On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 18:54 -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > 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
Awesome, thanks Rick! > 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. Sounds wonderful and up my alley :). Checking that out for sure. > 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. Interesting, I might try one or both of those. > 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. I'll be installing on Devuan, likely Beowulf. I'll take notes about anything specific to Devuan or my install and pass them back to the list as well. Thanks again! Gabe _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
