As Zoom basically is spyware, and with its AI integration, I’m looking for an alternative to Zoom for my group.
It needs support for:
Text chat
Audio talk
video talk
screen sharing (including sharing of a single window)
Ability to call in via a normal phone (like using the regular phone network)
Admin password and admin tools
Ability to hide it behind a password (my group quite often gets bothered by trolls, we want to limit that)
Ability to raise hand during a meeting
Is there an open source system, which we preferably don’t need to host ourselves (lack of people with the appropriate technical skills) which provides all these features. Yes, we need all of the above.
When I run meetings for our association I choose whatsapp as it just works and our management team lives on it. But our president always chooses google meet. Our Trésorier always chooses teams.
Google is limited to 1 hour and we always over run so drop back to whatsapp.
Both teams and google have issues on some browsers with sound not working but it could be user issues as its always the same member who has problems.
Whatsapp on linux is not very good you have to use an alternative but cannot remember its name off hand as i tend to use my tablet.