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Galène Videoconference Server
- rcarmo 4y agoI have been running Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/) for a few years[1] for a group of friends to do their monthly meetings during the COVID times, and tried this out a little while ago. I liked it, but there is still a fair amount of assemby required, and I hope they get it to the point where (like Jitsi) everything is a docker-compose away. [1]: https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-ubuntu-jitsi - all my tweaks, ready to deploy
- 97-109-107 4y agoI like jitsi, want to switch our whole organisation over. Why did you decide to have it deployed on your own instead of using https://meet.jit.si https://meet.jit.si?
- rcarmo 4y agoI'm in telco and I've done this all my career (actually started doing VC over ISDN as an undergrad), plus I could spare the cloud resources (a small 4 core VM was more than enough, and it was scripted to only be available - and with 4 cores - during work hours).
- djhaskin987 4y agoThis is a fantastic idea not simply because of saving money, but also to keep work at work. Too often people slack after hours expecting an immediate response. Someone where I work recently went so far as to uninstall slack from their phone so they could have a proper vacation.
- calgoo 4y agoI always uninstall teams when im going on more then 1 week of vacation. I always disable all notifications and only 1 person at work knows how to get in contact with me in case of an emergency.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agowhats your monthly bill like? have you looked at running those cheap VMs from say lowendbox.com ? there are good companies like racknerd.com ? not a shill, just a user.... the reason for this is that i have "tried" to go and buy or use one of the 3 major cloud services but they are too darn expensive and complicated. this way you get a panel and an ssh and do what you want for a fixed price
- rcarmo 4y agoAround $50 for a B4ms in Azure, automated to shut down overnight, etc. Enough for around ten people to use simultaneously.
- jech 4y agoYou should be able to get much better value with a self-managed solution. For instance, the server at <https://galene.org:8443 https://galene.org:8443> is running on a "Value" OVH VPS (<https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/>) which is rented for under 6€/month. During lockdown, It was regularly used for lectures with 70 students or so, but that's an unfair comparison, since students tend to keep their camera off during the lecture.
- jech 4y ago> there is still a fair amount of assemby required I'm not sure what you mean. A from scratch installation of Galene is just git clone https://github.com/jech/galene/ cd galene CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags='-s -w' mkdir groups echo '{"presenter":[{}]}' > groups/demo.json ./galene & Do you think it could be made any simpler?