[Soc-coordination] webcam interviews for students?

Daniel Pocock daniel at pocock.com.au
Mon Feb 3 19:24:32 UTC 2014




Some projects are using a softphone/webcam to interview the students.

Anyhow, just as with anything in Debian, I feel it is really important
that the students' first impression of Debian is using Debian-based
technology and not a non-free softphone that they may have used in other
situations.

I believe the most accessible and reliable options for this are

a) for calls with only two participants, the new Debian SIP service,
using the WebRTC interface at https://rtc.debian.org
 - the NAT traversal features in the browsers are currently better than
in standalone softphones
 - Students can call us using https://freephonebox.net

b) for group video chats, we could use the new Jitsi video bridge, it is
a separate product from the Jitsi team, not part of the Jitsi client
software.
 - They had 10 WebRTC browsers connected concurrently at FOSDEM, with a
Debian box as the server.
 - I would be willing to volunteer a VM to run this

If other mentors or admins are keen on this, I'd be very happy to help
them get started with it.  Details are all on the Debian SIP wiki



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