[pm-h] Google Hangouts for Introductory Perl Help

[Todd Rinaldo]

Yeah, I gotta agree.  I’m aware they’re killing XMPP. What I don’t follow is what that has to do with using hangouts as the easiest option?

Todd

On Oct 26, 2013, at 8:18 AM, B. Estrade <estrabd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seriously? It's never ending. Can we just get something going and not always find a reason to distract ourselves? Wade has kick off something good, let's just go with whatever is easiest.
> 
> With all due respect,
> Brett
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:32 AM, <rlharris at oplink.net> wrote:
> I have spent several hours searching and reading regarding Google
> Hangouts.  It appears that Google is taking the system proprietary next
> month, moving away from XMPP, and making it difficult or impossible to go
> "off-record".  So Google Hangouts now is about as appealing to me as is
> Skype under the management of micro$oft.
> 
> There appears a reasonable alternative to Hangouts, which is open-source
> and is being developed for the university environment -- Big Blue Button.
> I think this should be investigated.
> 
> http://bigbluebutton.org/
>