Set up peertube to store videos such as FOSS4G ones

[robe]

It was noted on OSGeo SAC IRC that peertube is commonly used for sharing videos. So might be a good option to store all FOSS4G videos and project trainings.

Docs: ​https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install-any-os?id=installation

Services such as

​https://video.blender.org and

fsf europe ​https://media.fsfe.org/about/instance

use it

In reviewing it, key features I like about it.

1) Runs on PostgreSQL for backend 2) Supports LDAP for authentication 3) Has a peer to peer setup (have to review this) so you can federate with other instances to share bandwidth. It's unclear to me though how easily it is for you to choose. E.g. we'd probably want to federate with other OS projects, but not necessarily anybody. We might also want to set up instances on cloud to better distribute our bandwidth based.

rduivenvoorde, also noted we have a Video Committee -

​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Video_Committee

that should be involved in this decision.

[rduivenvoorde]

About LDAP: according to ​https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-managing-users?id=external-auths-support There is an ldap 'plugin': ​https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/official-plugins/-/tree/master/peertube-plugin-auth-ldap and an OpenId one. No idea if/how those work.

And according to: ​https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install-docker you should be able to set it up in an container (and an external postgres db), not sure what is preferred by SAC.

Note that TIB AV-Portal actually already has some peertube like list of FOSS4G video's, eg: ​https://av.tib.eu/series/1233/foss4g+argentina+2021 (just wanted to make sure this was known as a non-proprietary source)

[robe]

@rduivenvoorde,

For things I don't understand with a lot of moving parts, I usually prefer docker. But I think upgrading postgres in docker is a huge pain, but luckily haven't had the need to do that yet (weblate using postgresql too, but the database is relatively tiny, so won't be a huge deal to upgrade postgresql when that time comes. But I'll see which is easiest.

e.g. for weblate.osgeo.org, repo.osgeo.org, and talks.osgeo.org, I went with docker, just cause there were way too many dependencies and moving parts for me to try to understand.

But great to know that docker is an option, so might be worth starting there.

Great add. Didn't realize TIB AV was using peertube. so we could federate with them.

[lucadelu]

Replying to rduivenvoorde:

Note that TIB AV-Portal actually already has some peertube like list of FOSS4G video's, eg: ​https://av.tib.eu/series/1233/foss4g+argentina+2021 (just wanted to make sure this was known as a non-proprietary source)

Since we already upload all the FOSS4G videos in TIB AV-Portal I think in this moment is more needed a solution to host photos since we have none (#2406)

[robe]

What should be the domain for this videos.osgeo.org comes to mind.

[robe]

I have this set up now as ​https://video.osgeo.org Anyone with an OSGeo LDAP account can login and upload videos.

Still some kinks to work out like having certain groups of ldap user have admin rights configuring livestream and logging ips correctly.

Also have to figure out why videos I marked public are not showing.

[robe]

This is done enough. Just needs people using it.