Lately, I’ve been even more immersed in FOSS communities and discovering great things. Every day is just constant learning! Making part of a diverse and international team opened my eyes to struggles that a local team wouldn’t face.

Communication is essential within any workplace, but how can we achieve this with international teams and in a freeway?

One of the solutions that I came to know recently is the Jitsi Meet. It’s a multi-platform Open-Source software to video and call conferences. The great difference is that there’s no need to register or download heavy executables. You can do it all directly from your browser. There’s the possibility to create a conference room with a permanent URL, this room may have a password, but it’s simply as sharing the link and password to the rest of the team and everyone can access it.

The cherry on the cake is how well it works on the mobile version. Anyone can be connected all the time, even through a smartphone. This software is full of nice details and good surprises, another feature is the vote function. Whenever voting is called people can simple ‘raise’ their virtual hands and by the end, the counting is made and results presented.

Asides from all of this, Jitsi works very well even with older machines and slow connection. The voice is clear and the video is alright. Nowadays another product like this would be Zoom, however, paid. In Zoom there’s a free trial of 30 minutes per session and then it’s disconnected.

But hey, why use some private solution when you can support a FOSS community and get excellent software that fits your team budget?

Copy? Over.