So. How 'bout that BeerConf?

[Laeeth Isharc]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 19:00:29 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 at 13:43:30 UTC, Ethan wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 June 2020 at 12:37:15 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Check the NG for the first time in a couple of weeks, and see 
>> replies for online beerconf. This pleases me.
>>
>> Midsummer is this weekend, but I guess we can delay it a week 
>> to give Iain a chance to prepare for beer. My birthday is also 
>> next week, so I can use that excuse too.
>>
>> Any suggestions for video conferencing software? I assume no 
>> one wants to install the security nightmare that Zoom 
>> represents (I haven't). Slack supports video calls, but we've 
>> discovered a limit of around 15-20 participants. Which may not 
>> be a problem at all really. So perhaps the dlang Slack is 
>> going to be the best place to do this.
>
> Try jitsi from jitsi.org. it is open source and free with no 
> time limit. It does everything zoom is capable of but more 
> secure

Brave browser nightly now comes with video calling built in.  
They took Jitsi and removed telemetry and changed room key to 43 
chars so harder to guess.  I haven't played with it much yet 
though.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1266054046147678208?s=19