[LINK] Jitsi in the time of COVID-19

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2020-04-04 at 16:05 +1100, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> When you go to this link https://meet.jit.si/* it says start a new 
> meeting and I put in "chat"!

OK, now I see.

If you are using the public server, the field below "Start a new
meeting" is the name of your meeting. By default it generates random
sequences of four words that you can accept and use, but you can put in
your own desired meeting name instead if you want. If you put in the
name of an existing meeting, you will join it, rather than start a new
meeting.

When you entered the short common word "chat", you ended up chatting
with someone who had done the same thing with the same word...

Anyone who knows the name of any meeting can join it, which is why you
should choose hard-to-guess meeting names. Also, as soon as your
meeting opens and before you invite anyone to it, click "add password"
at lower right and put in a nice long password.

Then provide the name and password in your invitations to people.

On the public server, the password doesn't seem to survive everyone
leaving the meeting. It may be that once everyone leaves, the meeting
is reaped; if someone uses the same meeting name again, they don't
rejoin an existing meeting, they create a new meeting with a now-unused 
name.

On the public server, I think asking you to enter a password as well as a meeting name would be better. That way you would not land in other people's conferences unexpectedly unless they and you had managed to choose the same password as well as the same meeting name, and randoms would not be able to join your meeting. I don't know if demanding a password for new meetings is a server-side configurable item.

Regards, K.

PS: If you want to run up a server, this is how to do it:

    https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/getting-started-with-jitsi-
an-open-source-web-conferencing-solution/

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