BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system

  • We use this product on our company of ~150 during the COVID work-at-home thingy.

    It's quite great ! It supports audio and video and is quite reactive for us.

  • How does this compare to something like 'Jitsi Meet'?

  • Best open-source, self-hosted solution to this problem. There is a mattermost plugin.

    Very easy install, requires a 10 - 15$ vps instance.

    Would like to see if anyone uses this on a large scale

  • This seems interesting, but the fact that the officially supported distro is still Ubuntu 16.04 is alarming. There is no good excuse for actively developed software to require an outdated operating system.

    I get that it's a LTS platform, but so is 18.04. 16.04 only has ~1 year of support left, so deploying infrastructure on it now is idiotic.

    At this point they should at least be recommending 18.04 and should be testing on betas of 20.04 while considering compatibility issues to be high priority.

  • Its been awhile since I used BBB, but I found issues with it when there were over ~20 participants. Anyone know how well BBB scales these days?

  • Just tried their demo -- looks full-featured and solid overall! Setup documentation seems pretty detailed.

  • Did anyone find a license file? The source code doesn't even have a copyright header.