Re: Feedback on Zoom & Jitsi for CCG Meetings

Manu,

I sincerely appreciate the work you have done to make Jitsi feasible, but I
have to think you may have lost sight of the purpose of the community,
which is to focus on VCs and DIDs and credentialing technology, not
re-build infrastructure. I will simply copy a comment someone shared with
the chairs:

"I don't think it's important to use an open tool like Jitsi. Zoom is fine.
We're not the group that's building an open teleconference platform; we're
the group that's building DIDs and VCs. We don't have a problem using PDFs
(a proprietary format); why should we have a problem using a proprietary
teleconference tool?"

I am committed to making this group and our work items accessible to the
broadest community. I refuse to allow us to get distracted re-inventing the
wheel.

We have bigger fish to fry, especially if we are going to be serious about
increasing global participation.

-Heather

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 1:21 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 11/12/20 6:32 PM, Heather Vescent wrote:
> > The chairs are gathering feedback about using Zoom and Jitsi for our
> > regular Tuesday CCG call.
>
> The poll does ask the community what their preference between the two
> conferencing systems is... and the "volunteer to maintain Jitsi" is
> misleading -- it's really "volunteer to maintain the CCG
> infrastructure", which includes a variety of things other than Jitsi
> (which shouldn't take a lot of effort once things are stable). I don't
> know why Jitsi maintenance will take 2-12 hours a month if the system
> works?
>
> I expect the outcome is that most of us will show up no matter what
> system is used because we value the discussion over the infrastructure.
> I also expect that it will be difficult for people to volunteer to
> "maintain Jitsi" just as it will be difficult for people to volunteer to
> "maintain the CCG infrastructure" -- it's a vague ask.
>
> Can we please reword the survey so we can capture people's preferences
> on our infrastructure?
>
> Some suggestions:
>
> 1. How often do you attend the Tuesday CCG meeting?
>
> 2. Given equivalent functionality, do you prefer to use an open
>    source or closed source for our video conferencing system?
>
> 3. Given equivalent functionality, do you prefer to use an open
>    standards or proprietary solution for our video conferencing
>    system?
>
> 4. What features are important to you in a video
>    conferencing solution?
>    * Works in my Web browser
>    * Native client
>    * Stability
>    * Phone-based dial-in
>    * SIP and VoIP connection options
>    * Accessibility
>    * Other: ____________
>
> 5. Are you willing to volunteer to maintain the tooling
>    that the CG uses to hold meetings and generate
>    meeting minutes (jitsi, scribe tool, system administration,
>    documentation)?
>
> 6. Are you willing to financially support the CG tooling?
>    * No
>    * Yes, $25/year
>    * Yes, $50/year
>    * Yes, $100/year
>    * Yes, $___/year
>
> 7. If you plan to volunteer, please list the things
>    you feel comfortable helping with:
>    * Server Maintenance
>    * Software Maintenance / Coding
>    * Minute Cleanup/Publishing
>    * Updating Documentation
>    * Other: ____________
>
> The above would give us a better idea of preferences in the community.
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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>
>

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