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Tue 30 Jun 2020 2:28PM

Next generation 'room' services and stewarding of digital tools infrastructure

M mike_hales Public Seen by 142

An exchange around Big Blue Button in OpenCoop triggered this thread. Reposted here, as a starter. The questions are around . .

  • persistent shared video-mediated workspace ('rooms') as an element of digital infrastructure which has now become basic? but is (politically and functionally) flaky and incomplete?

  • affordances that collaborator-organiser-coproducers need to be provided with in this kind of workspace (=use cases? social intentions? genres and cultural modes of collaboration?); and

  • how 'public' versions of such infrastructure can be effectively stewarded, as commons, as ecosystems. Including stewarding the design, production and mobilisation of large bodies of FLOSS code that will be needed, to give the necessary affordances to an infrastructure of 'useful rooms' for ongoing collaboration within distributed practices of commons development?

LF

Lynn Foster Mon 20 Jul 2020 11:40AM

Nothing to add, but wanted to say thanks for looking into this set of tools. And I learned a new term, "cargo culting"! :)

DS

Danyl Strype Wed 22 Jul 2020 10:18AM

There are some tools here that may be useful when using BBB for online conferences, including BBB-Render:

"Scripts to convert a BigBlueButton recording into a single video file" https://github.com/plugorgau

I've found a few ad hoc collections like this, associated with groups that put on this or that open source event. There seems to be a need for a meta-project to pull all these bits together into a comprehensive online conferencing suite. That's what I was envisioning with Core-Us (chorus, get it?). See: https://git.feneas.org/disintermedia/public-wiki/-/wikis/Core-Us

DS

Danyl Strype Thu 6 Aug 2020 12:55AM

Meething is an experimental video conferencing system being developed by ERA, with sponsorship from Mozilla. Could be worth checking out whether/ how they plan to design for,the user needs we've been discussing here. Their code forge is here:

https://github.com/meething/meething

@mike_hales

DS

Danyl Strype Fri 14 Aug 2020 6:21AM

FYI the code for the Greenlight front-end can be found on GH, and the issues board there is a good place to report bugs and make feature suggestions. @mike_hales @Lynn Foster @Simon Grant @Oli SB

JH

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