On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 01:10:39AM -0800, D MacDougall wrote: [...]
> I wholeheatedly agree in principle and in circumstances where one has some > amount of influence. Thing is -- you always have some. Use it. Sometimes it's direct, sometimes via advocacy groups, the best being to combine both. > However, if your "partners" are a university which is using it to teach > hundreds or even thousands of classes at the same time and you are one > individual user, perhaps even a "newby" user at that, I'm not sure it would > be worth the time. Defaetism is your enemy's sharpest weapon. > In fact it likely wouldn't even be possible. Zoom scales to 1000s of users > amazingly well [...] Most of the time, the "normal" size is 30s to 40s of users. And I have seen BBB perform surprisingly well there. Two examples - our local bi-monthly free software meet, which is hybrid (about five local, about 20-30 remote). Big Blue Button works like a charm - the local music school, which started teleconferencing during the pandemic, which has a self-hosted and specially tuned BBB instance (for low latency: musicians tend to care about this). That's just in our small town. Cheers -- t
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