Zoom Service Blocked by China


Stephano Cetola
 

Hi All,

https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq

It would seem that on Monday China blocked Zoom, our preferred conference software.

This is an off week (luckily) for APAC meetings, so this should not immediately effect us.

I'd like to propose BlueJeans as a replacement. AFAIK, they support web clients (no binary needed), Android, and iOS. Also, I believe they will work well in China:

https://support.bluejeans.com/s/article/Premium-Access-for-China

Cheers,
Stephano

An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?
--Axel Oxenstierna


Laszlo Ersek
 

On 09/10/19 17:01, stephano wrote:
Hi All,

https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq

It would seem that on Monday China blocked Zoom, our preferred
conference software.

This is an off week (luckily) for APAC meetings, so this should not
immediately effect us.

I'd like to propose BlueJeans as a replacement. AFAIK, they support web
clients (no binary needed), Android, and iOS. Also, I believe they will
work well in China:

https://support.bluejeans.com/s/article/Premium-Access-for-China
Generally speaking, I'm fine with the BlueJeans platform -- I use my
company-issued PolyCom handset for dialing a "BlueJeans bridge" (using
an internal extension), and then I participate as a voice-only
participant. (I don't like installing proprietary browser plugins, and I
wouldn't enable video anyway.) AFAIR I can see -- consume -- screens
shared by others, in Firefox, without installing the plugin; so that
should work for me too.

Thanks!
Laszlo


rebecca@...
 

Another alternative might be Jitsi (https://jitsi.org/).

“Multi-platform open-source video conferencing
At Jitsi, we believe every video chat should look and sound amazing, between two people or 200. Whether you want to build your own massively multi-user video conference client, or use ours, all our tools are 100% free, open source, and WebRTC compatible.”

Rebecca Cran

On Sep 11, 2019, at 7:22 AM, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...> wrote:

On 09/10/19 17:01, stephano wrote:
Hi All,

https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq

It would seem that on Monday China blocked Zoom, our preferred
conference software.

This is an off week (luckily) for APAC meetings, so this should not
immediately effect us.

I'd like to propose BlueJeans as a replacement. AFAIK, they support web
clients (no binary needed), Android, and iOS. Also, I believe they will
work well in China:

https://support.bluejeans.com/s/article/Premium-Access-for-China
Generally speaking, I'm fine with the BlueJeans platform -- I use my
company-issued PolyCom handset for dialing a "BlueJeans bridge" (using
an internal extension), and then I participate as a voice-only
participant. (I don't like installing proprietary browser plugins, and I
wouldn't enable video anyway.) AFAIR I can see -- consume -- screens
shared by others, in Firefox, without installing the plugin; so that
should work for me too.

Thanks!
Laszlo



Stephano Cetola
 

On Sep 11, 2019, at 1:27 PM, rebecca@... wrote:

Another alternative might be Jitsi (https://jitsi.org/).

“Multi-platform open-source video conferencing
At Jitsi, we believe every video chat should look and sound amazing, between two people or 200. Whether you want to build your own massively multi-user video conference client, or use ours, all our tools are 100% free, open source, and WebRTC compatible.”
Interesting, I haven’t heard of Jitsi.

I’ll have a look at this and see if it meets all our requirements.

—S


Liming Gao
 

Stephano:
I can access https://www.bluejeans.com/. Can you set up one meeting in bluejeans for test? I will join in it from China.

Thanks
Liming

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Subject: [edk2-announce] Zoom Service Blocked by China

Hi All,

https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq

It would seem that on Monday China blocked Zoom, our preferred
conference software.

This is an off week (luckily) for APAC meetings, so this should not
immediately effect us.

I'd like to propose BlueJeans as a replacement. AFAIK, they support web
clients (no binary needed), Android, and iOS. Also, I believe they will
work well in China:

https://support.bluejeans.com/s/article/Premium-Access-for-China

Cheers,
Stephano

An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?
--Axel Oxenstierna


Stephano Cetola
 

On 9/10/2019 8:01 AM, Stephano Cetola wrote:
I'd like to propose BlueJeans as a replacement. AFAIK, they support web clients (no binary needed), Android, and iOS.
We ran a preliminary test of BlueJeans yesterday and it seems to meet our needs rather well.

As such, I've updated the two APAC meetings (on our Groups.io calendar) to use BlueJeans:

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/47435

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/47437

Assuming these meetings go smoothly this week, I will move the EMEA meetings as well as the monthly community meetings over to BlueJeans.

For those of you attending the APAC meetings this week, please do ping me with any feedback.

Cheers,
Stephano


Stephano Cetola
 

On 9/17/2019 2:58 PM, Stephano Cetola wrote:
Assuming these meetings go smoothly this week, I will move the EMEA meetings as well as the monthly community meetings over to BlueJeans.
The Bug Triage went "smoothly", eventually. :)

One note, for those of us lucky enough to be running Windows 10 Corporate Build, the web app did not work well.

https://www.bluejeans.com/downloads

The desktop app seemed to work much better for us.

One user confirmed that the iOS app worked well.

Cheers,
Stephano