Re: Video Conference

[Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>]

Yes it does help and thank you Maxim!

My almost only hope for a viable citizens-driven Free Software development hinges on clean separation of specification and implementation, modularity and composability.   Workers in our crazy economies have so little spare time (unless they are rich) - therefore, we need to create the software development model optimized for spare time programming😄

-Yasu

> On Apr 4, 2022, at 11:58, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Disclaimer: My employer spearheads the development of Jami.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> From time to time, I think about audio/video mixer (.i.e. video
>> conference software like BBB or Jitsi) , with the intension of making
>> it highly modular that it can be freely remixed and reinvented by
>> volunteer participants.
>> 
>> Is anyone interested?   Or is can you think about something that already exists?
> 
> You may be interested in trying out Jami; there's a package for it in
> Guix that works rather well, and there's also a jami service that is
> useful to easily keep a rendezvous point online on servers, for example.
> I've made available such a rendezvous point to the community, feel free
> to try it; it's reachable at 'rdv-jami-guix'.
> 
> About making it modular; I know there's now a plugin system in Jami that
> enable people to author plugins to implement things such as changing the
> background (green screen), applying a blur filter, etc.  The
> architecture of the software also makes it easy to create new clients
> for it, as the core library is a distinct package (libjami).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Maxim