Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-12-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! zimoun skribis: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 11:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Despite being a first experience, the live event went very smoothly (for >> me at least, with ungoogled-chromium), it was great to see faces during >> the break :-), and the discussions were all exciting for me. I

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-27 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 11:57, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Despite being a first experience, the live event went very smoothly (for > me at least, with ungoogled-chromium), it was great to see faces during > the break :-), and the discussions were all exciting for me. I agree > it’d be gre

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I too really enjoyed the day and the talks! Speakers did wonders like you wrote, but I think you, Simon, and Leo also did an amazing job getting that event up and running, thumbs up! Many thanks to Fosshost and to those who helped make that happen behind the scenes. Despite being a first ex

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:13:38PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: >> I'm happy it was an online event and I could participate. I live in >> India and travelling to Europe is a bank-breaking endeavour that is >> normally out of the question. I think even future offline Guix

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-26 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:13:38PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: > Guix Day was wonderful. Thank you very much for organizing it! More than > anything, I attended just to see people's faces, and put faces to > names. Seeing smiling faces is surprisingly motivating, especially in > lockdown times

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 03:42:02PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > Since people reported everyone turning their cameras on significantly > degrading performance, that is unlikely to be an accurate analogy. > My guess is that it's more similar to watching N simultaneous streams, > where N is the number of

Re: Why is BigBlueButton slow on GuixSystem (was: Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!)

2020-11-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 12:32:07PM +0100, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > In video conferencing clients need to do video encoding (when they use > their webcam) as well as video decoding in real time. This can be pretty > resource hungry (CPU) especially when there is no proper HW acceleration > by th

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-26 Thread raingloom
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:17:57 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:31:53PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > > Oh yea, regarding that, I really think it would have made a whole > > lot more sense if people just sent in a photo, instead of DDoS-ing > > the network. > > I don't know how

Why is BigBlueButton slow on GuixSystem (was: Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!)

2020-11-26 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
On 25.11.20 19:24, Leo Famulari wrote> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote>> Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled,>> except "Surfingkeys". Computer is something like this (neofetch):> > [...]> > Hm... it seems unlikely that this comp

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread raingloom
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00:17 +0100 zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 23:28, raingloom wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:26:37PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > >> > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 > >> > minutes, sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:31:53PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > Oh yea, regarding that, I really think it would have made a whole lot > more sense if people just sent in a photo, instead of DDoS-ing the > network. I don't know how BBB works nor did I measure it, but one can expect a videochat feed to

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread raingloom
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:47:46 +0100 Michael Rohleder wrote: > raingloom writes: > > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, > > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently > > it's still pretty heavy. > > I had a similar issue, but only in the

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 13:24, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote: >> Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled, >> except "Surfingkeys". >> >> Computer is something like this (neofetch): > > [...] > > Hm... it see

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 23:28, raingloom wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:26:37PM +0100, raingloom wrote: >> > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, >> > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently >> > it's still pretty heavy. What do

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread raingloom
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:53:21 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:26:37PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, > > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently > > it's still pretty heavy. > > Can

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote: > Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled, > except "Surfingkeys". > > Computer is something like this (neofetch): [...] Hm... it seems unlikely that this computer, which is relatively powerful, couldn

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:19:17PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Since this historical place would not change* “soon”, first because we > like it (I speak for myself) and second because it is accommodating, > ideas to deal with poor network are welcome. :-) The standard solution is to do cellular network

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Michael Rohleder
Hi Simon, zimoun writes: > As Leo asked: Can you say what web browser you were using? Bonus points > if you can give us the exact version, assuming it's from Guix. And what > kind of computer did you use? Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled, except "Surfingkeys".

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi Michael, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 11:47, Michael Rohleder wrote: > I had a similar issue, but only in the break where we had lots of > webcams: After about 5 or 6 webcams, my (slow) net connection became > satturated and BBB seems to loose more and more > informations/connections/gets out of sy

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread zimoun
Hi Arun, Thank you for your kind words. On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 21:13, Arun Isaac wrote: > I'm happy it was an online event and I could participate. I live in > India and travelling to Europe is a bank-breaking endeavour that is > normally out of the question. I think even future offline Guix D

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Arun Isaac
Leo Famulari writes: > Yes, absolutely! I do this sort of thing — hybrid events — for my day > job, and I could help make it happen in the future. Thank you, that is much appreciated! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-25 Thread Michael Rohleder
raingloom writes: > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently it's > still pretty heavy. I had a similar issue, but only in the break where we had lots of webcams: After about 5 or 6 webcams, my (slow) n

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:26:37PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > My only issue was that I had to reconnect audio every 3-4 minutes, > sometimes having to do a full reload. BBB was nice, but apparently it's > still pretty heavy. Can you say what web browser you were using? Bonus points if you can give

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-24 Thread raingloom
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:00:56 +0100 Julien Lepiller wrote: > Hi Guixers! > > Thank you for your participation to the Guix Days on this November > 22nd. We were around 60 people at all time, for a total of over 80 > people during the day. We hope to see you again soon on IRC or the > mailing list

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:13:38PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: > I'm happy it was an online event and I could participate. I live in > India and travelling to Europe is a bank-breaking endeavour that is > normally out of the question. I think even future offline Guix Days, > after the pandemic, should

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-24 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi, Guix Day was wonderful. Thank you very much for organizing it! More than anything, I attended just to see people's faces, and put faces to names. Seeing smiling faces is surprisingly motivating, especially in lockdown times. :-) I'm happy it was an online event and I could participate. I liv