Team 5 is running into some roadblocks…

In the last post, I mentioned that we started working on integrating Jitsi servers into our project by running it locally on Docker. Unfortunately, trying to get Jitsi to do what you want it to do has got to be one of the most unbearable tasks. Out of the box, it works like a charm — all of the things that you’d expect from a video conferencing platform, like sharing your screen or using the chat, work beautifully. The problems start arising when you try to customize it in any way — which is bad news for us since we’d likely need to change a lot. We’ll still try to get Jitsi working, but in the meantime we’re also looking into other SFU options like mediasoup.

Though we’ve had some technical issues, organizationally we’ve made some huge strides. At our Monday meeting (pictured above), we finally set up our rotational leadership structure, released our Kanban Board 2.0™, and solidified what our minimal viable product should look like. We’ll be holding our PDR presentation with Sriram and Jake (hopefully!) coming into town, but until then, see you next time!