VTIRC Stories

Videotelephony Meets IRC
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Tele IRC Videotelephony

DS Jitsi Apex
 Create a meeting at the root jitsi domain, joinable by anyone knowing the meet id.
The revised VTIRC story uses the KIWI web client which replaced the original qwebirc access to Bitlbee, accessible in the Help link. The service from the jitsi apex is just vanilla jitsi meet with some adjustments for anonymous use in this story and use with whatever you are already using for IRC. So that's user managed manual integration, end of that story except insofar as it is assisted by DCP agents so that users from the wild can refer to jitsi conf calls by name. A quota of service is available free but only to authenticated users, free social networked via Google or Apple suffices.

The main story is an elaborated KiwiIRC jitsi plugin. In the new deal, both qwebirc and Bitlbee are replaced by DCP controlled inspircd and this kiwi plugin which is meant to operate from domain space by its users, so all of them, in this story are AKPERSONs. Peripheral access to Tele is available anonymously as ordinary jitsi users with whatever identity the 3rd party jitsi they are coming from config sets or none if from the apex at the perimeter.

In the BOOTKEE irc view, Tele/jitsi is available on the channel bar via the phone icon.
The per channel subdomains
E.g. haskell.sameboat, prolog.sameboat, etc., support local per lang activity and in channel namespaces on the commons node.


KIWI servers run in a mcpcms shell provsioned and managed by DCP.

While DS IRC and native (jitsi) VT are modified, in the general case neither IRC servers nor 3rd party VT services are intended to be modified so this story presumes eventual integration of those services and is from the start intended to work with DCP managed IRC networks. The design intent is generic IRC first.

Ephemeral Popular Groups

Popular groups are supported by the common video abstraction, whose default, internal supported backend implementation is jitsi. This support is an intrinsic service in sameboat nodes and popular groups hosted on them. Persistence of ephemeral groups beyond the lifetime of the jitsi meet is at the discretion of the Tele subscriber or the OS. In addition to the D7 derivative, each sameboat node also supports by default MCP cells for current MediaWiki, WordPress, the common local directory system (clfe), and solanum customized for this use.

The design intent for Ephemeral PG is two fold: seamless video conf and support for popular groups and form a common driving use case with IRC for temporal context processing in the group domains and the Long Now.