Coronavirus: Fedora RTC solutions and YOU

[Daniel Pocock]

As noted[0] in January, free software solutions have a role to play in
the current crisis.

Some background is at the bottom of this email.

In Europe, we've already seen broadband networks being overloaded and
some popular meeting services are periodically offline.  I've received a
lot of queries from people about how to host their RTC solutions in
their own local facilities for greater resilience.

You can help, here are some ideas but feel free to share your own
suggestions

- try https://FedRTC.org

- join[1] the FreeRTC discuss list

- help with the packages behind FedRTC.org (asio and reSIProcate).
reSIProcate needs a review[2] to be updated in Fedora and EPEL

- translate[3] the phone into your language

- help migrate[4] FedRTC.org off my server to Fedora infrastructure, I
would prefer to focus on development and less hosting.  Helping to host
any other solution is good too, for example, Jitsi Meet provides a
Docker image[5] now.

- embed[6] the JSCommunicator into any other web application, CMS plugin
or framework.  The DruCall[7] and WPCall[8] for Wordpress examples are
interesting.  You can simply clone[9] FedRTC, remove the Fedora logo and
build your own site.  It also includes a very simple example of FAS SSO
integration.

- try other solutions, for example, Jami[10] is a more decentralized
peer-to-peer solution

- help package any other solution that isn't in Fedora yet and share
your work on the FreeRTC[1] list

- share your experiences through your blogs, give feedback to developers
or even send pull requests.

While my personal focus is SIP, I'd also like to highlight the role
played by the XMPP community.  Dave Cridland circulated a message[11]
today about the use of XMPP in the UK health service: "If the growth
curve holds, this week will see more messages than the system had last
year."



Background - Short term:
A lot more countries are going into lock-downs this week.  Italy has
told businesses to either work from home or shut down.  Wuhan has been
in lockdown for about 8 weeks now and it looks like another month at least.

Background - Long term:
Experts are saying that it could be a game of whack-a-mole, chasing
Coronavirus around the globe for 12 months or more.  After the 3-4
months of lockdowns, countries will not want regressions and they may
continue with severe border restrictions and limits on aviation.  It
might be a full 12 months before any large international events can take
place.


0. https://lists.freertc.org/pipermail/discuss/2020-January/000036.html
1. https://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1815936
3.
https://github.com/opentelecoms-org/jscommunicator/tree/master/internatio...
4.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
5. https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
6.
https://github.com/opentelecoms-org/jscommunicator/blob/master/INTEGRATIO...
7. http://drucall.org/
8. https://github.com/mesutcang/wpcall
9. https://github.com/opentelecoms-org/fedrtc-org
10. https://jami.net/
11. https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/members/2020-March/009141.html

[Daniel Pocock]

Answering some common queries:

Users without a Fedora account can make calls to a Fedora user too, they
can go to https://freephonebox.net and type in the address, e.g.
pocock(a)fedrtc.org

You can also give people a URL to call you, e.g.

https://freephonebox.net/?dial=pocock%40fedrtc.org

https://freephonebox.net/?dial=pocock%40fedrtc.org&video=false

or embed the URLs in your web site, email signature, etc

Please note I make no claim to be a front-end developer.  JSCommunicator
is meant to be a bridge between the front-end/GUI and the back end.  If
anybody wants to make the front-end more pretty for fedrtc then feel
free to fork it and we'll look at how to work together.

Regards,

Daniel


On 22/03/2020 23:04, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> As noted[0] in January, free software solutions have a role to play in
> the current crisis.
> 
> Some background is at the bottom of this email.
> 
> In Europe, we've already seen broadband networks being overloaded and
> some popular meeting services are periodically offline.  I've received a
> lot of queries from people about how to host their RTC solutions in
> their own local facilities for greater resilience.
> 
> You can help, here are some ideas but feel free to share your own
> suggestions
> 
> - try https://FedRTC.org
> 
> - join[1] the FreeRTC discuss list
> 
> - help with the packages behind FedRTC.org (asio and reSIProcate).
> reSIProcate needs a review[2] to be updated in Fedora and EPEL
> 
> - translate[3] the phone into your language
> 
> - help migrate[4] FedRTC.org off my server to Fedora infrastructure, I
> would prefer to focus on development and less hosting.  Helping to host
> any other solution is good too, for example, Jitsi Meet provides a
> Docker image[5] now.
> 
> - embed[6] the JSCommunicator into any other web application, CMS plugin
> or framework.  The DruCall[7] and WPCall[8] for Wordpress examples are
> interesting.  You can simply clone[9] FedRTC, remove the Fedora logo and
> build your own site.  It also includes a very simple example of FAS SSO
> integration.
> 
> - try other solutions, for example, Jami[10] is a more decentralized
> peer-to-peer solution
> 
> - help package any other solution that isn't in Fedora yet and share
> your work on the FreeRTC[1] list
> 
> - share your experiences through your blogs, give feedback to developers
> or even send pull requests.
> 
> While my personal focus is SIP, I'd also like to highlight the role
> played by the XMPP community.  Dave Cridland circulated a message[11]
> today about the use of XMPP in the UK health service: "If the growth
> curve holds, this week will see more messages than the system had last
> year."
> 
> 
> 
> Background - Short term:
> A lot more countries are going into lock-downs this week.  Italy has
> told businesses to either work from home or shut down.  Wuhan has been
> in lockdown for about 8 weeks now and it looks like another month at least.
> 
> Background - Long term:
> Experts are saying that it could be a game of whack-a-mole, chasing
> Coronavirus around the globe for 12 months or more.  After the 3-4
> months of lockdowns, countries will not want regressions and they may
> continue with severe border restrictions and limits on aviation.  It
> might be a full 12 months before any large international events can take
> place.
> 
> 
> 0. https://lists.freertc.org/pipermail/discuss/2020-January/000036.html
> 1. https://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1815936
> 3.
> https://github.com/opentelecoms-org/jscommunicator/tree/master/internatio...
> 4.
>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
> 5. https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
> 6.
> https://github.com/opentelecoms-org/jscommunicator/blob/master/INTEGRATIO...
> 7. http://drucall.org/
> 8. https://github.com/mesutcang/wpcall
> 9. https://github.com/opentelecoms-org/fedrtc-org
> 10. https://jami.net/
> 11. https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/members/2020-March/009141.html
>

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 23:04 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>   Helping to host
>  any other solution is good too, for example, Jitsi Meet provides a
>  Docker image[5] now. 
I will try packaging all Jitsi Meet suite [1] 

[1] 
https://community.jitsi.org/t/where-i-find-deb-src-or-src-rpm-of-the-pack...

-- 
Sérgio M. B.

[Daniel Pocock]

On 28/03/2020 16:13, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>  On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 23:04 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >  Helping to host
> > any other solution is good too, for example, Jitsi Meet provides a
> > Docker image[5] now.
>  
>  I will try packaging all Jitsi Meet suite [1]  

Great

If you would like to run it on the fedrtc.org domain please feel free to
ask.  E.g. meet.fedrtc.org ?

If it needs credentials for anything then it could share my FAS SSO
script[2]

>  
>  [1] 
>  https://community.jitsi.org/t/where-i-find-deb-src-or-src-rpm-of-the-pack...
>   

2. https://github.com/opentelecoms-org/fedrtc-org/tree/master/accounts

[Dario Lesca]

Il giorno sab, 28/03/2020 alle 15.13 +0000, Sérgio Basto ha scritto:
>  I will try packaging all Jitsi Meet suite [1]  
Cool!, if you want a beta tester on Fedora, let me know.

Thanks


-- 
Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 31 Workstation)

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 18:09 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
>  Il giorno sab, 28/03/2020 alle 15.13 +0000, Sérgio Basto ha scritto:
>  > I will try packaging all Jitsi Meet suite [1]  
Me too, I've been watching that suite of tools and would love to be a
little involved as potentially a co-maintainer but definitely a
tester...

[Christopher Engelhard]

On 30.03.20 19:35, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>  On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 18:09 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> > Il giorno sab, 28/03/2020 alle 15.13 +0000, Sérgio Basto ha scritto:
> >> I will try packaging all Jitsi Meet suite [1] 
>  
>  Me too, I've been watching that suite of tools and would love to be a
>  little involved as potentially a co-maintainer but definitely a
>  tester... 
Same here. I don't have much experience with Java, but if I can help
with packaging in any way, let me know.

Christopher

[Neal Becker]

Sérgio Basto wrote:

>  On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 23:04 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >  Helping to host
> > any other solution is good too, for example, Jitsi Meet provides a
> > Docker image[5] now.
>  
>  I will try packaging all Jitsi Meet suite [1]
>  
>  [1]
>  https://community.jitsi.org/t/where-i-find-deb-src-or-src-rpm-of-the-pack...
>   
Before jumping into jitsi, I think you should see what I got when I tried it 
using the web app.

Why does it want access to my youtube??

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 14:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>  Sérgio Basto wrote:
>  
>  Before jumping into jitsi, I think you should see what I got when I
>  tried it 
>  using the web app.
>  
>  Why does it want access to my youtube?? 
I've used Jitsi without an account at all for over a year (at least the
one at meet.jit.si - so my guess is that is a configuration option?