[GoLUG] We need a new meeting venue

[Ron]

On 2026-10-19 12:15, Jon Wolfe wrote:

> It's fun to setup Nextcloud

Indeed, and rewarding. Once it is running, it became essential to 
everything I do: calendaring, contacts, document storage & sharing (and 
recently in-browser editing of a spreadsheet), photo backup from phone, ...


> and you can use the "Talk" App for video 
> conferencing with "max 2-3 participants".

That kinda depends.

My understanding is, it runs peer-to-peer encrypted WebRTC connections 
and that's where the overhead comes in.

Disable people from using their camera (usually a distraction at best) 
and more people can join.


> People can join as "guests" 
> with browser links, so this is nice.

It is.  Sadly, it's a bit finicky to set the query string to something 
non-random. Worthwhile for ongoing, repeating meetings, but ... tricky 
for "conversations" vs other types of Nextcloud shares.


> For any more participants, they 
> advise one to "Please set up the High-performance backend to ensure 
> calls with multiple participants work seamlessly.". I expect it is 
> similar with Jitsi and Big Blue Button.

Agreed, I suspect they're similar in that regard.


> I'm not a fan of Big Blue Button 
> - I find it clunky, but I know people who use it.

Also agreed. KWLUG uses a self-hosted BBB and it... works.


> If they have unlimited 
> sessions, it is worth considering.

I suspect it's similar with resources scaling non-linearly with users.



> My Nextcloud is running native with MariaDB. I use the collabora docker 
> image for web based LibreOffice (like Google Docs). But honestly, I 
> almost never use this feature. It took me a while to figure it out, but 
> I was new to docker at the time. If you want to run Nextcloud in docker, 
> you should opt for docker compose. It makes configuration much easier. 
> The nginx configuration for Nextcloud can also be fairly complicated. It 
> is probably worthwhile just using SSL/443/LetsEncrypt to start with 
> rather than migrating to it eventually the way I did.

Yeah, getting Apache / nginx, PHP, Maria / Postgres, Redis, coturn, and 
the Collabora / OnlyOffice working together is tricky.

Hence, "AIO". There it's just a few clicks and Nextcloud Office, 
Collabora, or Euro Office (?), the collaborative Whiteboard app, etc. 
are taken care of.


Cheers