~ Sebastian [2021-04-12 16:38 +0200]: > First off, I've got great news: Fosshost have accepted my application > for SPDX hosting! I have been informed that we are now on their queue. > It's probable that new DNS records will need to be created to point to > the Fosshost meeting servers, in which case I shall start a thread in > the SPDX Tech list.
Great idea to ask Fosshost for tech sponsoring! >> The BBB frontend greenlight can do exactly this. By default anyone >> can register for an account and create their own room. > > I think Jitsi and BBB have a fundamentally different paradigm with > regard to this. IRC is a system that I'm very familiar with and am a > great fan of, and I'd say that Jitsi is to video calling as IRC is to > text chat. Good comparison. BBB and Jitsi are really different. From our experience at the FSFE, BBB is rather for fixed team meetings and organised workshops while Jitsi is more for ad-hoc meetings that do not require any account. >From a sysadmin side, Jitsi feels to be a bit easier to set up and maintain, given that you do not want to make any customisations. These can be difficult to maintain in both systems, while customisations in BBB are easier to upgrade, while they break in Jitsi's upgrades. With BBB it is fairly simple to restrict the circle of people who can start meetings. This way, you can control the usage of your server. With Jitsi, everyone can open rooms and eat up your resources (there are some limits to this, but still). > The rooms are not created so much as they just exist, and people can > join and leave at will without needing an account. Jitsi URLs, just like > IRC channel names, are typically short, meant to be memorable and often > meaningful. For example, compare: > > jitsi.spdx.dev/GeneralMeeting > > and > > bbb.spdx.dev/sea-hwy-br5-zvq BBB's room URLs can be modified. That requires admin access and some CLI magic, but it's doable. We do this for a few important rooms: https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/TechnicalProcesses/BigBlueButton Best, Max -- Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Contact and information: https://fsfe.org/about/mehl | @mxmehl Become a supporter of software freedom: https://fsfe.org/join -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1391): https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/1391 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/81763353/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/leave/2655439/21656/1698928721/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
