# Communication Tools Research

## Video
### List of requirements
* Video as a Service (avoid self-hosting for now)
* Simultaneos meetings with same API key (account)
* Breakout rooms capabilities (built-in or addressable)
* Support up to 200 users (scalable)
* Configurable API
* Embeddable in Weeve.space
* Flexibility
* Cost per User (ideally below 1$) (participant-minutes)
* has React client library
* Pricing Model
* Maturity
* Minimum Price

### Available Tools
#### Jitsi Community (Miguel)
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#### Jitsi (JaaS) (Miguel)
#### Daily.co (Calvin)
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#### Zoom Web version (Calvin)
#### Whereby Embed (Calvin)
PIM (Participants in Meetings - you can use up your minutes in 12 Months)
not time-based

#### Big Blue Button (as service)

#### Jitsi (Self-Hosted) (Miguel)
#### Big Blue Button (Self-Hosted) (Miguel)

### Number Basis

#### Scneario 25
25 (Users) * 120 (Minutes) * 8 (monthly, 2 a week) = 24.000 participant minutes or 25 users

#### Scneario 300
10 (Customers) * 30 (Users) * 120 (Minutes) * 4 (monthly, 1 a week) = 144.000 participant minutes or 300 users

### Matrix template

| | VaaS | Parallel Meetings | Breakout | Scalable | API | Embeddable | Cost 25 | Cost 300 | Pricing Model | Maturity |
| -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | --------- | -------- |
| **Jitsi aaS** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 0$ | 99$ | Users | Med |
| **Daily.co** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 88$ | 568$ | Minutes | High |
| **BBB** | Yes | | | | | | | | Users | High |
| **Jitsi Self-Hosted** | Yes | | | | | | | | Minutes | High |
| **Zoom Web** | Yes | | | | | | | | Minutes | High |

### Timeline

## Other tools
* TTS as a Service (to have human-like voices speak prompts - e.g. wellsaidlabs)
* Whiteboard as a Service (to have all the nice free collaborative spaceness - e.g. miro embed)
* Shared / collaborative note-taking (e.g. using etherpad or something else?)