your definitely right!
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Oh my god, a working videoconference integration within Nextcloud would be just awesome. I really think it should be within Nextcloud Talk, since it’s just very good for chat and this functionality would perfectly fit in the gap of not be able to videoconference and the “not reinventing the wheel” idea of nextcloud.
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I agree
Great. Just to be clear. When I mentioned that is should be possible to install Talk and your app in parallel then I didn´t want to suggest that this makes sense for users. But it´s a good test that the code and namespaces of the apps don´t collide. Because this would be bad coding style and dangerous. If this is all fine then I suggest you should publish it at apps.nextcloud.com to get more feedback from users.
@ramezrafla
Are you still planning to publish your app in the App Store?
I would be very happy!
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Sorry for delay.
Now that the server code is released, I am not sure we need this effort anymore. I am thinking of shelving it.
But one thing is for sure, the community having started developing alternatives to Talk, has put pressure to open source the underlying server. So it is a success as we are all much better off now.
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i know that it has been pretty much work 4 u so it would be a real pity if you would shelf it…
why not coming up with a v1 and then give it away?
cheers
lf
The challenge is that the code (especially PHP) makes use of the original Talk namespace. It would require a substantial amount of work to get it ready for the apps store (to avoid namespace conflicts).
It is a cool effort, but I only see a handful of people really interested.
i guess there are a lot interested… but not capable of doing the work.
and of course that’s a task that needs to be done.
but anyways… putting it away can’t be the solution… maybe if you’d give it out to the world “as it is” with some comments what would need to be done before releasing it officially?
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@frank and everyone else on this thread
We installed the finally open-sourced server and it works very well. It’s rather simple, a GO server that multiplexes Janus (which is a compiled into a binary). So it is very efficient. I believe we can host more attendees on it than Big Blue Button.
For the purposes of Nextcloud, I believe we still achieved our objective (by speeding up the release of the server) to get a full open-source conferencing solution. I think we can shelve this Talk-BBB effort. We continue to use BBB on our other learning product (https://www.classroomapp.com) as it is more geared towards education.
@ramezrafla so you’re dumping this BBB integration?
Did you benchmark the two backends?
What about the bbb features like mute-others; upload-presentation; webinar-mode, record-session?
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@ramezrafla indeed it’s a pity to hear this. BBB currently has more features than Nextcloud has at this moment. And it can help very much for getting users to start with Nextcloud if other video conferencing apps are integrated in Nextcloud.
please take note that there still is another app dealing with integration of BBB
so even if @ramezrafla is shelving his project there hopefully will be some progress with that app.
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@abijma and @JimmyKater
Our objective was to have a video conferencing solution we can host (and not pay for it like it was with before the NC Talk server was open-sourced). The iOS and Android Talk apps are well-integrated with the NC server (for example it rings when a call comes through). The NC Server itself is more efficient and can host more users (BBB is a mesh of many services, while NC Server is a Go multiplexer with Janus).
Our BBB fork completed its objective: getting an open-source video conferencing solution. We believe the pressure put by having alternatives risked NC losing its edge with its own solution. Especially that we were forking the original Talk so had the same features (except mobile app).
In short, we got what we wanted.
It’s very easy to continue our development. We are happy to transfer the project to someone else.
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@ramezrafla kindly transfer the project to us. https://github.com/geniusdynamics
we deal alot with school systems, and we can see what value we can add into it.
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have there been any news about this transfer / the future of this integration?
yes, that is a very mature and promising app; just some minutes ago, a new release has just been posted.