On Thursday 30. April 2020 20.39.01 Carsten Agger wrote:
I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption but powerful computer to set up as a video conferencing/communication server at home as a contribution to a very apparent need and as an alternative to FaceTime, Zoom and whatever.
I would be interested to know what hardware choice you make, in fact.
(I have been looking at low-power desktop solutions, but I am now starting to think that various embedded/industrial computers that might have been viable once upon a time are now likely to struggle with the bloated Web experience and GPU-heavy desktop effects bonanza imposed on us today.)
Do people have experience with this? I've tried having a Jitsi Meet instance once and found it difficult to tweak for really good performance.
I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and promises to be easy to install.
Do anyone have experience running these things for practical use?
I don't have any such experience, but I did just encounter the following document of potential interest:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2020/20200330-WorkRemoteSafely.html
This is obviously pertinent to the FSFE Wiki page about remote working, too.
Paul