I need to set up a video conference for about 30 people for 2 hours. I would use zoom or ms teams, but Zoom limits me to 45mins; ms teams, as far as I understood, limits me to 1 hour.
What is the best and the simplest way to do this (and it must be a reliable option with web access)?
Ps: there is no need to be foss or super private or encrypted.
Check jitsi meet (meet.jit.si) It is a free service based on an open source framework and runs fine in a browser. I don’t know of it can handle 32 but during the pandemic it was used for online classes.
Do you know if I can schedule a meeting for a specific date in jitsi (I cannot find any mention of this)?
You can persist the session and use the link to it on the invite I think. The link is not protected however, anyone can use it but that never was an issue.
FaceTime supports up to 32 people on a group call. No time limit that I’m aware of. You can send web links to people on Android/Windows.
I’m an android/windows user myself. Can one schedule a facetime call? Is web experience as good as ms teams/zoom offers?
I’m sure the web version is as good as or better than Teams or Zoom. Any Zoom calls I’ve been subjected to have been a complete shit show of people trying to get it to work for the first 15mins…
Check out this article re. setting up and scheduling a FaceTime call. FWIW, anyone can join the call on any device but you’ll need an Apple device to set it all up initially.
Thank you. Will keep it as a plan B, since I do not have an apple account.
I’ve been in way too long Google meet calls with that amount of people.
In theory it should work, but I’m not 100% sure if long calls are maybe a business customer feature
A free account has a 1 hour limit for group video calls.
BigBlueButton
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
I have not use it myself yet, but it has 75 users limit and no time limit.
