Re: ditch voip/sip

Heather, I agree - something which reduces the friction for most people to
join is important. I personally had often trouble to attend calls because I
need SIP only for these calls, not in any other context. Many communities
seem pretty happy (at least for now) with Zoom - it's used in Hyperledger,
DIF, CCI, etc.

Manu, I don't think there is a vendor lock-in risk with Zoom or OtterAi.
-> all recordings from Zoom can be stored in mp4 format and transcripts
chat & Otter in generic text formats that could be stored on a wiki, etc.




On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:26 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 5/28/20 10:53 AM, rhiaro wrote:
> > Also I've had good success with hosted jitsi - which is open source, and
> > can be self-hosted - with medium-sized groups. Their hosted version
> > should support 35 people well (with video, I presume more with audio)
> > and I think if you self-host it and set it up right it supports a lot
> > more (I haven't tried this yet though). Jitsi also has screensharing,
> > chat and hand-raising features.
>
> Agreed, was just thinking along the same lines. If folks want to move to
> another platform, let's please not move to a proprietary solution (Zoom
> + otter.ai).
>
> Jitsi is open standards, open source, supports automatic transcription
> via jigasi, and would (potentially) integrate more cleanly with existing
> tooling. It would probably not cost much more than what we're doing
> right now and DB would be willing to pick up that cost.
>
> Here's the thing that's always stopped us -- someone has to commit to
> setting this system up and running it for years (the current system has
> been in place for over 6 years now).
>
> I remember when AOL was going to be around forever and folks migrated to
> their services entirely? Remember Google+, all that content, gone.
> Accessibility and archival matter. What happens when otter.ai fails, do
> we still have all of our transcripts on infrastructure we have control of?
>
> My fear is the community is going to go for the easiest choice and get
> vendor locked in w/o considering the ramifications of what that means to
> the archives and work output of this community.
>
> -- manu
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