[pp.int.general] PPI GA Prague / Video Conference System for remote delegates

[Rok Andrée]

Wolfgang:

A few developer teams at my place of work use this: http://vox.io/ for
daily meetings. I have not used it myself but i hear good thing about it.

Lp
Rok Andrée
Piratska stranka Slovenije - Slovenian Pirate Party



On 28 December 2011 08:59, Wolfgang Preiss <w.preiss at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 28.12.2011 04:54, schrieb Richard Stallman:
>
>  Don't some Pirate Parties oppose the use of data formats that restrict
>> users or impose proprietary technology?  A principled organization
>> needs to avoid using the methods it campaigns to put an end to.
>>
>> What alternative is there?  The most obvious alternative is -- no
>> streaming.  Make recordings, and post them later in Ogg formats or
>> Webm.  Chat using IRC.  All this is easy to do.  So don't I have not
>> offered you an alternative.
>>
> We had this discussion already one year ago, I am a proud owner of the
> certificate "Bashed by Stallman"
>
> I am surprized what methods you are suggesting - "do it my way or don't do
> it at all" - and that is not what I am doing. I am working on a system that
> tries to suit most people, even you. So I already explained, that you can
> follow the stream (we are not talking of the video conference system yet)
> using vlc and the rtsp stream option, without the need to use proprietary
> technology on your own machine. But I guess that is not enough for you.
> There must not be any other alternative than ogg, there must not be a
> support for flash uers, users who have no idea about free software, and
> just use a computer "out of the box" as they get it in the store, equipped
> with the lates windows version. However this goes against my personal idea
> of political transparancy.
>
> This means to lower the burden to gain information to the lowest possible.
> And this leads to provide a system which is usuable for anyone who owns an
> internet connection and a computer.
> If your principals do not allow to watch the stream (I have no idea it
> there is a free player supporting RTSP) I guess you have to wait until
> someone takes the recording, converts it to ogg and supports it on a FTP
> system which only runs with free software.
>
> Once again: Livestreaming and video conference system are 2 different
> things.
>
> Oh I am also using thunderbird. Do your principals allow to even read this
> message? - and yes this question is meant seriously.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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