After the recent change of the terms of service to Zoom, Software Freedom Conservancy seeks to bring light to corporate abuse of power and focus on making FOSS solutions to these proprietary requirements.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/aug/15/exit-zoom/
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@conservancy I'd had success with JitsiMeet, which uses free software.
@conservancy important to share - hopefully we can be in touch about this living document http://opensourceimperative.org/
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Can we please all fund a rewrite of the jit.si remote control code? 😀
What a wonderful idea. I doubt many will do so but if even a few do that's better than nothing.
@conservancy I think this is important work, thank you very much.
In a similar fashion, I've been concerned about the growing number of projects and communities on Discord.
@conservancy I've got family, friends, colleagues, clients drop Jitsi and BigBlueButton because they were too unreliable. Even people who are connected with the F/LOSS movement. For BBB, there's no native Android client for example! https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/15908
Also initiatives like https://www.meet.coop/ tried to be sustainable and failed. Are we willing to put our money where our mouth is?
Calling to "exit zoom" without acknowledging usability, reliability, and sustainability issues is bad.
@conservancy cc @Wtebbens, I'm sure you have opinions on this
@viktor @conservancy Here there's some context https://www.commonsnetwork.org/2023/03/21/ups-and-downs-of-a-platform-coop/
@astrojuanlu @conservancy thanks for sharing, that's pretty informative. Lack of proper marketing and poor operations will kill any business.
@conservancy It's sad to hear how Zoom is manipulating user data. Zoom is an essential tool for learning in my country, where many children have been forced to abandon their studies due to the ongoing civil war. My daughter has been using Zoom everyday for her online classes since she was in grade 1, and she is now in grade 3. I think Zoom should take immediate steps to address these concerns so that children like my daughter can learn without fear of their privacy being violated.
@conservancy Well, we went down the BlueButton rabbit hole. Are still trying to figure out how we can replace Zoom with something FOSS... Maybe this will work.