Re: Alternatives for online events scenarios

[Jean Louis]

* On 9/3/20 11:34 AM, Jonathan Sandoval wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I belong to science divulgation group and we've been testing platforms
> for online conferences. We prefer as much as possible free and privacy
> respecting platforms. We tested BigBlueButton and Jitsi Meet (in
> meet.jit.si) and choose Jitsi Meet as we think it's easier to use for
> people and we like its UI layout more. (We believe BBB is great too, and
> use it for other kind of events where we use the board, for example).
> 
> Up to now, we've run a couple of pilot conferences with few users
> (around 20). Now, we'll start to open the invitation for everyone. I
> know Jitsi Meet (and any platform) has a limit on number of people. I
> think we could perfectly invite around a hundred people, but that way
> we'll get to the limit of Jitsi Meet (at least in its free service). In
> some forums I've read they mention around 70 people, but not everyone
> with cams.

When you have many users your organization probably have enough cash
to pay for your own server and installation of Jitsi, so just do it
and you have no limits.

Jean