[HacktionLab] Picnic table zoom

[Chris Clemson]

Hi everyone,
I set up a BBB instance last week on my home server, and while yes, it
does take a while to set up, i did the whole thing on a new Ubuntu
installation in about half a day.
The official instructions are pretty comprehensive.
The only thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned is that Chrome seems to
try and use the flash version of the plugin (both Mac and windows), and
then fails to work for anything other than audio.
There's a setting server-side that can fix this, which basically forces
everyone to use the HTML5 client. This part took a while to figure out,
but apart from that it's pretty good.

I tried Nextcloud Talk, but BBB has more features.
Bandwidth-wise, it takes ~1mbps for each user, although I don't know if
this gets esponential as more people join - i've only tried it with 3
participants so far.
Hopefully tomorrow I will be doing a call with 6-8 people and we'll see
how it performs.

Another problem was that the first recording didn't show up, so I had to
restart the server.
After that, it was fine. Records take a while to transcode before they
are available, and therefore take a while to show up in the web gui.
Maybe more virtual CPUs would help as it seems to be using ffmpeg and
other bits and bobs.

I've not tried jitsi.

Chris

> I know several hosting collectives have added Jitsi to their collection.
> Though I don't see any of them listing them publicly, so I guess it's
> when you're involved in a collective using them you'll know.
>
> Correction I just checked and Autistici announced theirs:
> https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2020/03/9587
>
> BBB it somewhat more work to set up as I understand it.
>
> Also there's a list of online activities on radar.squat.net :
>
> https://radar.squat.net/en/events/country/XI
> http://3m2pgmhdsgrneurfbi5oxelzbytcgxaeajsmtxuijhen3l3asu3c5yad.onion/en/events/country/XI
>
> I know there is way more around. Not sure if anyone is making lists...
>
> sam at bristolwireless.net:
>> If you wanted FOSS video conference software with breakout rooms then
>> you might like Big Blue button;
>>
>> http://docs.bigbluebutton.org
>>
>> https://github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight
>>
>> There’s an open instance here: https://bbb.jitsi.world but I’m not sure
>> who owns/ operates it
>>
>>
>