[liberationtech] So there is no good video-conferencing solution, but what is everyone at LT using?

[Julian Oliver]

..on Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 04:29:30PM +0200, David Jacovkis wrote:
> 
> I'm involved with https://meet.coop through the femProcomuns coop. We
> started it with several European cooperatives (DigidemLab / Collective.tools
> [1], femProcomuns / CommonsCloud [2] and Webarchitects [3]) that needed a
> better solution for conferences, workshops and other meetings with over 50
> participants.
> 
> We started discussing a shared BBB infrastructure about two months ago, and
> we've already run a few events with very good results (e.g. OPEN2020 [4] and
> some sessions on the  Virtual WSFTE [5]).
> 
> If you're interested (as an individual or a collective), you can have a look
> at https://org.meet.coop, test the demo at https://demo.meet.coop/ and talk
> to us at contact at meet.coop or https://forum.meet.coop

We use BigBlueButton in Extinction Rebellion, a very large and
network-distributed population. With a separate dedicated COTURN server to get
end-points through difficult NATs and firewalls (WebRTC needs a wide UDP range),
and with a little tuning (Freeswitch, esp), it works very well.

    - PDF upload for presentations
    - Screen sharing
    - Presenter pass-around
    - Hand signals
    - Video streaming to group
    - Break out rooms
    - Recording

As regards benchmarks we've had 70 on one call, and 370 across multiple calls at
once, on an 8 CPU Core, 16GB RAM dedicated server. It's used day and night.  As
for scaling, Scalite allows for a load-balanced server pool. I'm starting with a
pool of 3 to meet XR's growing needs first week of August. 

    - https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/scalelite

I'll be rolling BBB out for other groups I support now and in future, for sure.

Cheers,

Julian
> 
> 
> On 6/29/20 10:56 PM, Jim Whitescarver wrote:
> > meet.coop <http://meet.coop> is running big blue button. Signup at the
> > demo demo.meet.coop <http://demo.meet.coop>
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:49 AM Yosem Companys <yosem at techlantis.com
> > <mailto:yosem at techlantis.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     I do not know why it did not occur to me before, but Zak just told
> >     me, why don't we just ask you directly what you all use for video
> >     conferencing?
> > 
> >     We are all struggling here trying to find the best solution, a holy
> >     grail of sorts, perhaps one of you has already found it?
> > 
> >     Thank you,
> >     Yosem
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