[Battlemesh] WBMv13 and COVID-19

[Baptiste Jonglez]

Hi,

This sounds like something achievable with Big Blue Button, which is a
self-hosted solution for video-conferencing.  It was designed with
teaching in mind: you can show slides, record meetings, take collaborative
notes (Etherpad integration), and there are even "break-out" rooms for
relaxing between sessions.

Here is the website: https://bigbluebutton.org/

Documentation for installing: http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html

Design: http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/design.html

Administration interface: http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/greenlight/gl-overview.html

Overview video as a participant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYYnryIM0Uw

Overview video as a presenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2tG2SS4gXA

I tested it recently: it's a bit heavy-weight and messy on the server-side
(it needs 4-8 GB of RAM and a public IP address, and it's a bit fragile
once you start to hack into it), but the new HTML5/webRTC client works
really well.

They run a demo instance with the GreenLight frontend: https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/gl/

You can also use my instance (only for testing) if you want: https://easybbb.polyno.me/

On this instance I installed a very simple frontend called "bbb-easy-join" [1]
that makes it look like Jitsi Meet, you can create rooms and share the
link to participants.  But GreenLight looks nice for managing users, and
there are also many integrations [2] and even an integration with
Mattermost [3].

Baptiste

[1] https://github.com/stadtulm/bbb-easy-join
[2] https://bigbluebutton.org/integrations/
[3] https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/mattermost-plugin-bigbluebutton

On 15-03-20, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is maybe getting a bit off topic, but what I miss about those
> solutions is that they are focusing only on presentations part of
> conferences. That is OK, but great conferences have many more types of
> events which are very useful in my experiences: random encounters,
> hacking together, ad-hoc groups focusing on one thing, etc. How you make
> those virtual? This is what I am thinking about.
> 
> 
> Mitar
> 
> > I think it is possible to manage multiple Webinars with Zoom.
> > You can also manage the different events/talks with it.
> > Zoom was designed with this purpose in mind. We'd just need the business plan
> > with 10+ "rooms" which would cost us about 200€.
> > Discord lacks many features like built-in recording.
> > 
> > If you can build us a better (open-source) conference software
> > based on WebRTC that'd be great.
> > 
> > On 14.03.20 20:29, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> >>> On 14 Mar, 2020, at 9:14 pm, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, maybe the word "conference" here is overloaded here. What I think
> >>> about is an event, where you have 100s of participants, maybe multiple
> >>> tracks, rooms, side events, etc. So a tool to help organizing a virtual
> >>> conference like that. Tools I have seen (Google Hangouts, Zoom) are
> >>> generally made for a single virtual space, no?
> >>
> >> Discord.  Just Discord.
> >>
> >>  - Jonathan Morton
> >>
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