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Table of Contents

TODO Timeline

CFP [2024-06-30 Sun]  
CFP deadline [2024-09-20 Fri] 82
Speaker notifications [2024-09-27 Fri]  
Publish schedule [2024-10-25 Fri]  
Video submission deadline [2024-11-08 Fri] 49
EmacsConf [2024-12-07 Sat] 29

We like to have at least a month to work on audio normalization and transcription, and we want speakers to have at least a month to work on their videos (considering early submissions will already have gotten started on processing).

About this document

Tags:

  • conforg: Requires access to private conf.org repository

Communications plan

Objectives:

  • keep everyone in the loop without them feeling like they’re overloaded

Everyone:

  • ☐ Call for participation (speakers and volunteers)
  • ☐ Reminder about CFP
  • ☐ Last call

Speakers:

  • ☐ Send all speakers backstage access and upload instructions
  • ☐ Send all speakers check-in instructions

Volunteers:

  • ☐ Send captioning volunteers the backstage info
  • ☐ Send past captioning volunteers an invitation to participate - ask when there’s a lot of load
  • ☐ Ask for help with audio processing

Good/better/best

This table makes it easier to move the slider depending on who wants to volunteer and how much we can get done. At some point, we’ll figure out how to track our current status so we know what we need to scramble to do in order to get the conference off the ground. bold is our current goal. Feel free to volunteer for anything that interests you!

  Good Better Best
Streaming Regular stream + alternate streams on PeerTube + alternate streams on YouTube
480p Same on live Separate node Ansible setup
Audio normalization Core org handling it Other volunteer Multiple volunteers
Video resolution Usual reminders Extra reminders Everyone remembering to use a large font size
Intros Standard, recorded Reviewed by speakers More details/context
Pad v1.9.7 v2.x  

Phases

DONE Draft CFP

Draft linked pages

  • ☑ cfp
  • ☑ submit page
  • ☑ year index
  • ☑ volunteer page

DONE Check with other organizers

DONE Post CFP in the usual places

emacsconf-discuss, reddit.com/r/emacs, Emacs News, emacs-tangents, Mastodon, X

DONE Draft schedule

Graphical view of the scheduleSchedule for SaturdaySaturday 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-open 9:10- 9:20 Writing academic papers in Org-Roampapers 9:40-10:00 Managing writing project metadata with org-modeproject10:20-10:40 The Future of Orgorg-update11:00-11:10 Colour your Emacs with easecolor11:30-11:50 Emacs, eev, and Maxima - now!maxima 1:00- 1:10 My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs themetheme 1:30- 1:45 Watering my (digital) plant with Emacs timerswater 1:55- 2:35 Emacs as a shellshell 2:45- 3:05 Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suitecasual 3:25- 3:45 New in hyperdrive.el: org-transclusion, easy installation, and more!hyperdrive 4:05- 4:15 Emacs Writing Studiowriting 4:25- 4:50 Emacs 30 Highlightsemacs30 5:00- 5:10 Saturday closing remarkssat-close10:00-10:20 Gypsum: my clone of Emacs and ELisp written in Schemegypsum10:40-11:00 An experimental Emacs core in Rustrust11:20-11:45 p-search: a local search engine in Emacsp-search 1:00- 1:10 Exploring shared philosophies in Julia and Emacsjulia 1:25- 1:45 Beguiling Emacs: Guile-Emacs relaunched!guile 1:55- 2:05 Committing secrets with git using sops-modesecrets 2:25- 3:25 Elisp and McCLIMmcclim 3:45- 4:05 Reproducibly building Emacs: “Hey your checksum is the same as mine!”repro9 AM10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PMSchedule for SundaySunday 9:00- 9:10 Sunday opening remarkssun-open 9:10- 9:20 Unlocking linked data: replacing specialized apps with an Org-based semantic wikilinks 9:30- 9:50 Emacs regex compilation and future directions for expressive pattern matchingregex10:00-10:20 Survival of the skillest: Thriving in the learning junglelearning10:30-11:15 About Blee: enveloping our own autonomy directed digital ecosystem with Emacsblee11:30-11:45 Fun things with GNU Hyperbolehyperbole 1:00- 1:20 HyWiki: Fast, hyperlinked note-taking with no markup requiredhywiki 1:40- 1:55 PGmacs: browsing and editing PostgreSQL databases from Emacspgmacs 2:15- 2:35 Literate programming for the 21st Centuryliterate 2:55- 3:05 An example of a cohesive student workflow in Emacsstudents 3:15- 3:35 So you want to be an Emacs-fluencer?sharing 4:00- 4:30 Transducers: finally, ergonomic data processing for Emacs!transducers 4:50- 5:00 Sunday closing remarkssun-close9 AM10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM

Legend:

  • light blue: constraint is <= a time
  • peach: constraint is >= a time
  • solid line: Q&A will be through BigBlueButton web conference
  • dashed line: Q&A will be IRC/Etherpad during the event or e-mail after the event

Notes:

  • Updates:
    • [2024-10-27 Sun] Removed graph, moved p-search earlier; also learning needs to be in the morning, so I moved pgmacs and org-teach around.
    • [2024-10-22 Tue] Swapped org-teach and blee
    • [2024-10-21 Mon] Extended blee
    • [2024-10-17 Thu] Added org-update to Saturday morning, moving org-teach to Sunday afternoon
    • [2024-10-15 Tue] Swapped students and literate for availability reasons
    • [2024-10-13 Sun] Moved hyperdrive to the afternoon (swapping with flp) because of changed availability
    • [2024-10-12 Sat] I fixed the time constraint for students (needs to be in the afternoon), so I moved hyperbole to the morning.
  • General approach:
    • I’ve mostly tried to alternate IRC/pad Q&A with live Q&A.
    • 1.5 tracks keeps things faster-paced than the 2-track option.
  • Sat:
    • Gen track:
      • papers, project, org-teach, flp, color should be pretty general
      • color and theme are both theme-related. color needs to be in the morning and theme needs to be in the afternoon, so I put them on either side of the lunch break.
      • Other afternoon talks: water and shell are by the same speaker. casual, hyperdrive, and writing will probably be good for a general audience. These speakers are only available in the afternoon, so this part of the schedule is a bit tight.
      • I put emacs30 at the end of Saturday to act sort of as a keynote. Closing remarks on Saturday are usually very light, so we could skip them.
    • Dev track:
  • Sun:
    • Sunday morning last year had some packet loss issues at around 9:30, so we’ll start with some talks that don’t have BBB Q&A: students, links, regex
    • blee and language are probably general-audience
    • pgmacs, regex, and transducers are all development-oriented, but are on the general track for scheduling purposes. transducers can only be on Sunday afternoon at 4pm because of availability.
    • I’ve separated hyperbole and hywiki by lunch so that people who are interested in that can attend the live Q&A for both without worrying about missing things.
    • learning, sharing, literate will probably be good for a general audience

DONE Prepare shift calendar, ask people to sign up

AM: 9-12 PM EST, PM: 1-5 PM EST (plus a little extra for setup/transition)

Saturday Dec 7 2024

  Start End Host Streamer Checkin IRC Pad Coord
Gen AM 09:00 12:00 zaeph sachac sachac     sachac
Gen PM 13:00 17:00 zaeph sachac sachac     sachac
Dev AM 10:00 12:00 corwin sachac sachac     sachac
Dev PM 13:00 17:00 corwin sachac sachac     sachac

Sunday Dec 8 2024

  Start End Host Streamer Checkin IRC Pad Coord
Gen AM 09:00 12:00 zaeph sachac corwin     sachac
Gen PM 13:00 17:00 zaeph sachac corwin     sachac

Backups:

  • dev host/streamer:
  • gen host/streamer:
  • checkin, IRC, pad:

Interested in a shift? Please e-mail emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org and we’ll help you figure out what you need to learn.

`(setq emacsconf-shifts
       (list
       ,@(apply #'append
               (mapcar
                (lambda (day)
                  (let ((headers
                                                 (mapcar
                                                    (lambda (field)
                                                        (intern
                                                         (concat
                                                            ":"
                                                            (downcase
                                                             (if (string-match org-link-bracket-re field)
                                                                     (match-string 2 field)
                                                                 field)))))
                          (seq-drop (car (cadr day)) 3))))
                    (mapcar
                     (lambda (row)
                          (apply #'append
                                 (list 'list :id
                                       (when (string-match "^\\([^ ]+\\) \\(AM\\|PM\\)" (car row))
                                         (format "%s-%s-%s"
                                                 (car day)
                                                 (downcase (match-string 2 (car row)))
                                                 (downcase (match-string 1 (car row)))))
                                       :track
                                       (if (string-match "^Gen" (car row)) "General" "Development")
                                       :start
                                       (format "%sT%s:00%s"
                                               (elt day 2)
                                                                                             (elt row 1)
                                               emacsconf-timezone-offset)
                                       :end
                                       (format "%sT%s:00%s"
                                               (elt day 2)
                                               (elt row 2)
                                               emacsconf-timezone-offset))
                                 (seq-map-indexed
                                  (lambda (value index)
                                    (unless (string= value "")
                                      (list (elt headers index) value)))
                                  (seq-drop row 3))))
                        (cdr (cadr day)))
                      ))
                (list
                 (list "sat" sat "2024-12-07")
                 (list "sun" sun "2024-12-08"))))))

Rerecord intros

TODO Redo pkal pronunciation :emacsconf:record:

kǎlud͡ʑert͡ʃit͡ɕ - zaeph’s guess is kah-loo-dyer-tshitch

Next, we have "Emacs 30 Highlights" by Philip Kaludercic.
You can ask questions in the web conference
by joining from the talk page,
or you can ask questions through Etherpad or IRC.

TODO Rerecord intro for Ihor Radchenko and Bastien Guerry

zaeph will probably pronounce this so much better than I can. =)

Next, we have "The future of Org",
by Ihor Radchenko and Bastien Guerry.
They will answer questions via web conference.
You can join using the URL from the talk page
or ask questions through Etherpad or IRC.

TODO Rerecord Eev intro with MAC-SYM-A pronunciation :record:emacsconf:

My name in the intro is perfect, but Maxima comes from Macsyma, and it is pronounced mac - sym (<- as in “symbolic”) a…

Next, we have "Emacs, eev, and Maxima - now!",
by Eduardo Ochs.
You can ask questions via Etherpad or IRC.

TODO Rerecord Vincent Conus using psitransfer version :record:emacsconf:

/ssh:orga@media.emacsconf.org:/srv/upload/emacsconf-papers/0b67be8b-10a1-48f8-9a7b-e73a4c46b9db

Next, we have "Writing academic papers in Org-Roam",
by Vincent Conus.
He will answer questions via web conference.
You can join using the URL from the talk page
or ask questions through Etherpad or IRC.

TODO Rerecord Joseph Turner with new title :emacsconf:record:

2024-12-02 Emacs news

New in hyperdrive.el: quick install, peer graph, transclusion!

Next, we have "New in hyperdrive.el: quick install,
peer graph, transclusion!" by Joseph Turner.
You can ask questions in the web conference
by joining from the talk page,
or you can ask questions through Etherpad or IRC.

TODO Check EmacsConf infrastructure :project:

  • ☑ IRC
  • ☐ Streaming assets
  • ☐ Publishing to the wiki
  • ☐ Web conference
  • ☐ OBS
  • ☐ Publishing to the media server
  • ☐ Etherpad
  • ☐ Streaming
  • ☐ Toobnix
  • ☐ YouTube

TODO BigBlueButton

Notes

install, sizes

[2024-11-19 Tue]

Prerequisites:

  • BBB requires 4 CPU cores before it will install. bbb-conf.sh is fairly straightforward, so I guess we could spin down and then spin up again.

Steps:

  1. Run the BBB installer: ~./bbb-install.sh -v jammy-300 -s bbb.emacsverse.org -e emacsconf@sachachua.com -g ~
  2. sudo apt install bbb-playback-video and then follow the instructions at Server Customization | BigBlueButton .
  3. https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/3.0/administration/customize/#mute-all-users-on-startup

I think it needs 4 CPU cores for regular running, too.

Sizing to shared 8GB 4 core for testing

linode-cli linodes resize 67329098 --type g6-standard-4 --allow_auto_disk_resize false

takes about 2 minutes

Sizing to shared nanode, dormant

linode-cli linodes resize 67329098 --type g6-nanode-1 --allow_auto_disk_resize true

echo "notify-send 'Resizing BBB...'; linode-cli linodes resize 67329098 --type g6-nanode-1 --allow_auto_disk_resize true" | at 'now + 1 hour'

Resize disk linode-cli linodes disks-list 67329098 linode-cli linodes disk-resize 67329098 131474261 –size 24000

/var/bigbluebutton is where recordings will go

https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/post-resize-disk

https://www.linode.com/community/questions/21942/how-can-i-schedule-resizing-a-linode

backing up

[2024-11-20 Wed] ssh root@66.175.208.243 ’tar zcvf - /var/bigbluebutton /etc/bigbluebutton /root/greenlight-v3 /usr/local/bigbluebutton /usr/share/bbb-web’ > bbb-backup.tar.gz

DONE Set up bbb with new domain name

If changing IP:

bbb-conf –setip bbb-new.example.com service nginx stop certbot certonly service nginx start edit /etc/hosts, add domain name

Certificate is saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/bbb.emacsverse.org/fullchain.pem Key is saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/bbb.emacsverse.org/privkey.pem

edit etc/nginx/sites-available/bigbluebutton to add server_name /etc/letsencrypt/live

grep in /etc for the old domain

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight/issues/1794

  • change greenlight/.env

    curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not

establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above. .curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name ’bbb.emacsverse.org’ More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

haproxy is already listening on 443

Fine, let’s just reinstall it, harumph.

Create the users:

user_id = User.find_by_email(“sacha@sachachua.com”).id

… ugh, what’s going on, why is free only reporting a little memory? ah, we’re still resizing, that’s why

STARTED Set up moderator access codes for all the meeting rooms, and make it so people can start the meeting

room.get_setting

yeah, that’s not good, rails console keeps quitting! docker-compose down docker-compose up

1:M 28 Nov 2024 17:16:23.441 # WARNING Memory overcommit must be enabled! Without it, a background save or replication may fail under low memory condition. Being disabled, it can can also cause failures without low memory condition, see https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/1328. To fix this issue add ’vm.overcommit_memory = 1’ to /etc/sysctl.conf and then reboot or run the command ’sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1’ for this to take effect.

docker-compose down docker-compose up -d

makes it more reliable, it seems

room = Room.find_by_id(’8b3f36b1-7aee-459d-b963-bddcfe03e1db’)

o = MeetingOption.find_by_name(’glAnyoneCanStart’) o.default_value = ’true’ o.save!

o = MeetingOption.find_by_name(’glModeratorAccessCode’)

https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/p4o-29n-esd-ow5/join

(dolist (talk (seq-filter (lambda (o)
                                                        (and (plist-get o :bbb-room)
                                                                 (not (plist-get o :bbb-mod-code))))
                                                    (emacsconf-publish-prepare-for-display (emacsconf-get-talk-info))))
    (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
     (format "window.location.href = \"%s\""
                     (replace-regexp-in-string "/join" "" (plist-get talk :bbb-room)))
     t)
    (sleep-for 3)
    (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
     "document.querySelector('button[data-rr-ui-event-key=\"settings\"]').click()" t)
    (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
     "document.querySelector('input#glAnyoneCanStart').checked = true")
    (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
     "document.querySelector('input#muteOnStart').checked = true")
    (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
     "document.querySelectorAll('.border-end button')[2].click()" t)
    (let ((code (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
                             "document.querySelector('.access-code-input input').value" t)))
        (message "Setting %s to %s" (plist-get talk :slug) code)
        (emacsconf-set-property-from-slug
         talk "BBB_MOD_CODE"
         code)
        (sit-for 2)))

(dolist (talk (seq-filter (lambda (o)
                                                        (plist-get o :bbb-room))
                                                    (emacsconf-publish-prepare-for-display (emacsconf-get-talk-info))))
    (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
     (format "window.location.href = \"%s\""
                     (replace-regexp-in-string "/join" "" (plist-get talk :bbb-room)))
     t)
    (sleep-for 3)
    (spookfox-js-injection-eval-in-active-tab
     "document.querySelector('button[data-rr-ui-event-key=\"settings\"]').click()" t)
    (sleep-for 3))

DONE Figure out what’s going on with BBB!

DONE Create meeting rooms for each speaker

Now that I’m more familiar with BigBlueButton and Greenlight, I don’t have to use Spookfox to automate creating BigBlueButton rooms in Mozilla Firefox. I can just create them through the Rails console.

docker exec -it greenlight-v3 bundle exec rails c

user_id = User.find_by_email(“sacha@sachachua.com”).id

docker exec -it greenlight-v3 bundle exec rails console

(mapconcat (lambda (group)
                    (format
                     "Room.create(user_id: user_id, name: \"%s - %s\")\n"
                     (plist-get (cadr group) :speakers)
                     (string-join (mapcar (lambda (talk) (plist-get talk :slug))
                                                                             (cdr group)))))
                (emacsconf-mail-groups (emacsconf-active-talks (emacsconf-get-talk-info)))
                "")

Print out the room IDs with

Room.all.each { |x| puts x.friendly_id + " " + x.name }; nil

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight/issues/1925

After about 6 seconds, the rails console quits. 502 bad gateway

aaaaaaaaaah

DONE Check BBB audio from my phone

DONE Create accounts for corwin

CANCELLED Customize BBB to process at night

https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/3.0/administration/customize/ Change processing time

On a 2.2.x BigBlueButton server, the server will process recordings as meetings finish. You can restrict the recording processing interval to specific hours by creating the file /etc/systemd/system/bbb-record-core.timer.d/override.conf with the contents

[Timer] OnActiveSec= OnUnitInactiveSec= OnCalendar=21,22,23,00,01,02,03:*:00 Persistent=false

and do systemctl daemon-reload. This file overrides the timing of when systemd runs bbb-record-core.target. In the above example, recordings will start processing between 21:00 and 03:59.

TODO Change background presentation

https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/3.0/administration/customize/#change-the-default-presentation

TODO Modify landing page

/var/www/bigbluebutton-default/assets/index.html keep backup copy as it will be overwritten when bbb-conf is called

TODO Change default welcome message

https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/3.0/administration/customize/#change-the-default-welcome-message

TODO Change html5 title

/usr/share/bigbluebutton/html5-client/private/config/settings.yml

TARGET=/usr/share/bigbluebutton/html5-client/private/config/settings.yml yq e -i “.public.app.clientTitle = \”EmacsConf\“” $TARGET

TODO Try live captions

https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/3.0/administration/customize/#enable-live-captions

TODO Explore meeting layout? Default to custom, hosts will need to drag people’s webcam over if there’s a share

IRC web client

DONE Ask libera.chat to increase connections allowed from chat.emacsconf.org on Dec 7 and 8

IRC announcements

DONE Confirm manual IRC announcements

TODO Confirm automated IRC announcements from res

Media

TODO Switch public media to unprotected root before the conference

  1. Clear public media directory.
  2. Set media_protect_root to false in Ansible group_vars/all.yml.
  3. ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml prod-playbook.yml --tags media

You can generate the index with emacsconf-publish-update-media.

TODO Publishing resources to the wiki

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml prod-playbook.yml –tags publish

TODO Publishing videos to the media server

Playing videos, switching to windows

TODO Generate test videos for everything

TODO Document how to get that set up again

Etherpad

TODO Generate pads for all the talks

TODO Generate the main index

TODO Do a dry run

DONE Generate all the test assets

TODO Test connecting to VNC and streaming via OBS

Resizing

live0: 64GB front0: 32GB meet: 64GB

TODO Resize nodes before production

live0: 64GB front0: 32GB meet: 64GB

TODO Resize nodes after production

live0: nanode front0: nanode

TODO Resize meet after production

meet: nanode

Processes and notes

Hosting

TODO Finalize host for dev track

ERC

Some convenient commands are defined in emacsconf-erc.el.

/opall Grant operator status in the Emacsconf channels
/deopall Remove operator status in the Emacsconf channels
/conftopic Set the first part of the topic

Decisions

BigBlueButton replacement (BBB)

The server running bbb.emacsverse.org has been decommissioned, since the nonprofit that shared it with us is defunct.

  • We’d like to figure out what our live Q&A setup is going to be for EmacsConf 2024 (Dec 7-8).
  • Nice to have: Hosting for other Emacs meetups like Emacs APAC and OrgMeetup
  • Stats from last year: 31 meetings, 84 unique users, 62 max simultaneous users, 6 max simultaneous meetings, 27 max users in one meeting, 36 unique talking
    • also includes some notes on hosting
  • Nice thing about running our own server: we can make one room per speaker, pre-assign their URLs, and let people stay as long as they want in recorded Q&A sessions

Recommendation:

We spin up a shared CPU 4GB under bandali’s Linode account (for bandwidth pooling and easier reimbursement), do the setup/testing, scale down as small as possible over the next few weeks, scale up to dedicated CPU 16GB a day or two before the conference, and keep it at that level until the recordings are all done. I have access to that Linode account, so I can set it up. If bandali can configure emacsverse.org to be handled by Linode, I can manage the DNS changes, or he can change bbb.emacsverse.org to the IP address of the new node.

Some options:

  • Linode with 16GB RAM and 8 cores

    • Advantages: can experiment with both Galene and BBB, manage things ourselves, have filesystem access
    • Disadvantages: needs someone to do it
    • Base pricing
      • Shared CPU 4GB 80GB storage: hourly USD 0.04, monthly USD 24
      • Dedicated CPU 16GB: hourly USD 0.22, daily 5.28, weekly 36.96, monthly USD 144 - meets minimum requirements and can probably support 200 simultaneous (FAQ)
      • Shared CPU 8GB 160GB storage: hourly USD 0.07
      • Shared CPU 16GB 320GB storage: hourly USD 0.14
      • Last year
      • Block storage: $1/10GB/month
        • 125M/hour - FAQ
        • In 2023, we had 31 hours of trimmed recordings (main + answers),
          • (* 31 0.125) 3.875, oh, maybe we can get away with 10GB storage and add another chunk of 10GB midway if we need it, or extend the dedicated
          • Actually, block storage probably not needed if we’re going to keep the big instance up until the recordings are done
    • Ideas
      • We’re here – Option B: Run a slightly larger shared CPU instance from now until shortly before the conference, then scale up in case BBB does not work for installation/testing with less memory; block storage probably not needed
        • (* 0.07 24 7 3) USD 35.28 for 8GB, total (+ 35.28 36.96) USD 72.24
        • (* 0.14 24 7 3) USD 70.56 for 16GB, total (+ 70.56 36.96) USD 107.52
      • Option A: Run a small instance continuously, scale up for the conference, pull the recordings off, spin the instance down - est total USD 60+tax
        • There are three weeks between now and the conference (* 0.04 24 7 3) USD 20
        • Last year, recordings were available within three days after the conference
        • Let’s plan for a week at high capacity. (* 0.22 24 7) USD 36.96
        • and a month of 10GB, possibly up to 30GB. USD 3
        • That’s probably small enough that it doesn’t make as much sense to try to fully spin down for a week in between now and the conference (* 0.04 24 7) - which would save USD 6.72 but require figuring out backing up, etc.
  • Ask FSF if we can borrow their BBB or Galene, maybe limit it to cycling among 6 or 7 rooms

    • Waiting for feedback; Corwin has asked them
  • Pay for BigBlueButton hosting; can we find one that’s compatible with our commitment to freedom?
  • Try to squeeze it onto res.emacsconf.org
    • Tricky to run on a shared server; it likes to use a lot of ports and strongly recommends running it on its own server
  • Go back to using meet.jit.si?
    • Free:
      • Need to check speed, reliability
      • Can send RTMP from the meeting itself
      • [2024-11-13 Wed] I attended Ihor’s OrgMeetup, which he hosted on meet.jit.si. I think he had bandwidth issues at some point and we lost his audio. I remember we ran into that problem before, too, when we used Jitsi for one of the Emacsconfs. Free Jitsi hosting might not be the right fit for us.
    • Paid: USD 99/month + $0.01/min for recordings + $0.01 min (optional) for RTMP streaming
  • Galene?
    • [2024-10-31 Thu] I checked out Galene in the last Emacs Berlin meeting. It’s promising, but I think the user interface might still need a bit of work. Simple deployment (run one Go binary, I think), but muting/unmuting doesn’t trigger enabling the microphone, and the chat was buggy to get to on my mobile device. Supposed to have support for raising hands.

Support code

(defun my-ox-link-path (link _ info)
    (let* ((raw-path (org-element-property :path link)))
        (setq raw-path
                    (org-export-file-uri
                     (org-publish-file-relative-name raw-path info)))
        ;; Possibly append `:html-link-home' to relative file
        ;; name.
        (let ((home (and (plist-get info :html-link-home)
                                         (org-trim (plist-get info :html-link-home)))))
            (when (and home
                                 (plist-get info :html-link-use-abs-url)
                                 (not (file-name-absolute-p raw-path)))
                (setq raw-path (concat (file-name-as-directory home) raw-path))))
        raw-path))

(defun my-org-md-link (link desc info)
    (if (string= (org-element-property :type link) "file")
            (let ((path (my-ox-link-path link desc info)))
                (if (string= (file-name-extension path) "svg")
                        (with-temp-buffer
                            (insert-file-contents-literally path)
                            (buffer-string))
                    (org-md-link link desc info)))
        (org-md-link link desc info)))

(with-eval-after-load 'ox-md
    (setf
     (alist-get 'link (org-export-backend-transcoders (org-export-get-backend 'md)))
     'my-org-md-link))