[DRAFT] Spec for OpenMeetings Demo Server

2013-09-24 Thread seba.wag...@gmail.com
We have to agree on some kind of hardware spec for the a potential OpenMeetings Demo server. See the "Goals" section of that spec: We really don't want to make a commercial/end user offering with that demo server. The server should be a primary functional reference, that tells us how the applicat

Re: A server for Openmeetings

2013-09-24 Thread Tony Stevenson
On 24/09/13 11:31, seba.wag...@gmail.com wrote: We can try to keep the sign up open for everybody. However the problem with that is the pure amount of data those users will create. However there might be other reasons why LDAP is not suited, for instance that we don't want that anybody enters hi

Re: A server for Openmeetings

2013-09-24 Thread seba.wag...@gmail.com
We can try to keep the sign up open for everybody. However the problem with that is the pure amount of data those users will create. However there might be other reasons why LDAP is not suited, for instance that we don't want that anybody enters his Apache Password into our application. We can di

Re: A server for Openmeetings

2013-09-24 Thread seba.wag...@gmail.com
We can try to keep the sign up open for everybody. However the problem with that is the pure amount of data those users will create. However there might be other reasons why LDAP is not suited, for instance that we don't want that anybody enters his Apache Password into our application. We can di

Re: A server for Openmeetings

2013-09-24 Thread Maxim Solodovnik
Hello Sebastian, Why do we need this limitation: "Apache Ldap, so that only PMC can login"? On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:46 PM, seba.wag...@gmail.com < seba.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > this sounds all very reasonable. > > The bottleneck in our calculations are often bandwidth requireme

Re: A server for Openmeetings

2013-09-24 Thread seba.wag...@gmail.com
Hi Tony, this sounds all very reasonable. The bottleneck in our calculations are often bandwidth requirements. Memory/disk usage does pretty much scale linear with number of users, but bandwidth does more like exponential with the number of concurrent sessions. However I would not be too concern

Re: A server for Openmeetings

2013-09-24 Thread Tony Stevenson
Ultimately we will need a spec for the VM yes. However it is infra who will approve the spec in the first instance. The only real restrictions are: 1 - available resources on the physical host 2 - subject to fair use of the resources 3 - we oblige any local restrictions (providers etc) So in

Re: A server for Openmeetings

2013-09-24 Thread seba.wag...@gmail.com
I think they are waiting for a spec. However I am still a bit confused who needs to approve that spec? Do we need the ASF board to approve that spec? Thanks Sebastian 2013/9/24 Maxim Solodovnik > Dear Tony, > > Are the any updates on this topic? > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Tony Steve