I attended the LibrePlanet conference virually, and they did use Jitsi for presenters and moderators, but the video was re-streamed to attendees with Icecast/gstreamer. There's a short article here https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/how-to-livestream-a-conference-in-just-under-a-week with more links included about how they pulled it off.
I can report that it worked quite well, there were some technical difficulties, but no more than I'd expect at any tech conference ;) The most common things were that the presenters slides would stop advancing in the video stream, so having them available for users to follow along individually is a decent idea. Having a "moderator" or tech person handling the streaming side of things certainly helped presenters just think about their presentation All of the conference interaction was through IRC channels which worked fine. I "met" a few people and had some nice conversations, though chat during presentations could also be a bit distracting. Someone had also developed a "hallway" application which I didn't really get to use, but the idea was a virtual mingling space in the browser where you could see people hanging out in "groups" and go from conversation to conversation. It was very alpha state, and I can't seem to find a link to it now... Since then I've been using Jitsi for family calls and some community groups with decent success. This is just with Jitsi's hosting service, and it is reported to work better for bigger groups with a self hosted instance. > Does Jitsi also work in Firefox? It does work, but the application reports that the experience might be degraded. I've generally been using Chromium when participating. Its unfortunate, but it works. I've also found that it works much better if I reduce my screen resolution on my HiDPI laptop. I'd certainly love to participate in PilCon :) I'm still an incredible newbie with it, but something about it keeps me coming back. I've worked a bit on a beginners programming series using picolisp modeled after the games in Land of Lisp, but I'm not sure its developed enough to give a presentation on it, and it might be "boring" to the advanced engineers on the list :) Anyhow, I'd be happy to share any other experience from the LibrePlanet conference, and happy to try and attend a virtual PilCon when it happens. Hope everyone is well! -Grant -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
