[Cialug] Jitsi Meet Failure

[David Champion]

I think the Google Meet is working pretty well for the Area515 meetings,
since we have the non-profit version we don't pay anything for the email
domains, Meet or Clasroom. Hoping to take the Classroom thing out for a
spin soon, planning to do a class on setting up a Beaglebone Black with
Pihole.

-dc


On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:40 PM Hakan E. Duran <ehakanduran at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> On 20/04/21 02:18PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > Well, I have to say in the end I'm disappointed by Jitsi Meet...
> >
> I am sorry to hear this. I do get it though sometimes you need something
> that just works.
>
> > That combined with the fact that you need a fairly fat VPS with plenty of
> > memory (on Digital Ocean I was using a $40/month droplet) I decided that
> it
> > wasn't worth it. I also don't have enough upload bandwidth to really
> > consider running this at home.
> >
> > If this was for a business I might consider trying this again, or if the
> > LUG wants to front the cash for a VPS I'd assist with the setup. But for
> > personal use I think that this is a non-starter.
> >
> I set it up in my home server in a docker container that I launch only
> about 15 minutes before the scheduled meeting with my friends in
> Minnesota and Europe along with forwarding the ports, etc. If LUG is
> interested in a trial run and doesn't mind giving my setup a chance, we
> all can test it without any charge. I did not set up the
> streaming/recording module though (I forgot what it was called), but it
> shouldn't be too hard to do based on my humble experience with the rest
> of the modules. Let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hakan Duran
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