When the pandemic lock downs started, my local Linux User Group started looking at video conferencing tools we could use to continue presenting talks and other events to members. We ended up adopting BigBlueButton: as well as being Open Source, it's focus on education made it well suited for presenting talks. It has the concept of a presenter role, and built in support for slides (it sends them to viewers as images, rather than another video stream). It can also record sessions for later viewing.

As an evening project, I've been working on a small library that integrates the GLib main loop with Python's asyncio. I think I've gotten to the point where it might be useful to other people, so have pushed it up here:

https://github.com/jhenstridge/asyncio-glib

This isn't the only attempt to integrate the two event loops, but the other I found (Gbulb) is unmaintained and seems to reimplement a fair bit of the asyncio (e.g. it has its own transport classes). So I thought I'd see if I could write something smaller and more maintainable, reusing as much code from the standard library as possible.

One of the options available when configuring the my ThinkPad was an Infrared camera. The main selling point being "Windows Hello" facial recognition based login. While I wasn't planning on keeping Windows on the system, I was curious to see what I could do with it under Linux. Hopefully this is of use to anyone else trying to get it to work.

The camera is manufactured by Chicony Electronics (probably a CKFGE03 or similar), and shows up as two USB devices: