[Bradford] Video conferencing

[John Leach]

Thanks Shi!

We're all remote at Brightbox anyway and mostly use Google Meet which
has been fine so far.

but ok, if someone wants to lead this, just sign up at
https://www.brightbox.com and name the organisation Bradlug - it'll
get £50 free credit immediately anyway (all new accounts do), but I'll
flag it as a freebie account after that anyway.

You'll need to provide an SSH key so that when you build the server,
it will be automatically installed. If you add some collaborators to
the account first, their SSH keys will be installed on it too.

Having looked over the Jitsi specs, I'd recommend a 1G server. You'll
need to map a Cloud IP to it too (unless everyone is on IPv6 :)

Jitsu seems to push their Debian/Ubuntu packages most prominently, so
I'd recommend one of those distros (we generally use Ubuntu).

John.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 11:57, shi via Bradford
<bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> We are remote workers and have been at the mercy of clients when it comes to video conferencing (zoom and skype) but it has worked ok.
> I have also been 'attending' one-to-one cello lessons using the latter software for a few weeks now and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, in terms of logistics and clarity of facial expressions, sound, etc.
> Would be really good to try Jitsi!
>
> Many thanks for the offer, John - really appreciate it!
> --
> shi
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 11:51, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Brian
>>
>> I think we need to give John L time to respond and set things up.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Thursday, 19 March 2020 10:55:21 GMT Brian A wrote:
>> > May I be so bold as to suggest that we try this out on Thursday at 19:30 UK
>> > time, if that time be convenient to interested parties. John has experience
>> > of using Jitsi,  so maybe you could set it up John and pass on
>> > instructions??
>> >
>> > Brian
>> >
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>> > From: Bradford <bradford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk> on behalf of John
>> > Robert Hudson via Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> Sent: Thursday,
>> > March 19, 2020 11:20:54 AM
>> > To: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>;
>> > bernie at skipole.co.uk <bernie at skipole.co.uk> Cc: Bernard Czenkusz
>> > <bernie.skipole at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [Bradford] Video conferencing
>> >
>> > Hi Bernie
>> >
>> > I agree. If you are happy to go down that line, John, I am sure a lot of
>> > people would appreciate it. When you made the original offer, I was
>> > wondering if it would be worth it just for BradLUG, but if it were
>> > practical to make the offer more widely available to non-commercial groups
>> > for the next three months, say, that might also help a lot of people to
>> > become familiar with it.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > On Thursday, 19 March 2020 10:03:27 GMT Bernard Czenkusz via Bradford wrote:
>> > > Hi guys,
>> > >
>> > > This sounds interesting, if it works well it may be of interest to
>> > > Brightbox to offer it as a service, since I know my wife's Yoga class is
>> > > under threat, and presumably other excercise, yoga, pilates and other
>> > > classes. All of which may be topical in the current situation.
>> > >
>> > >   Bernie
>> > >
>> > > On 18/03/2020 15:44, John Leach via Bradford wrote:
>> > > > Hi Brian,
>> > > >
>> > > > my company, Brightbox, would be happy to give bradlug a server and
>> > > > some bandwidth for free to have a go with self-hosting Jitsi if you'd
>> > > > like.
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm interested in Jitsi myself too so would be curious about how you
>> > > > get on with it
>> > > >
>> > > > Let me know if that's of interest.
>> > > >
>> > > > John.
>> > > > --
>> > > > https://www.brightbox.com
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 13:27, John Robert Hudson via Bradford
>> > > >
>> > > > <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> > > >> Hi Brian
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Jitsi certainly seemed a good option the last time I looked at it.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> John
>> > > >>
>> > > >> On Wednesday, 18 March 2020 10:22:05 GMT bradlug--- via Bradford wrote:
>> > > >>> Following John's suggestion for a virtual meeting, I have, this
>> > > >>> morning,
>> > > >>> taken a brief look at what is available to facilitate that. Jitsi
>> > > >>> seems
>> > > >>> to
>> > > >>> be a good option. It is free to use, self host if you want, and Open
>> > > >>> Source. For me that ticks all the boxes, though I am not suggesting
>> > > >>> self
>> > > >>> hosting due to the presumed large bandwidth required. Hence, the
>> > > >>> question
>> > > >>> is, do you think this is a good choice and, if so, who would like to
>> > > >>> try
>> > > >>> this out? Brian
>> > > >>
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