FedRTC.org SIP and XMPP service - help needed

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Michael Catanzaro
<mike.catanzaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In both the FedRTC and debian case how many calls are made a
>> day/month, what is the volume of XMPP etc? In the later case we
>> already use both IRC and Telegram within the community, I'm not sure
>> what value yet another text messaging service provides.
>
> Well we could use this to replace our IRC meetings. We could finish
> meetings much faster over SIP than with IRC. It's kind of primitive
> that we don't have a good way to do voice and video calls right now.

We don't do IRC because of lack of voice or video.  We do IRC because
it scales to whomever wants to participate.  Doing Fedora meetings in
voice or video introduces limitations in the number of concurrent
attendees, both as participants and lurkers.  It also enforces some
amount of order to the meeting itself.  IRC also makes it extremely
easy to provide exact logs of the discussions in addition to the
minutes.

So if we are going to replace that with voice/video, we need to make
sure it scales to a very large number of people, we have someone doing
their best to transcribe things, and we have recording capabilities so
people can replay it if they cannot attend.

josh