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      <title>Our new OpenTalk test-instance</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[OpenTalk Screenshot&#xA;&#xA;div class=center&#xA;a href=&#34;https://talk.tchncs.de&#34; target=blank rel=nofollow  class=btnTry OpenTalk/a – a href=&#34;https://opentalk.eu/produkt&#34; target=blank rel=nofollow Explore features/a – a href=&#34;https://social.tchncs.de/@milan/110012195431742828&#34; target=blank rel=nofollowDiscuss on Mastodon/a&#xA;/div&#xA;&#xA;Known issues&#xA;Speedtest not yet implemented&#xA;Metrics not yet implemented (affects you in the sense of: to see whether it&#39;s annoying to you if i restart the service)&#xA;Speedtest not supporting latency (not a direct OpenTalk issue, the speedtest-software does not support it yet)&#xA;Protocol PDF export only works from within the pad&#xA;Recordings not yet opensourced, the menuentry will not work&#xA;no proper Email support yet&#xA;phone calls feature not addressed yet, but planned&#xA;&#xA;Login / signup&#xA;&#xA;OpenTalks authentication service (Keycloak) is connected to our authentication server (Zitadel). Until recently, you had to make sure to use the button below the login form, now it is hidden with CSS. Please remember that your accountname ends with @tchncs.de.&#xA; &#xA;About this instance&#xA;Due to the complexity of OpenTalk, this instance derivates off of their official &#34;lite&#34; Docker example. It adds a number of services, trying to reach an as complete as possible experience. As of the time of writing, this is still in progress and a few more restarts are to be expected in order to apply new settings and stuff.&#xA;&#xA;  Maintenance window:&#xA;  because it doesn&#39;t make sense to restart all the time while you are trying to give it a fair test, I will try to apply new settings only between 5-9pm CET. (see below)&#xA;&#xA;div class=center&#xA;a href=&#34;https://talk.tchncs.de&#34; target=blank rel=nofollow  class=btnTry OpenTalk/a – a href=&#34;https://opentalk.eu/produkt&#34; target=blank rel=nofollow Explore features/a – a href=&#34;https://social.tchncs.de/@milan/110012195431742828&#34; target=_blank rel=nofollowDiscuss on Mastodon/a&#xA;/div&#xA;&#xA;This instance is categorized as &#34;playground mode&#34;. Its purpose is to evaluate whether it is feasable to keep it long-term. This also means that you still are more than welcome to use and test it, because software that is not used by anybody can&#39;t be tested/evaluated properly.&#xA;&#xA;  Playground mode window:&#xA;  This service will be evaluated until mid of June 2023&#xA;&#xA;About OpenTalk&#xA;&#xA;tba (irrational happy &#34;Rust&#34; noises)&#xA;&#xA;#tchncs #opentalk #playground&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;How to contact me:  &#xD;&#xA;Follow me on Mastodon / More options on tchncs.de]]&gt;</description>
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<a href="https://talk.tchncs.de" target="_blank" class="btn" rel="nofollow noopener">Try OpenTalk</a> – <a href="https://opentalk.eu/produkt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Explore features</a> – <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@milan/110012195431742828" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Discuss on Mastodon</a>
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<h2 id="known-issues">Known issues</h2>
<ul><li><del>Speedtest not yet implemented</del></li>
<li><del>Metrics not yet implemented (affects you in the sense of: to see whether it&#39;s annoying to you if i restart the service)</del></li>
<li>Speedtest not supporting latency (not a direct OpenTalk issue, the speedtest-software does not support it yet)</li>
<li><del>Protocol PDF export only works from within the pad</del></li>
<li>Recordings not yet opensourced, the menuentry will not work</li>
<li>no proper Email support yet</li>
<li>phone calls feature not addressed yet, but planned</li></ul>

<h2 id="login-signup">Login / signup</h2>

<p>OpenTalks authentication service (Keycloak) is connected to <a href="https://tchncs.de/account" rel="nofollow">our authentication server</a> (Zitadel). Until recently, you had to make sure to use the button below the login form, now it is hidden with CSS. Please remember that your accountname ends with <code>@tchncs.de</code>.</p>

<h2 id="about-this-instance">About this instance</h2>

<p>Due to the complexity of <a href="https://opentalk.eu" rel="nofollow">OpenTalk</a>, this instance derivates off of <a href="https://gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk/ot-setup" rel="nofollow">their official “lite” Docker example</a>. It adds a number of services, trying to reach an as complete as possible experience. As of the time of writing, this is still in progress and a few more restarts are to be expected in order to apply new settings and stuff.</p>

<blockquote><p><strong>Maintenance window:</strong>
because it doesn&#39;t make sense to restart all the time while you are trying to give it a fair test, I will try to apply new settings only between <strong>5-9pm CET</strong>. (see below)</p></blockquote>

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<a href="https://talk.tchncs.de" target="_blank" class="btn" rel="nofollow noopener">Try OpenTalk</a> – <a href="https://opentalk.eu/produkt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Explore features</a> – <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@milan/110012195431742828" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Discuss on Mastodon</a>
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<p>This instance is categorized as <a href="https://tchncs.de/#playground" rel="nofollow">“playground mode”</a>. Its purpose is to evaluate whether it is feasable to keep it long-term. This also means that you still are more than welcome to use and test it, because software that is not used by anybody can&#39;t be tested/evaluated properly.</p>

<blockquote><p><strong>Playground mode window:</strong>
This service will be evaluated until <strong>mid of June 2023</strong></p></blockquote>

<h2 id="about-opentalk">About OpenTalk</h2>

<p>tba (irrational happy “Rust” noises)</p>

<p><a href="/tchncs/tag:tchncs" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">tchncs</span></a> <a href="/tchncs/tag:opentalk" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">opentalk</span></a> <a href="/tchncs/tag:playground" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">playground</span></a></p>

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<p><strong>How to contact me:</strong><br>
<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@milan" rel="nofollow"><em>Follow me on Mastodon</em></a> / <a href="https://tchncs.de/contact" rel="nofollow"><em>More options on tchncs.de</em></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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