= Web Conferencing =

May First/People Link has several tools for web-based conferencing.

== Recommended Tool ==

Jitsi Meet is our recommended tool for web-based video conferencing. All participants can join a video conference by clicking on a web link that you can send by email or instant message. Each participants must have a functional microphone and speakers on their computers and (optionally) a camera. 

Jitsi Meet works best with 5 or less participants (if you have more participants, you will have better sound quality if each participants disables the video option). 

All participants must use a recent version of Chrome/Chromium or Firefox/Iceweasel. If you are using chromium, you must pass the --no-sandbox option.

To start a conference, visit: https://meet.mayfirst.org/.

Alternatively, you can pick a conference room by inventing your own address on the meet.mayfirst.org web site. For example, you could invite all participants to go to: https://meet.mayfirst.org/my-special-meeting.

The first person to enter the conference is the moderator, and will have special rights (for example they can mute other individuals, kick someone out of the conference, or set a password for the conference room).

If you want to enable desktop sharing, you will need to be running either Chrome or Chromium and:

 * Download the desktop sharing application: https://meet.mayfirst.org/desktop-sharing.tgz
 * Unpack the folder: `tar -xzvf desktop-sharing.tgz` on Linux, or double click on Windows or Mac.
 * Type the following into your browser address window: chrome://extensions
 * Check the "Developer Mode" checkbox in the top right corner
 * Click "Load Unpacked Extension"
 * Navigate to the unpacked folder and open it
 * You should now see a new extension called "Mayfirst's Jitsi Desktop Streamer." Click the Enable checkbox.
 * Now, open a Jitsi Meet conference and you can click on the Share Screen option 

== Experimental Tools ==

The following tools are experimental.

 * https://live.mayfirst.org/ provides video conference and a shared notepad. You must use Chrome or Chromium. 

 * https://live.mayfirst.org/mexcla is audio-only and provides a live interpretation channel.