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BjornW
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
What an awesome project. It looks fabulous!

Reminds me of the Dato Duo I have.

The "Dato Duo" is also a synth aimed at kids. It allows 2 kids to play together. it is made by a Dutch company called Dato (https://dato.mu). Their latest musical invention the "Dato Drum" had a successful Kickstarter and is shipping now. This drum machine allows even more kids to play together.

PS: As the owner of a Dato Duo I can share you a little secret: it's also fun for adults :)
BjornW
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
No problem. Good luck finding new colleagues.
BjornW
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Had a look at Quatt's website. Just a quick remark: Requiring to fill in information for a brochure about your product, feels weird & I'm not willing too, but ok. However, automatically agreeing to receiving 'marketing communication' & agreeing with your cookie policy when pressing download is definitely not ok. Not from my personal standpoint, but more importantly also not by law (GDPR) although IANAL. Might be a good idea to tell your marketing colleagues about this. Please remind them not to be behave like assholes. Nobody likes forced "marketing communication"...it's just a euphemism for spam. Take care.
BjornW
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Yes, I ran & still run a Jitsi instance and a website which would connect you to one of 12 participating Jitsi server at random applying to our guidelines in the EU.

My goal was offering a low-barrier open for all way to connect with loved ones. During the peak of the Covid pandemic for many people it was easier to connect with colleagues than family members or friends. So I contacted a few sysadmins and public organizations of whom I knew were running Jitsi and asked if it could be shared via our public website. A few agreed and a few dropped by and wanted to help out. After a few days a commercial hosting company decided to sponsor us with one VPS as well.

Our idea was to connect the servers and use the API to select a server with the lowest load. In the meantime we used a randomizer...we've never used the API after all, the randomizer worked well enough ;)

People told us they've used our free service for yoga classes, library book reading clubs, hackerspaces & celebrating birthdays with grandma.

Overall I'm still very proud what we've achieved in a few days with some servers, opensource software and bit of work.

Many thanks to @saghul, 8x8 and all other people contributing to Jitsi. Thank you!