Hello
On 29/05/20 14:37, Paula Vélez wrote:
> Dear Carsten,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to do it and to share it with us.
yes, thank you very much for your very important effort :)
> I have the same worries than you lately and have been refusing
> meetings when it is on zoom.
:(
I was not able to refuse zoom many times due to job requirements that
sometimes offers MSteams as an option
> Lately I had also tested the BBB and it is a very good tool. Works
> very well, it is friendly and has interesting possibilities for meetings,
good to know , a few days ago I was reading in slashdot a poll about
options to videoconferencing and some people were saying basically the
same about BBB, so is worth to try it
> Thank you again to share the server and the bbb. I will probably try
> it soon since I've been using jitsi.
> By the way, there is a friend that made this trackin jitsi instances
> to see which one is the best at the precise moment
> where the connection will be.
>
> https://ladatano.partidopirata.com.ar/jitsimeter/
I still have no luck with Jitsi under GNU/linux (devuan, with chromium &
firefox-esr) :(
I already tried with a dozen of public Jitsi instances and is always the
same : I can't hear or I can't talk even if browser is accepting mic,
and etc... dunno
> But now I will use your link for a meeting I will have soon, then I
> will give you feedback about how it worked.
yep, same here
ciao!
> El vie., 29 may. 2020 a las 18:22, Carsten Agger (<agger@???
> <mailto:agger@modspil.dk>>) escribió:
>
> The present crisis has, of course, seen a surge in video conferencing,
> and as someone who is passionate about free software (and now, of
> course, involved as a GA member in the Free Software Foundation
> Europe)
> I've watched with some annoyance as everyone, including progressive
> academics and other intelligent people, throng to Zoom, the latest
> surveillance capitalist invention.
>
> I briefly considered if I should consider this "force majeure" and
> accept invitations to Zoom meetings, but instead I decided to double
> down on my free software stance and refuse to use anything that
> requires
> me to install non-free software on my computer.
>
> Instead, in order to show how feasible it is to run such
> infrastructure
> ourselves instead of relying on surveillance capitalism to solve
> all our
> problems, I decided to set up a video conferencing server in my
> own house.
>
> Some years ago I tried to run an instance of the otherwise brilliant
> Jitsi Meet, but I found that it was complicated to "tweak" to get a
> really satisfactory performance.
>
> Instead, I set up an instance of the e-learning server BigBlueButton,
> which can be accessed here:
>
> https://bigbluebutton.modspil.dk/
>
> Feel free to try it and use it as you please!
>
> Some Germans tried it and told me that it worked fine with 17 active
> participants, 12 on camera, so I suppose it works. I've mainly been
> using it for my piano lessons. :)
>
> The main limitation is that my Internet is "only" 100/100, which
> "limits" the capacity to e.g. 20 5-person meetings with camera
> activated
> at a time.
>
> If you decide to use it, you need to register a user to start a
> meeting
> - participants can just access the link you send them with no
> registration.
>
> If capacity becomes a problem, I might limit new registrations,
> but then
> maybe people can feel inspired to set up their own. It's not that
> hard. :-)
>
>
> Best,
> Carsten
>
>
>
>
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