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     - Stand-by until late-April
   - Documenting our infrastructure
 
-- amin and gopar's podcast: bandali, gopar
+- bandali and gopar's podcast: bandali, gopar
   - Coming up with a list of guests
     - Leo Vivier (zaeph, org-roam)
     - Qiantan Hong (crdt)
@@ -50,11 +50,51 @@
   - Coming up with a way to coordinate meetings with *all* the organisers of the EmacsConf (rather than the core subset)
   - Coming up with a calendar for the next edition
 
+- EmacsVerse
+  - Vet Mailman and exim instance for usergroups: bandali
+
 - Misc
   - Writing about Emacs: zaeph
   - mplsCorwin's livestreaming project, working on trimming
   - Diversity outreach: gopar, sachac, zaeph, mplsCorwin
 
+* April 24, 2021 meeting
+- Tentative agenda
+  - Diversity outreach
+    - We might want to get the conversation properly started wrt the CFP that we’d like to publish earlier this year (late-July)
+  - How to get all the people in EmacsConf along for important discussions (e.g. diversity)?
+  - Coming up with a tentative calendar for the next EmacsConf as a first step towards properly working on the next edition
+
+- Next actions
+  - Project-based:
+    - bbb:
+      - See if increasing the RAM results in less CPU usage
+      - Working with the swap
+        - Decreasing the swapiness of the kernel might help
+        - Test RW speed (elsewhere than ~/tmp/~)
+      - Check if we can change the ffmpeg prioritisation for BBB (so as to get recordings out sooner, or to manage them ourselves)
+        - Does bbb spawn a ffmpeg process that we can investigate?
+  - People-based
+    - zaeph:
+      - Download all the recording sessions for EmacsConf & ERG
+        - → Still not up
+      - Email Emacs NYC (and Cc sachac and bandali) to ask them if they’d be interested in hosting their sessions on our BBB instance (on FH)
+        - Next session: [2021-05-03 Mon]
+        - Organisers to content:
+          - admin@emacsnyc.org (goes to both Eric & Zach)
+      - Do the same with Emacs ATX?
+        - Next session: [2021-05-05 Wed]
+      - Do the same with Emacs APAC?
+        - Next session: [2021-04-24 Sat]
+    - sachac:
+      - Check if you have access to the bbb server
+    - bandali:
+      - Set up the vm01 server
+      - Listing the specs for the non-FH servers
+      - Podcast:
+        - Think about announcing the podcast
+      - 
+
 * April 17, 2021 meeting
 
 - Tentative agenda
@@ -63,6 +103,91 @@
   - How to get all the people in EmacsConf along for important discussions (e.g. diversity)?
   - Coming up with an agenda for the next EmacsConf
 
+- Check-in
+  - bandali
+    - Things have been a little tough recently. :(
+    - Work has been busy; less so than a couple of weeks ago, but still busy
+  - zaeph
+    - Lots of interesting projects going on the side, but no time for much things on
+  - mplsCorwin
+    - Arrived near the end of the meeting
+
+- Next actions from last week
+  - bandali:
+    - FH servers:
+      - Ask FH for more RAM on the BBB server
+      - Set up the vm01 server
+    - Listing the specs for the non-FH servers
+    - Podcast:
+      - Think about announcing the podcast
+  - sachac:
+    - Not here today
+  - zaeph:
+    - Was quite busy; didn’t have time to do much
+
+- Performance review for bbb
+  - Stress-test with Emacs-SF where we peaked at 33 concurrent viewers/participants
+    - Conclusions:
+      - CPU load:
+        - Load increases linearly with the number of video streams (screen-share or webcams) connected
+          - 6 video streams were enough to saturate the CPUs (90%)
+        - The number of people connected via audio barely influences load
+        - The high usage might be due to the RAM being full
+      - RAM usage:
+        - Increases with number of users connected (audio or video)
+        - In different scenarios (on top of the average usage of 2GB)
+          | Processing recording                                    | 0.5 GB |
+          | Conferencing (2 people) + Processing previous recording | 1 GB   |
+          | Conferencing (33 people)                                | 1.5 GB |
+  - Next things to address on this question:
+    - See if increasing the RAM results in less CPU usage
+      - If 8 GB does not work out, we’re happy to only ask 6 GB
+    - Working with the swap
+      - Decreasing the swapiness of the kernel might help
+      - Test RW speed (elsewhere than ~/tmp/~)
+    - Check if we can change the ffmpeg prioritisation for BBB (so as to get recordings out sooner, or to manage them ourselves)
+      - Does bbb spawn a ffmpeg process that we can investigate?
+
+- bandali’s investigation into Mailman
+  - Problem with FH email; probably an IPv6 problem?
+  - Will need more investigation, especially if we are to give an email to Emacs APAC (or other usergroups that desire it)
+
+- mplsCorwin: Talk with Nate Sales
+  - We want to talk with Nate Sales about CDN stuff
+  - mplsCorwin will be asking Nate Sales to come again on [2021-05-01 Sat]
+
+- mplsCorwin update on FH
+  - mplsCorwin is mentioning that we might get another server to handle
+  - Depending on the location
+
+
+- Next actions
+  - Project-based:
+    - bbb:
+      - See if increasing the RAM results in less CPU usage
+      - Working with the swap
+        - Decreasing the swapiness of the kernel might help
+        - Test RW speed (elsewhere than ~/tmp/~)
+      - Check if we can change the ffmpeg prioritisation for BBB (so as to get recordings out sooner, or to manage them ourselves)
+        - Does bbb spawn a ffmpeg process that we can investigate?
+  - People-based
+    - zaeph:
+      - Download all the recording sessions for EmacsConf & ERG
+        - → Still not up
+      - Email Emacs NYC (and Cc sachac and bandali) to ask them if they’d be interested in hosting their sessions on our BBB instance (on FH)
+        - Next session: [2021-05-03 Mon]
+        - Organisers to content:
+          - admin@emacsnyc.org (goes to both Eric & Zach)
+      - Do the same with Emacs ATX?
+        - Next session: [2021-05-05 Wed]
+    - sachac:
+      - Check if you have access to the bbb server
+    - bandali:
+      - Set up the vm01 server
+      - Listing the specs for the non-FH servers
+      - Podcast:
+        - Think about announcing the podcast
+
 * April 10, 2021 meeting
 - Next actions (from last session):
   - bandali: