Prior Art // Background
There's another project/repo that I've gotten a lot of value out of - https://codebuddies.org repo.
Their approach is to create online meet-up sessions, and coordinate the meeting time and video conferencing session for you. Two main differences between their platform and Ment.io will be:
- Not focused on coding
- Persist sessions to youtube (then add search filters per topic, ratings, etc.)
They have laid a lot of ground in the area of coordinating sessions however, and did a good job vetting several alternatives to Google Hangouts. I like the solution they went with, called Jitsi, because it's open source and has an open API that you can integrate with.
One of the nicest things about Jitsi is its streaming integration, all you need to do is pass your YouTube stream ID and it sets up the session, which is then automatically saved to your YT account.
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Prior Art // Background
There's another project/repo that I've gotten a lot of value out of - https://codebuddies.org repo.
Their approach is to create online meet-up sessions, and coordinate the meeting time and video conferencing session for you. Two main differences between their platform and Ment.io will be:
They have laid a lot of ground in the area of coordinating sessions however, and did a good job vetting several alternatives to Google Hangouts. I like the solution they went with, called Jitsi, because it's open source and has an open API that you can integrate with.
One of the nicest things about Jitsi is its streaming integration, all you need to do is pass your YouTube stream ID and it sets up the session, which is then automatically saved to your YT account.
Implementation
Documentation
Features