From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Freely available Jami video-conference channel for those interested
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:04:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee7be7ty.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello Guix,
Disclaimer: my employer is Savoir-faire Linux, which oversees the
development of Jami.
For a while, I've toyed with the idea that we could leverage Jami for
our video-conference needs, and contributed a jami-service-type a few
months ago to ease doing so [0].
A service is not strictly needed to setup a video-conferencing server
(later referred as a "rendezvous point") with Jami [1], it increases
availability and can be used without a normal user session. It also
provides some isolation from the main system since it runs in a separate
namespace (container), at least on Guix System.
The main challenges for a decent experience with the Jami rendezvous
point feature is its resource requirements; as the number of
participants grow, so does the required amount of network bandwidth and
CPU power.
As some kind of technology preview, I'd like to offer a freely available
Jami rendezvous point. Using either the jami-gnome or jami-qt client
available in Guix, you can connect to it by searching for the
'rdv-jami-guix' contact and initiating a call. Participants' audio and
video streams will automatically be mixed and streamed by the server.
On a Guix System, installing it to your user profile should suffice. On
a foreign distribution, you'll have to resort to a more complicated
launch procedure, thanks to D-Bus configuration [2]. Something like this
should work:
$ guix shell jami-gnome dbus glib gtk+ openssl nss-certs \
-- dbus-run-session jami-gnome
I hope it proves useful in fostering more live collaboration in the
community! Extra rendezvous points could also be deployed if needed.
If the experience is successful we could seek a better place to host
such service for the community (where it could be managed by the
collective of Guix sysadmins rather than myself for example).
Happy hacking,
Maxim
[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=69dcc24c9f0cdfea674eb690e7755d26a25ced2b
[1] https://jami.net/help/#answer14
[2] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48538
next reply other threads:[~2021-11-20 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-20 5:04 Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2021-11-20 6:40 ` Freely available Jami video-conference channel for those interested Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
2021-11-21 2:49 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-11-21 20:39 ` Luis Felipe
2021-11-21 21:39 ` zimoun
2021-11-22 23:29 ` zimoun
2021-11-23 2:14 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-11-23 12:06 ` zimoun
2021-11-23 21:28 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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