[GTALUG] téléconferencing options, was GTALUG: COVID-19 Impact

[Karen Lewellen]

One can hold zoom meetings strictly by phone, no software required.
Might not resonate with plans, but does add an option that avoids the 
client drawback.
Kare



On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Alex Volkov via talk wrote:

> Hey Znoteer,
> Do you have a rough estimate how much CPU bigbluebutton was using during the 
> conference and for how many people?
>
>
> So far I've been inclining to spin up a VM with 4-8 dedicated CPUs that 
> should give some extra headroom for our average meeting size, and have Zoom 
> as a backup.
> My only problem with zoom is that it requires to install proprietary client, 
> which I might not work on every linux distro  and not everyone might 
> everyone will agree to use.
>
> We were planning to have a Q&A session, we don't need video recording feature 
> as we don't record Q&A as a matter of preference.
>
> I also opened a pool on which video conferencing solution we should use for 
> the next meeting -- https://mastodon.social/@gtalug/103886518041900393
>
> I was convinced to try out Jitsi following this thread -- 
> https://octodon.social/@cwebber/103811788098843117
>
>
> I like Jitsi because:
> * Fully open-source
> * Doesn't require browser plugins
> * easy to set up with let's encrypt
> * I already wrote some ansible scripts that help me create working servers 
> quickly
>
> I don't like Jitsi:
> * iOS app is a bit confusing
> * I had some issues with video-bridge and nginx fighting over https port on 
> the server
>
>
> For our executive meeting of 5 people having video calls at the same time  
> Jitsi was using 60% of CPU on the smallest instance, probably due to all of 
> the encryption going on. We were using the smallest hetzner instance 
> available 1vcpu/2GB ram in Finland and I don't think that we've had excessive 
> lag there.
>
> For the main meeting I'm planning to use one of the linode servers with 
> dedicated CPUs based in Toronto.
>
> Alex.
>
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> On 2020-03-26 6:01 p.m., Znoteer via talk wrote:
>>  Hi (lurker in Montreal, here),
>>
>>  On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 04:06:26PM -0400, Christopher Browne via talk
>>  wrote:
>> >  On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 14:42, Rouben via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> > >  Hi,
>> > > 
>> > >  Long-time lurker here.
>> > > 
>> > >  I’d be happy to provide virtual hosting for GTA LUG proceedings and
>> > >  meetings via Zoom or MS Teams. I work at UofT and I believe I can get 
>> > >  GTA
>> > >  LUG meetings hosted on our infrastructure.
>> > >
>>      [snip]
>> >  Our last board meeting we used the "libre" option, Jitsi, for which Alex
>> >  has set up a VM.  Alex seems to be proposing to spin up an instance of
>> >  that.  I suggest getting in on the conversation about that.
>> > 
>> >  To my mind, having more possible solutions is better than having fewer,
>> >  although we'll need to pick something specific pretty soon :-).
>>  [snip]
>>
>>  The local Debian group tried out BigBlueButton a couple of days ago.  It's
>>  similar to jitsi and is also opensource.  We were hitting an instance in
>>  Italy
>>  so there was some lag on the audio, though the video seemed to be pretty
>>  instantaneous.
>>
>>  https://bigbluebutton.org/
>> 
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