LibrePlanet: Conference/2024/Streaming

This page is a WIP (Work in progress).

Our conference this year had three tracks (Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune). Jupiter and Saturn were held at WIT (Wentworth Institute of Technology) and Neptune was completely remote. Since they were so different, we will talk about them separately.

Jupiter and Saturn

Jupiter was streamed from Watson Hall at WIT. Saturn was streamed from Beatty 426 at WIT.

Neptune

We usually stream three tracks, but we did Neptune differently this year. Instead of watching a stream of a video conference, we allowed all participants to join the video conference. For video conferencing software, we switched to using a new platform to us called Galène. In previous years, we have used Jitsi Meet and Big Blue Button. We had heard from our friends that Galène used less resources and had a pleasant user experience so we decided to give it a good test with LibrePlanet. If you attended the LibrePlanet 2024 Neptune stream and have feedback, let us know by emailing sysadmin@fsf.org with comments.

We used the master branch at the time (commit e68ff8628749c1767f9744ce6a208da6a068a85a) as well as a LibreJS patch and some additional patches for logging usernames, identify, and chat.