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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Sean DuBois <sean@siobud.com>
Cc: galene@lists.galene.org, Frank Carmickle <frank@carmickle.com>
Subject: [Galene] Re: WebRTC unConference this tuesday, would love more speakers
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 13:24:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw6miNCym0nu4Nr48AzfxS3quay4=QTtsHEqkz90NOJALQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YKLHQbBgnIUn32tW@SeanLaptop.sioBuD.com>

Could we do a videoconference to discuss requirements? I'm busy til
6pm, available after.

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:43 PM Sean DuBois <sean@siobud.com> wrote:
>
> That would be amazing!
>
> Right now I just have one VPS I rented from Digital Ocean. If we could
> get multiple servers with galene + TLS that would make this way more
> likely to be a success.
>
> I also made some minor modifications and generated 500 static groups
> ahead of time. https://gist.github.com/Sean-Der/0e64e77d03c426dd08b4913b3323ddb0
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:29:58AM -0700, Dave Taht wrote:
> > I am deeply concerned that given the number of participants (300??) in
> > this conference tomorrow that the back end servers for
> > it will overload, or we'll hit some bugs. I can spin up one or more
> > hefty boxes in my cloud for it, even dedicated hw, and rather
> > than give a talk, attempt to monitor and manage various system statistics.
> >
> > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 6:11 AM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I see that my proposed talk is "unscheduled". I take it that means it
> > > didn't fit and needs to be scheduled for another event?
> > >
> > > I have time today to give it if desired.
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 10:42 AM Sean DuBois <sean@siobud.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dave,
> > > >
> > > > That sounds like a really great talk! I haven't thought of these
> > > > problems before.
> > > >
> > > > If you are interested I would love to help build a prototype of the
> > > > ideas you have. If we can build something that others find compelling I
> > > > bet we could find contributors if it works. There are some good existing
> > > > Speech-to-Text Open Source projects, we just need to solve the FFI
> > > > maybe?
> > > >
> > > > The conference will run May 18th 2021, 5-8 PM CEST / 8-11 AM PST the
> > > > home page is a bit better https://unconf.wonder.me
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 08:00:14AM -0700, Dave Taht wrote:
> > > > > I proposed a session with roughly this text. I am cc-ing a friend even more
> > > > > blind than I am.
> > > > >
> > > > > ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Very cool. I note that my principal use for videoconferencing is because I
> > > > > am blind in one eye and deaf in one ear. Until the rise of webrtc I relied
> > > > > on skype and its emacs interface to cope with many interactions and
> > > > > I often find it difficult to find various icons and interfaces in all the webrtc
> > > > > clients and web browsers I've been asked to cope with.
> > > > >
> > > > > Discovering that the now common, and mandatory TFA texting method
> > > > > didn't work with skype, recently, was no fun. skype rings all my devices,
> > > > > nothing else does.
> > > > >
> > > > > And if I lose the other eye or other ear, I will have really insurmountable
> > > > > problems. Knowing this, I've worked really hard to make videoconferencing work
> > > > > well, starting with my work in the rmcat working group years ago,
> > > > > and continuing with some excitement into galene now, where, finally
> > > > > having access into a SFU, I can make a difference.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's oft kind of difficult for me to talk publicly about my problems,
> > > > > and ask others to help solve them...  but I would  really like webrtc
> > > > > clients to have working speech to text (and text to speech), in
> > > > > particular.  3d positional audio would be nice, also, using
> > > > > ambisonics.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also a debate feature where each participant would be limited by the
> > > > > software to a 2 minute speaking time with a visual clock, would be
> > > > > nice. I've been harangued a bit too often of late, and merely raising
> > > > > my hand to invoke robert's rules of order not work well enough.
> > > > >
> > > > > I reworked what I just wrote into a generic "Improving webrtc for people with
> > > > > disabilities" talk... It's not clear what timezone the conference is in.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 7:30 AM Sean DuBois <sean@siobud.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hey List,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The details are at https://unconf.wonder.me/event it can be as short/long as you want it!
> > > > > > I really would love first time speakers. Lots of interesting things happening in the space,
> > > > > > we need new voices. Just share your perspective on WebRTC.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Even if you have a germ of an idea share it and we can iterate.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > * Robotics
> > > > > > * Game streaming
> > > > > > * Code bases/specific SFUs
> > > > > > * Learning WebRTC and what you found challenging
> > > > > > * Share your interesting project
> > > > > > * Talk about what WebRTC needs. How can we improve it?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This conference also will be using Galene! I wrote a tool that generates
> > > > > > rooms from a web form https://github.com/sean-der/unrtc-schedule-maker
> > > > > > will write a README so others can use soon as well.
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Latest Podcast:
> > > > > https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6791014284936785920/
> > > > >
> > > > > Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Galene mailing list -- galene@lists.galene.org
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Latest Podcast:
> > > https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6791014284936785920/
> > >
> > > Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Latest Podcast:
> > https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6791014284936785920/
> >
> > Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC
> > _______________________________________________
> > Galene mailing list -- galene@lists.galene.org
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-- 
Latest Podcast:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6791014284936785920/

Dave Täht CTO, TekLibre, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-17 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-16 14:30 [Galene] " Sean DuBois
2021-05-16 15:00 ` [Galene] " Dave Taht
2021-05-16 17:42   ` Sean DuBois
2021-05-17 13:11     ` Dave Taht
2021-05-17 18:29       ` Dave Taht
2021-05-17 19:42         ` Sean DuBois
2021-05-17 20:24           ` Dave Taht [this message]
2021-05-17 20:26             ` Sean DuBois
2021-05-17 20:29               ` Dave Taht
2021-05-17 18:50       ` Gabriel Kerneis
2021-05-17 20:29     ` Gabriel Kerneis

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