Jitsi@scale: Day ① — “Everything the net touches is our kingdom”
At Exergy we are participating in the Jitsi Hackathon, and today (Monday 26th April 2021) was the kick-off. And wow did we kick…
Just before the opening bell, the project was joined by 3 folks from https://indiehosters.net/, a French non-profit association focused on open source software. Together with Floris van Geel from https://youpal.cloud/ that makes 5:
What’s next?
The first day was a bit chaotic, and there is little overlap between time zones which means the day was over before we knew it. Still, we managed to exchange some ideas:
- [ sorry — redacted, we’re trying to win a #Hackathon here! ]
- OK, a small hint: https://jbemmel.github.io/textyle/jitsi_at_scale/
To reach our goal of 800+ participants, we’re considering to build a hybrid online experience with a mass audience live stream ( e.g. using https://github.com/owncast/owncast ) and then selectively pulling in people in/out of a Jitsi interactive meeting (small group), complemented with a chat room (e.g. Rocket.Chat).
