Re: Virtual event: technical decision to make

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 19 octobre 2020 16:28:02 GMT-04:00, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> a 
écrit :
>Dear,
>
>The main question is now the streaming.  Three solutions are there:
>
> 1. Setup our own
> 2. Use the BBB instance of Fosshost <https://fosshost.org/>
> 3. Use the BBB instance of Aquilenet
>
>
>Personally, I am in favor #2 to apply <https://fosshost.org/apply>.  It
>is the same instance as ActivityPub Conf and Christopher L. Webber
>(dustyweb) did some networking.  If no objection before this week-end
>(Oct. 24th), I will go ahead and then apply.

I am also in favor of #2. It worked really well for the AP conf, and I don't 
think we'll attract more people, so it should work well :)

>
>
>If one (or several) readers want to go with #1, here some details by
>Amin Bandali.
>
>        > On the technical side, we would like to stream and avoid the
>        > Youtube facilities, therefore what is behind:
>        > <live.emacsconf.org>?
>        
>
>      Fantastic.  live.emacsconf.org is a simple static HTML site I put
>  together before last year's conference, and its main job is basically
>hosting an embedded <video> tag to the actual streams, which would be
>on
>        live0.emacsconf.org, our main stream server.
>
>live0.emacsconf.org runs Icecast (https://www.icecast.org), a
>free/libre
>  stream server.  I used OBS to stream my laptop's screen (playing back
>prerecorded talks or live sessions with presenters via jitsi) to live0.

To me, this is not a solution, because the audience would not be part of it. We 
want interaction, not live-streaming/broadcasting.

>Other point, if someone want to join to the committee (Julien,
>maintainers, me) to pick the topics from the proposals, feel free to
>say
>so.  It will consist to read the proposals and be quick-reactive to
>discuss it privately over mail or IRC.
>
>Last, feel free to spread the world:
>
>    <https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-1/>
>
>I am late to announce on guix-devel.  If someone beats me this evening.
>;-)
>
>
>
>All the best,
>simon