8 Jun
2026
8 Jun
'26
8:49 p.m.
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,
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Polarian
Jabber/XMPP: polarian(a)icebound.dev