There's an effort going on in the openSUSE Heroes to get Jitsi upgraded, and @thunderbirdtr has volunteered to help with that. That will hopefully improve the experience.

I've noticed two problems:

• Videos of people who are not speaking frequently get stuck. I don't think it's a big deal, but it's pretty obviously broken and makes the experience feel low-quality.
• Jens has a very hard time joining the meetings. We don't know why and it works for everybody else, but Jens reports that it takes an extremely long time to join. This is not OK.

There's an effort going on in the openSUSE Heroes to get Jitsi upgraded, and @thunderbirdtr has volunteered to help with that. That will hopefully improve the experience.

The upstream Jitsi Meet now requires a user account to host meetings. I suspect that requirement may be coming soon with any update. In this case, we'd probably want to use the more general upstream instance https://meet.jit.si.

https://meet.gnome.org is another option, although this runs Big Blue Button and I've found that to much less reliable than Jitsi Meet. E.g. recently I was stuck in the lobby waiting for a meeting to start, but it had already started without me.

Google Meet is another option but this requires the host to individually approve everybody who joins the meeting from outside Red Hat, meaning Neal and Chris would be unable to host meetings. At first I thought this would be an unacceptable requirement for putting Working Group members on unequal footing, but it is at least a reliable platform....

What happens to me is that for +- 8 weeks I'm only able to reliable see video stream from Neal, but for other WG members it's really flaky.

There's an effort going on in the openSUSE Heroes to get Jitsi upgraded, and @thunderbirdtr has volunteered to help with that. That will hopefully improve the experience.

The upstream Jitsi Meet now requires a user account to host meetings. I suspect that requirement may be coming soon with any update. In this case, we'd probably want to use the more general upstream instance https://meet.jit.si.

https://meet.jit.si needs an account as well (was surprised by that 2 weeks ago) to host a meeting.

Currently, meet.opensuse.org is down, but there's an upgraded version of Jitsi on meet-test.opensuse.org that we can use this week. We can see if that's better.

Agreed: Workstation WG will continue to use meet.opensuse.org for now.