Tim Chown wrote: > > On 7 Aug 2019, at 06:34, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Linda Dunbar wrote: > > > Installing Jabber is not easy. You have to find specific servers to > > > download, and very often you are not really sure which one is legitimate. > > You do not need a Jabber client. You can use the WebRTC enabled Meetecho > > webpage for the session and chat there. It's "the jabber room". It nicely > > combines the jabber room (the chat window in Meetecho), the video feed and > > the notes. It works in any modern browser/OS on a desktop OS. FWIW, I had some issues with it in Brave on MacOS: The room video worked but the presentation video did not. Probably a security setting I had wrong... OTOH, it's not exactly a major hardship to fire up a different browser (Chrome in my case) and that worked fine. > Exactly; you can use MeetEcho to be "on Jabber". > > I haven't used a jabber client to participate in IETF jabber room for 3-5 > > years now. I only use Meetecho. I've jabber-scribed probably 30 sessions this > > way. > Same, though not so much scribing as professionals such as you :) Meetecho is what makes remote attendance possible for me. If I had to mess around with finding the latest working Jabber client/account/whatever in order to participate, TBH I likely wouldn't bother. This is not broken; let's please not try and fix it, and most definitely not with Slack. Slack is almoat as bad as Jabber, but for completely different reasons. Ned
