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Organizzare una teleconferenza con 250 partecipanti utilizzando unicamente software open-source?

Si può!

La settimana scorsa abbiamo organizzato un incontro online assieme alla Commissione europea: Il primo passo verso una “Roadmap” sullo sviluppo dei circuiti integrati liberi ed open-source:
https://wiki.goit-project.eu/index.php?title=Open-source_silicon_and_EDA_workshop_2024

Abbiamo utilizzato #BigBlueButton anziché #Zoom per tutelare la #privacy dei partecipanti. Il servizio ci è stato offerto da https://think-modular.com ed ha funzionato benissimo.


Is your school forcing you to use #Zoom, #Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? Freedom is important to education. Read about freedom-respecting choices at https://u.fsf.org/311


The hosted Jitsi service that many people in the Fediverse appear to prefer over, say, Zoom is operated by 8x8, a NASDAQ-traded public company.

I wonder how this makes Jitsi somehow more acceptable to the Fediverse than Zoom. Yes, I understand that Jitsi has an open-source implementation, but if you use a commercially-operated freemium service like https://meet.jit.si that appears to make very little difference re privacy etc.

What am I missing?

#Zoom #Jitsi #Fediverse


[Edited with corrections and citation below]

#Zoom just* changed their terms and conditions to include using anyone's video and audio for training #AI with no option for opting out. You too can help train #deepfake s!

Living with a disabled spouse, I used Zoom a lot to get through the ongoing global pandemic.

What alternatives are out there for remote teaching/meetings?

[* Evidently changed by the March 31, 2023 terms of service, but I didn't notice until yesterday.]
[Citation: Paragraph 10.4 of US terms of service here: https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/ ]
[Thank you for all the suggestions! I had to mute the conversation because of the overwhelming replies!]


If your educational institution is still using #Zoom, especially in light of their policy change to use/sell your content to train #LargeLanguageModels (#LLMs), it's doing the wrong thing. Digitally literate institutions (a rare & precious thing) already use #BigBlueButton (#BBB) which is #LibreSoftware & substantially better for educational applications. If you want to trial it, talk to us - we've been making our instances available for institutions to use since Covid: https://oer4covid.oeru.org


Zoom is a horrifying company with a long history of causing mayhem and exposing their users to different types of extreme risks, from serving Israel (denying Palestine groups use of Zoom) to installing a web server on Macs that had Zoom installed (which *Apple* had to remove).

Now, they've updated their terms of service to allow training of AI on user content; one can't opt out of this.

Don't user Zoom. Use Jitsi Meet or Matrix or other stable, free, and open-sourced solutions.

Zoom Terms of Service: https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

#zoom #SurveillanceCapitalism

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