From 9ac9c1a1c2f3ae55e28de64c7feccf0e3e77df9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amin Bandali Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 02:45:54 -0400 Subject: add 2019 planning page --- 2019/planning.md | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2019/planning.md diff --git a/2019/planning.md b/2019/planning.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ad2b7a34 --- /dev/null +++ b/2019/planning.md @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +[[!meta title="Planning"]] + +The organizers and other volunteers hang out in the `#emacsconf` IRC +channel on `irc.freenode.net`. If you would like to get involved and +help us out with the planning, come by the IRC channel and say hi! + +We will be collecting various ideas and plans for organizing the +conference and adding excerpts from `#emacsconf` logs to this page. + +## Current plans for infrastructure + +The event will probably be comprised of two main parts: the video-call +part, and the live-stream part. We are separating these two, both for +speed/overhead/bandwidth concerns (if a large number of people decide +to "join the video-call" to watch), as well as moderation and +distraction concerns (having to moderate a large number of people in a +video-call, where only one of them is supposed to be speaking at a +time). + +So, we will use one series of software for the actual video-calls, +whereby speakers would take turns joining the call and deliver their +presentation, and another series of software for streaming the +video-call for everyone else to watch live. + +1. *Video-calling:* we currently have two candidates for the + video-call software, namely [Jitsi Meet](https://meet.jit.si), + [Jami](https://jami.net); under Apache-2.0 and GPLv3+ respectively. + I have not yet tried Jami, but Jitsi Meet seems to work fine in + Firefox and Trisquel's Abrowser (without LibreJS). Sadly, Jitsi + Meet currently doesn't have explicit license headers on their site, + so it seems that LibreJS blocks their JS. + + I will be opening a bug report for Jitsi Meet asking them to add + license information to their hosted version of Jitsi Meet so that + LibreJS would allow their JS to run. If they decide not to, we + could try and run a self-hosted instance, though then the challenge + would be the inter-continental latency: I'm fairly sure Jitsi + Meet's hosted version at meet.jit.si uses an array of servers + across the globe to help reduce latency, and that's something that + we certainly can't afford if we were to self-host. + +2. *Live-streaming:* this is the software most people (i.e. watchers) + will be facing. We will likely use a combination of OBS + Studio+Nginx+RTMP to capture the video call, and upload/stream it + to our server, where people would then be able to either watch the + stream in their web browser (similar to LibrePlanet's embedded + video player) or point their media player (such as VLC or mpv) + directly to the stream and skip the browser entirely. + + Greg Farough helpfully provided me with a series of [config + files](https://git.sr.ht/~ggoes/obs-nginx-rtmp) they had previously + used for setting up live-streaming as I described above. I will be + trying to set it up on our (well, my) server and test streaming. + Since my server is a fairly small (virtual) machine, I'm thinking + of asking the FSF sysadmins to see if they could kindly help out + with extra computing power and/or bandwidth on the day of the event + if needed. + +## Older notes for infrastructure + +We need to decide on a good way to host the conference. An important +priority here is to use as much Free Software for this as possible, +ideally 100%. + +At the moment, it seems Jitsi Meet is our best bet. Let's see if we +can self-host it and if it's usable with limited resources. If not, +we might have to use the flagship version hosted at +. + +Bandwidth-wise, it seems that Jitsi's videobridge may not be a +[bottleneck](//old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/cjam80/emacsconf_2019_call_for_proposals/evd0n8e/). +It seems using Jitsi could be feasible. + +At some point, we should probably contact the admins of meet.jit.si +and verify that it is okay to run a conference on their site. We +should also obviously try it out thoroughly well in advance of the +conference. + +Other candidates? + +- maybe ask Nextcloud to sponsor some talk/video hosting? +- maybe ask the people at for advice? -- cgit v1.2.3