Hi All - I apologize for my delay in reporting on the May First meeting we had earlier this week. We spent some time discussing meet.coop and how we thought we could most effectively help.
Unfortunately, we came to the conclusion that hosting meet.coop’s BBB infrastructure is would not be a good move for us since it would delay a number of major infrastructure projects we have planned out. Also, since we are already hosting Jitsi Meet (and have invested a lot of time learning how to use and administer it), we felt it would be duplicative and confusing for our members to spend resources on two video conferencing platforms.
Having said all of this, all members of the coordination team were in favor of extending any other help we can provide. We are always in favor of building the ecosystem of corporate-free Internet tools! And our jitsi meet instance is in fact available to the public - so you don’t even have to join in order to use it. And, we could welcome any meet.coop members who are looking for a coop home.
But ultimately it seems like there is a lot of interest and support from coops that might be in a better position to help house the technology and community together, which seems like the best way forward for the project.