[GoLUG] We need a new meeting venue

[Steve Litt]

Wayne said on Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:31:46 -0700

>It sounds like you are are hell bent on changing to a new venue, any
>of which have their own set of issues to deal with. Is there some
>particular reason why you just can't jump into a new room when the
>first one times out? Others are doing that without a single hick-up.
>Takes all of 15-seconds.
>
>https://meet.jit.si/golug    First 95-minutes
>https://meet.jit.si/golug2  Second 95-minutes
>https://meet.jit.si/golug3   Third 95-minutes
>
>You get the idea...

Something like your suggestion might be an interim solution. Other
LUGs are experimenting with it right now. There are some serious
challenges:

1. The room switch makes it a lot harder for the presenter. When you're
   presenting, you need 100% of your brain to give the presentation.
   The unscheduled intermission brakes the presenter's train of
   thought. It's unscheduled because the timing depends on who logged
   in first and when. When I present, I try to log in 1/2 hour early to
   get my camera, mike, and presentation set up. Sometimes somebody
   will have logged in before that.

2. The second and third meeting rooms must be random because otherwise
   somebody will pre-log in, cutting into the 90 minutes further.

3. Using a 3rd party "in the cloud" service was never my first choice
   because we must play by their ever-changing rules. When GoLUG first
   went virtual (before going virtual was cool), it was self-hosted
   Jitsi by Ubuntu Max. When Ubuntu Max went on to other things, I just
   switched to meet.jit.si/golug as a matter of convenience, intending
   to do something more local later.

So the remaining question is why I'm prioritizing self-hosting Nextcloud
over self-hosting Jitsi.

1. I've heard that Nextcloud is easier to get running.

2. meet.jit.si/golug occassionally dropped my connection to Jitsi
   without telling me, so I was presenting to nobody, and everyone else
   was wondering what the heck happened. It's possible this is a
   property of Jitsi rather than who is hosting it.

3. Ron is already running a Nextcloud instance, so he can give me
   advice.

HTH,

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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