[tor-bugs] #33700 [Internal Services/Services Admin Team]: audio- and video-conferencing considerations

[Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki]

#33700: audio- and video-conferencing considerations
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------
 Reporter:  anarcat                              |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  project                              |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Services Admin     |        Version:
  Team                                           |
 Severity:  Major                                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                                       |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------

Comment (by anarcat):

 Notes from the jitsi meeting this morning

 Budget request comes from a 3 year project in africa and latin america.
 It's part of the 4th phase, to support for partners online

 Tor has been doing training in about 11 countries, but has been trying to
 transition into partners on the ground, for them to do the training. Then
 the pandemic started and orgs are moving online for training. We reached
 out to partners to see how they're doing it. Physical meetings are not
 going to happen. We have a year to figure out what to do with the funder
 and partners. Two weeks ago gus talked with trainers in brazil, tried
 jitsi which works well but facing problems for trainings (cannot mute
 people, cannot share presentations). They tried BBB and it's definitely
 better than Jitsi for training as it's more like an online classroom.

 The requirements we discussed:

  * host partner organizations in a private area in our infrastructure
  * number of participants: 14 organisations with one training per month,
 max 4 per month, about 14-15 people per session, less than 20
  * make a new proposal for the next phase (starting in june) in two weeks
  * self-hosted seems like an important requirement as the idea is this
 provides a trusted platform

 Other alternatives are not completely eliminated: we should also provide
 estimates on jitsi and other platforms we (TPA) are considering. And if we
 strongly oppose hosting a platform, this should be said as well.

--
Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/33700#comment:34>
Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/>
The Tor Project: anonymity online