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On Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:44 PM Chris Morgan <mihalis68 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We on the ops meetups team had a trial meeting on meetpad.opendev.org
> this morning and for the most part it worked very well (detailed feedback
> below). Speaking personally, I am very happy to see an open source solution
> for video conferencing being adopted by the foundation to some extent. I
> had and continue to have reservations about Zoom, but at the end of the day
> no matter how well they respond to the security and privacy concerns it
> will still be a proprietary solution and no more true to the openstack
> tenets than slack is as a replacement for irc.
>
> feedback
>
> - etherpad integration is cool but several of us found the window seemed
> to disappear inexplicably
> - colored highlighting of fragments on the etherpad showed up overlapped
> for some but not all meeting members, obscuring some text
> - background blurring seemed very heavy for some participants computers
> and this possibly lead to some sessions locking up
> - it's not clear what named meetings persistence is, for example a named
> meeting from yesterday is still shown today, but doesn't have the password
> I applied yesterday
>

I can answer this one. The list on the landing page is merely a list of
your history, and yours alone. It has no bearing on the persistence of a
room. Rooms are normally ephemeral and vanish from the server side when the
last person leaves it.


> My guess is some (all?) of this is just how Jitsi is right now.
>
> The team (openstack ops meetups) is now talking about possibly hosting a
> global ops meetup on this platform. How can we determine when and if the
> infra for this is ready for it, and how many participants is a reasonable
> cap? What about streaming, can we stream the whole thing continuously to
> youtube? We are thinking that each topic would have a small number of
> presenters/participants in the video conference itself, but allow a larger
> group to see it on youtube and contribute via the etherpad. Is this a
> reasonable plan?
>
> Thanks for doing this!
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 12:57 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-05-05 12:06:42 -0400 (-0400), Chris Morgan wrote:
>> [...]
>> > we had a quick IRC meeting today, and also a trial run at an open
>> > source based video conference meeting using jitsi via an instance
>> > running on infra provided by Erik McCormick. This seems to be
>> > promising. We'll look into trialling some ops related events
>> > leveraging this.
>> [...]
>>
>> It's probably been flying under the radar a bit so far, but the
>> OpenDev community has put together an Etherpad-integrated Jitsi-Meet
>> service at https://meetpad.opendev.org/ which you're free to try out
>> as well. We'd love feedback and help tuning it. Also if you want to
>> reuse anything we've done to set it up, the Ansible playbook we use
>> is here:
>>
>>
>> https://opendev.org/opendev/system-config/src/branch/master/playbooks/service-meetpad.yaml
>>
>> It utilizes this role to install and configure jitsi-meet containers
>> with docker-compose (mostly official docker.io/jitsi images, though
>> we build our own jitsi-meet-web published under docker.io/opendevorg
>> which applies our Etherpad integration patch):
>>
>>
>> https://opendev.org/opendev/system-config/src/branch/master/playbooks/roles/jitsi-meet
>>
>> We're not making any stability or reusability guarantees on the
>> Ansible orchestration (or our custom image which will hopefully
>> disappear once https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/5270 is
>> accepted upstream), but like everything we run in OpenDev we publish
>> it for the sake of transparency, in case anyone else wants to help
>> us or take some ideas for their own efforts.
>> --
>> Jeremy Stanley
>>
>
>
> --
> Chris Morgan <mihalis68 at gmail.com>
>

-Erik

>
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