont want to impact server hosts.
> 
> If most of this has been asked before, an URL to a FAQ would be fine thanks.
> 
> Cheers
> --
> Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux http://berklix.com/jhs/
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Hi Julian,

A few of us are sorting our a couple of test/eval instances of NextCloud 
Talk and Riot.IM with Matrix for AV/conferencing for various use-cases 
including FreeBSD community oriented stuff.

Feel free to hit us up off-list if you'd like more info or be in that loop



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