Quoting Gabe Stanton via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > This is incentive for me to take another crack at getting a jitsi > instance running. It will probably take me a couple months to get one > working since time is limited and there are many things higher on the > priorities list, but I'll work on that and get back to the list when I > have that running.
Here are my (raw, and I stress, _raw_) notes from setting up Jitsi Meet (on Amazon EC2, on Debian 10) in a tearing hurry for the 2020 World Science Fiction Convention (the '2020 Worldcon'), which was forced by the exploding pandemic to suddenly convert itself into a virtual event, instead of being in Wellington, NZ: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/jitsi.txt Here's the 2020 Worldcon's (CoNZealand's) Web site. https://conzealand.nz/ The Worldcon is an all-volunteer-run, all-volunteer-staffed literary science fiction convention held annually somewhere on planet Earth (so far ;-> ). Usual attendance is about 3000 people who fly in from everywhere. A big Worldcon, like London's in 2014, is about 8000 in-person attendees. My instance of Jitsi Meet had no performance problems whatsoever for the usage CoNZealand made -- though I was prepared to spin up more instances of Jitsi Videobridge2 if necessary to share the load. Honestly, once I stopped making a couple of dumb mistakes in site configuration (preserved in my raw notes), it was pretty darned easy to configure. There are sundry site-admin customisations that can be done, which I didn't fully cover in my notes, but aren't that hard to find, and I might even be able to refresh my memory about those if you need to ask. As you might gather from my notes, I got directives from above that changed during the project about whether to try to shim in an oauth2 authentication layer (non-default) and then whether or not to configure an operating mode where only a list of people (staff) with prearranged admin credentials were permitted to create Jitsi Meet rooms. The eventual deployment did not include the latter security controls -- making it work pretty much like meet.jit.si . However, those security controls weren't difficult to do if desired. Before any asks: No, I didn't do that on Devuan because I was in a huge hurry and had a known-good Amazon EC2 AMI of Debian 10 at my disposal. I expect that my setup instructions will work just great on Devuan. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
