[Discuss] Meet.jit.si limits meetings to 95 minutes

[grg-webvisible+blu at ai.mit.edu (grg)]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 12:51:09PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> We probably should host jitsi, but only for blu and natick FOSS meetings so
> we can determine if the bandwidth is ok.

my guess: a BLU meeting is ballpark 100GB network traffic (the great
majority of it egress).  how much would be ok?

a couple options possibly worth considering:
1) the FSF hosts a jitsi server; if anyone is an FSF "associate member" (or
   higher) they can create a jitsi room for the BLU which anyone can log into:
        https://www.fsf.org/associate/about-the-fsf-jitsi-meet-server
2) openSUSE hosts a jitsi server at https://meet.opensuse.org/ which they
   advertise as "openSUSE has a Jitsi Server that can be used by anyone".
   indeed it seems to be fully open and anyone can create a "BLU" meeting
   there which others can join (I did and it seems to work).
3) if we really want to self-host our own and don't have a good place to
   put it, microsoft gives nonprofits $2000 annual azure credits which
   could be used to run a jitsi server:
        https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/azure

--grg



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