On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:10 PM Bill Woodcock <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, I’ve been looking at a lot of the options, and I know a lot of other > people who have as well, for various school districts and universities, and > the best option (mainly from a > not-exposing-children-to-malware-and-naked-Nazi-zoombombers perspective) is > BigBlueButton. It’s open-source, well-supported, and runs entirely sandboxed > in the browser, HTML5, like Jitsi, but with an online-classroom focus rather > than a business-meeting focus. > > https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton > > That said, I’m not trying to use it in production myself. Friends who are > say it’s mostly great, but the audio quality isn’t as good as some of the > commercial options. Which isn’t surprising. Audio noise cancellation is the > subject of a million patents, and patent-trolls.
lwn.net has two articles up so far: jitsi: https://lwn.net/Articles/815751/ BBB: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/817146/ab4cf6e655ed8333/ I have been fiddling with meetecho "janus", and "sylkserver". There's also a pretty good go library https://github.com/pion/webrtc It really bugs me that a soiree with me and a couple friends has to be on a server in the cloud, webrtc is pretty amazingly low bandwidth. > > On Apr 20, 2020, at 2:03 AM, Rob Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm watching my wife and her friends on derpbook try to consolidate > > their tech support hints and tips to get the rugrats onto and into Day > > 1 of their remote learning, and the last thing she sent to me was > > 'High school has fully crashed'. > > > > I understand that all your stuff is on fire, and everything that was > > on fire yesterday is now a towering inferno, and you probably feel > > like everyone is blaming you. > > > > Please don't stress. If you have someone breathing down your neck, > > here's a bunch of technically correct, but also useless excuses you > > can give people to get them off your back for a while, while you > > actually fix the problems that have cropped up without having to > > explain them to a non-technical audience. > > > > 1. There are IPv6 problems (you can grow this one out as much as you > > want. Blame NAT64) > > 2. We aren't receiving all of AARNET's BGP announcements (bonus points > > are awarded if you're not MEANT to be receiving AARNET's BGP > > announcements, but still manage to use this as an excuse) > > 3. Some of our peering links are down (Well, you can't use that if you > > REALLY have all your peering links up, but who is in that state right > > now??) > > 4. Office365 is playing up _or_ Office365 has just started working > > (You can alternate this one, to match reality) > > 5. There's congestion on the Telstra network (Don't be specific as to > > WHERE the congestion is) > > 6. Have you checked YOUR firewall? No, really. Check it again. (Repeat > > several times) > > 7. Wildcard! Blame VoIP. SIP is so complex, most people will glaze > > over when you start explaining that the SDP is being mangled > > incorrectly so RTP is leaving bogus port forwarding in place in your > > border NAT device which ... blah blah. > > > > But here's the important thing. This is not the end of the world. If > > stuff is down because of something out of your control, or because > > you're busy putting out other fires, IT DOESN'T MATTER. Here's a photo > > of my pair not CARING that everything is broken. > > > > https://i.imgur.com/jBXrE9M.png > > > > They're the end users, they don't care. No matter who is saying it's a > > life and death thing, it's not. There ARE things that are life and > > death (eg, 000/VoIP!). Care about those. > > > > And geez, if you REALLY get stuck with something that you think that > > you should be able to figure out and can't, post it here. We don't > > mind. Got a VOIP problem? Ask me here, or off list. BGP Filters not > > working? Routing loops? Whatever. Post it here. (Except, possibly > > enough of the 'Office 365 CDN is corrupt' stuff, because this is > > something that Microsoft REALLY SHOULD have solved by now) > > > > I always find that even just talking about, or writing down, a problem > > that has stumped me always helps (see 'Rubber Duck Debugging'). Half > > of us are sitting around twiddling our thumbs because we've got 50% of > > our normal traffic, and I'm sure we'll all be willing to help. > > > > --Rob > > > > PS: I honestly, truly, care. I've been RIGHT at the end of my tether > > for stupid reasons and because I was under insane pressure. You, > > personally, are more important than your job. Don't kill yourself > > (metaphorically OR literally). Wanna chat about shit? Call me. > > 0402-077-155. Anytime. > > _______________________________________________ > > AusNOG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > > -Bill > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog -- Make Music, Not War Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-831-435-0729 _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
