Hey,
IMHO the agenda should be published as widely as possible and allow for people to drop in and out. For example, people just interested in starting with XMPP, might want to join just a few BoFs, not the whole day.
This is already planned, I will publish an agenda after the mini CfP with a list of things people want done, whether it is talks and presentations which because its done online we will hopefully get a few volunteers. So yeah you can just check the agenda and join the meeting as you please. Already planning on this, we also all need time to take a step away to take a break, in which the meeting will just likely be random chatter. Also as I said, if we use jitsi we can have breakout rooms, or hell we could totally have several meetings for different things, and then you can just click the corresponding thing on the agenda you want to join and then join the corresponding meeting for it. I am unsure how many people we will have interested in this however, I would assume on the initial try of this it will only be a few, so best not to go too big and be disappointed.
BigBlueButton is used for few-to-many presentations and scales really well (I’ve been on webinars with hundreds of people attending). It is primarily intended for webinars/conference-style online events and also supports breakouts etc.
I believe the free software foundation use it across their organisation. The reason I am in favour of using Jitsi, is I believe its far lighter to deploy, and secondly, it is built on XMPP, it literally integrates directly with prosody which people on the list are likely to know well. I feel like we should support XMPP based software, for XMPP based events. Thats just my opinion, if people want big blue button I can look at deploying that instead? I am also not against taking on volunteers to help make this happen, my only concern would be trust, I really don't want the initial run of this to be spoilt because someone I trusted to help out decided to throw a hissy fit and kick a bunch of people they don't like, as an example.
I don’t have admin/set-up experience with either Jitsi on BBB, so can only comment on the user/participant side.
Ah, well I have some knowledge of jitsi, I have used it and I have played with deploying it a long long time ago, so honestly its been a good few years since I have deployed it. it couldn't have changed that much I hope :p Anyways thanks for the suggestions, and I hope my response clears up some of your questions. Take care, -- Polarian Jabber/XMPP: polarian@icebound.dev