Infrastructure

[Benson Muite]

Thanks to all those who attended the meetup yesterday. Writeups should
follow shortly.

As part of the discussion around sustainability, it would be helpful to
know if there are:
a) People interested in learning about managing online services
b) Programming languages that people are interested in using
c) Online services people want to use


At the moment the main tooling run for the LUG is a bot that
synchronizes between Telegram, IRC and Discord. IRC is nice, but if one
wants message history, you need to run a bouncer or other service. It
is not clear who is managing the bot, if it goes down this maybe
problematic. Telegram has a FOSS client, IRC is FOSS and Discord is not
FOSS though at present it can be bridged to other services.

There is interest in having some virtual meetups, do we want to run our
own video conferencing service? There are a number of solutions
available for this such as BigBlueButton[1], Galene[2] and
Janus[3]. BigBlueButton is easy to deploy, but expensive to keep
running continuosly. If we have Go developers, Galene is an option as
well. Janus is written in C, but would require developing/modifying
available front ends that would work well on low bandwidth connections
and also on mobile.

Is running an event ticketing platform of interest? This would benefit
other technology communities. One could even keep a small percentage of
ticket sales when tickets are bought to help cover operating costs.
This would have some administrative overhead though.

Would running our own Penpot[4] instance be of interest?

If you might be willing to devote time to one of the above, please reply
to this thread. A commitment of 2 hours per week over a year would
allow this to happen. After a year, we can reevaluate and change people
or discontinue an online deployment and/or replace it with something else.

1) https://bigbluebutton.org/
2) https://galene.org/
3) https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/
4) https://penpot.app/