Re: [GSoC Mentors] Students applying from Beijing, China + connectivity issues

[James Salsman]

This describes an issue in China:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
this is a related issue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blacklisted_keywords_in_China
similarly http://www.zdnet.com/article/1168-keywords-skype-uses-to-censor-monitor-its-chinese-users/

As an alternative to https://meet.jit.si/
can anyone please test http://rgr.im/ in China and let me know how
that is going? I like audio but do not like synchronous A/V.

Best regards,
Jim



On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:04 AM, Gary Bradski <garyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mid 2018, China plans to officially change the name of their country to:
> "WeChat". Get that app on your phone and calling through it works fine,
> along with file share and an annoyingly large list of emojis .
>
> You can translate Chinese to english text by selecting the phrase, a menu
> comes up, and you hit translate. The translation sucks, but you can kind of
> get it.
>
> Really, it seems to be the dominant chat communication platform there, has
> good group chat functionality and seemingly everyone in China uses it -- you
> can't get away from it. They have built in many viral ways of exchanging
> contact from a scanner that works extremely well, to shake and discover and
> so on.
>
> Gary
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Stephen Larson <ste...@openworm.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Been mentoring the past two years and I have found the ability to
>> communicate in real-time via Skype / Hangouts to be essential. However, my
>> experience in the past with attempting to communicate with folks in Beijing
>> using these real-time tools is often that it is just not possible due to
>> firewall issues.
>>
>> What suggestions do folks have to deal with this? Can I / should I
>> attempt to establish if the student will have a sufficient connection?
>> Basically if they can't do some kind of video chat I think it will be hard
>> to accept them, despite their qualifications.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen
>>
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