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Sat 12 Apr 2025 9:37PM

Online meetings - what platforms are worker coops using?

NF Nicholas Frealand Public Seen by 126

Hi all,

We have been using Skype for our online and hybrid meetings but it is now being retired by Microsoft in order to move users over to Teams.

We would rather not use this and if we are going to pay (e.g. Zoom), I would rather we contributed to a Worker Coop; a Coop; or Free and Open Source Software product.

What are people using or what ideas do people have?

Thanks for any input

DR

Douglas Racionzer Sat 12 Apr 2025 9:40PM

Meet.coop

LMH

Liam MacLeod (MediaBlaze Hosts) Sun 13 Apr 2025 12:53PM

We use our internal Nextcloud and send out meeting links to clients, just like teams/zoom

NBC

Nathan Brown (Co-op Culture) Mon 14 Apr 2025 7:35AM

Jitsi is free and open source

Some co-ops I've worked with use the Google meet free version and use the 1 hour cut off as a chance for a screen break, but it can be a faff having more than 1 link if you've got lots of members

If you're going to pay for a service, i'd recommend trialling the platform before setting up a 12 month subscription to see how your group gets on with it.

BS

Billy Smith Fri 18 Apr 2025 10:26AM

Meet.coop works well, within it's limits of operation. :D

It's good for conversations with 8-20 people.

More participants than that, and you'll be looking at a one-to-many broadcast tool, rather than a many-to-many conversational tool.

Running a meet.coop room via a web-browser, with no-participants-running-video-apart-from-the-speaker gives reasonable results in that use-case.