[Ofa_boardplus] Update: OFA TPC Meeting

[Jim Ryan]

I'm following up to get more info on Citrix go-to-meeting. A question
occurred to me which I think *could* be helpful, but I'm not sure. I know
Intel uses Outlook and Lync and it's a bit of an effort to do anything
different. Are there other practices or restrictions I should be aware of
when investigating collaboration tools?

thanks and regards, Jim

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Paul Grun <grun at cray.com> wrote:

> "I have never had success with Lync. I think a lot of this is because
> companies seem to use old versions. Eg Cray is using 2010. But even today
> 'Skype for Business' explicitly does not support Linux, so I'd just as soon
> avoid it.."
>
> AGREED!  It just happened to be the only collaboration tool to which I had
> access for purposes of the TPC (on short notice, for short duration).  I
> would not suggest it as any kind of a solution, though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Update: OFA TPC Meeting
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Some thoughts on OFA conferencing.
>
> My personal preference right now is Google Hangouts. This is mostly
> because Google has open sourced and bundled the client side into Google
> Chrome so it works on every OS out of the box. But it is nice to use and
> screenshares well.
>
> Citrix Go-To-Meeting is my next preference because they have a HTML 5 web
> client that works basically universally on Google Chrome. Paid options have
> a traditional POTS call in option as well as a Windows App client for users
> that cannot use Chrome.
>
> Cisco WebEx is a distant third. I have yet to see a HTML 5 version of this
> (they still use Java, ugh), so it never works reliably for me on Linux -
> but their mobile app is quite reasonable.
>
> I have never had success with Lync. I think a lot of this is because
> companies seem to use old versions. Eg Cray is using 2010. But even today
> 'Skype for Business' explicitly does not support Linux, so I'd just as soon
> avoid it..
>
> For what it is worth, I switched a non-profit board I am on to Google Apps
> for non-profit this year and we are very happy. We switched from
> Go-To-Meeting to Hangounts quite trivially and the real-time shared
> collaboration via Google Docs makes the sort of meeting we had today very
> smooth. Google Apps is free for US 501(c)(3) non-profits.
>
> (I guess they call it G Suite now)
>
> Jason
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