[Leica] Planning a LUG video gathering

[Nathan Wajsman]

That very much jives with my experience. At my office, we are heavy users of video conferencing, even in normal times, and obviously 100% now. Within the last month I have participated in meetings using MS Teams (this is what we use internally), Zoom, Webex and private Skype. Of those, Webex is by far the worst. Private Skype worked surprisingly well for a video conference with four participants, two in Spain and two in Italy (in all four cases people in their respective homes).

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Nathan

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> On 31 Mar 2020, at 00:55, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <mailto:reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>> wrote:
> 
> WebEx is owned by Cisco, which makes its money selling large expensive devices that deliver high bandwidth. It is in Cisco's financial interest for WebEx to be bandwidth hungry. Zoom is capable of running in much more congested conditions than Webex is. Zoom makes its money selling usage licenses for its software. They are in fact a customer of Cisco. Zoom was founded by a WebEx engineer who was frustrated at WebEx's unwillingness to modernize and streamline its product.
> 
> On 2020-03-30 2:48 pm, Peter Dzwig wrote:
>> Brian,
>> I was using Webex via a web browser (in my case Firefox 61) a couple of
>> weeks ago for a week's worth of international meetings and that worked
>> fine. Only issue was - and always will be - bandwidth.
>> Just 2p worth,
>> Peter
>> On 29/03/2020 00:54, Brian Reid wrote:
>>> After some research,
>>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20200331&p1=1240&p2=62&p3=78&p4=31&p5=553&p6=102&p7=152 <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20200331&p1=1240&p2=62&p3=78&p4=31&p5=553&p6=102&p7=152>
>>> it seems that the time that includes the largest fraction of regular
>>> contributors is 14:00 GMT.
>>> An alternate time of 02:00 or 03:00 GMT would include the Far East but
>>> shut out Europe and be marginal for much of the USA.
>>> I have called in to international phone meetings more times than I can
>>> count (mostly IETF, RIPE, and ICANN), so I know first-hand how hard it
>>> is to cope with telecommunications at times I should be sleeping.
>>> After listening to discussion, I will set up a trial Zoom session or
>>> two, and we can see what happens.
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