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Jitsi has been doing great recently, and it's pretty amazing how many of my now-at-home-friends now reach for Jitsi by default (as opposed to Zoom, which used t

by Vinnl 7y ago

Jitsi has been doing great recently, and it's pretty amazing how many of my now-at-home-friends now reach for Jitsi by default (as opposed to Zoom, which used to be the case) after having been introduced to it just recently. I've never managed to "convert" so many people to something so easily :) However, I'm wondering if anyone on here has become, or works somewhere that has become, a customer of 8x8 [1], the company behind it [2]? They supposedly support Jitsi primarily to 1) get contributions that also make their product better and 2) to advertise their product. I'm somewhat worried about whether 2 is working, and hence whether Jitsi will continue to receive their support. (I'm not affiliated or anything btw, just a happy Jitsi user.) [1] https://www.8x8.com/ https://www.8x8.com/ [2] https://jitsi.org/user-faq/#heading8 https://jitsi.org/user-faq/#heading8

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cdolan 7y ago
I gave my impressions on 8x8 in a different comment below. It got really long and touched upon some things outside the scope of your question so I made it its own top level comment.
shravj 7y ago
Although I'm not technically a 8x8 customer, I do use 8x8 Video Meetings which is powered by Jitsi Meet. 8x8 Video Meetings seems to be a completely free and separate product from the rest of 8x8's conferencing solutions and does not require any sort of existing or new 8x8 subscription to use. From what I can tell, it just seems to be a Jitsi Meet instance running on 8x8 infrastructure with 8x8 branding tied in. See here: https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing
throwaway7281 7y ago
Open source one of the most empowering paradigms. Here is a list of people and organizations running their own servers: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instance...

by Vinnl 7y ago

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cdolan 7y ago

I gave my impressions on 8x8 in a different comment below. It got really long and touched upon some things outside the scope of your question so I made it its own top level comment.

shravj 7y ago

Although I'm not technically a 8x8 customer, I do use 8x8 Video Meetings which is powered by Jitsi Meet. 8x8 Video Meetings seems to be a completely free and separate product from the rest of 8x8's conferencing solutions and does not require any sort of existing or new 8x8 subscription to use. From what I can tell, it just seems to be a Jitsi Meet instance running on 8x8 infrastructure with 8x8 branding tied in. See here: https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing

throwaway7281 7y ago

Open source one of the most empowering paradigms. Here is a list of people and organizations running their own servers: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instance...