[CentOS-devel] CentOS Dojo, May 13th, 14th, online. CFP Now Available

Am 10.03.21 um 18:25 schrieb Michael Scherer:
> Le lundi 08 mars 2021 à 15:33 -0500, Matthew Miller a écrit :
>> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 03:15:34PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
>>> I would be glad to hear their offering and how it compares to what
>>> RH OSPO is offering us. Financial considerations are, of course
>>> important, and if we're going to pay a different service, I am the
>>> one that holds the budget on that - but I have a lot of autonomy on
>>> spending that for the benefit of the project community.
>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, over in Fedora we also 1) would love to use open
>> source
>> for everything and 2) chose to use HopIn for some of our virtual
>> events.
>> Our conferences are important to us, but we're not in the conference
>> business, and we don't require conference hotels to run their systems
>> all on
>> open source in order to have an in-person event.
>>
>> Bandwidth is definitely a big concern, but another one is the backend
>> event-
>> organizer-oriented stuff. Some of the open source approaches I've
>> seen are
>> basically "scheduled video calls with chat" whereas HopIn has a lot
>> of tools
>> and backend stuff designed to make life easier for the people running
>> the
>> event, which is crucial when it's only a handful of volunteers (and
>> even
>> people paid to work on it don't have the event as their full-time
>> job).
> 
> There is also the question of latency, eg, not too bad for various part
> of the world, especially for discussion.
> 
> There is the question of rooms and moderations, which was not great on
> Jitsi. It was not made for that, and while people can make it work,
> there is so much more for a good experience (like, having a proper
> concept for rooms, etc). The diagram of the architecture for FOSDEM was
> a bit scary, and I understand why they had to do that, but the video
> team is surely bigger than the number of people discussing here on the
> topic at the moment.
> 
> 
> And there is the question of support. I would have been able to spin a
> BBB instance without too much problem (just close my eyes at the fact
> this requires a older version of Ubuntu...), but with 2 sysadmins in RH
> OSPO, we already can't cover all the project we want to help (around a
> dozen), and we can't really be on-call for all events (for ressources
> reasons, and for legal reasons, weekend and night work is heavily
> regulated in my country) .
> 
>> There may be options out there I'm not aware of that have more, but
>> when evaluating don't forget to keep this in mind when looking at
>> capabilities.
> 
> I heard good things about Big Blue Button, used by AFPy, the french
> python association, for meetups ( https://bbb.afpy.org/ ), or by a
> bunch of french indies hosters (see the CHATONS collective website). Or
> in fact, by GNOME:
> https://meet.gnome.org/
> 
> The AFPy pay around 20€ par month (Start-2-M-SSD at Online.net, and I
> looked, 80$ if hosted by Digital Ocean in the US for a equivalent 16G
> server). For that price, the server had no problem with 50 connections
> (which was the biggest meetup so far)
> 
> My partner also told me about paid hosting, used at their work, like
> https://www.octopuce.fr/visioconference-un-service-innovant-securise-et-libre/
>   
> 
> 
> Some people told that it can go to up to 100 people, and after, you
> need to start to load balance, with that article on Amazon:
> https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/opensource/how-to-build-a-scalable-bigbluebutton-video-conference-solution-on-aws/
> 
> But it start to be pricy I guess.
> 
> 
> 

Because of limitations of BBB I came today across this one (not tested):

https://www.wonder.me/

--
Leon