BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning

[jdaviescoates]

@privsec I note it's one of the apps newly auto installable on Hetzner Cloud

[BrutalBirdie]

@jdaviescoates but its bad, really bad! - And Outdated! 2.3.0 < 2.3.10
I maintain the official Ansible role for BBB and stay in close contact to at least 25 Admins from universities in Germany.
They basically uniformly agreed that the Hetzner BBB app is unusable for any real work with BBB.

The Ansible Role:
https://github.com/ebbba-org/ansible-role-bigbluebutton

[privsec]

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[privsec]

@brutalbirdie said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:

@jdaviescoates but its bad, really bad!
I maintain the official Ansible role for BBB and stay in close contact to at least 25 Admins from universities in Germany.
They basically uniformly agreed that the Hetzner BBB app is unusable for for any real work with BBB.

The Ansible Role:
https://github.com/ebbba-org/ansible-role-bigbluebutton

Darn it. Was really hoping for a major win.

[BrutalBirdie]

@privsec use the ansible role and you have a major win.

I currently maintain multiple BBB clusters, Load-Balancers and Turn servers all via ansible and my work time for that is pretty much zero thanks to ansible.

[privsec]

@brutalbirdie Thanks for the fast reply, can I DM you with some questions?

[BrutalBirdie]

@privsec sure!

[micmc]

@brutalbirdie said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:

@jdaviescoates but its bad, really bad! - And Outdated! 2.3.0 < 2.3.10
I maintain the official Ansible role for BBB and stay in close contact to at least 25 Admins from universities in Germany.
They basically uniformly agreed that the Hetzner BBB app is unusable for for any real work with BBB.

The Ansible Role:
https://github.com/ebbba-org/ansible-role-bigbluebutton

Wow that's awesome thanks for sharing this Ansible playbook.

I'm in the process of starting to learn Ansible myself as it is a great time saving tool for managing servers.

And now I've a great "major win" to start with. Pretty cool!

You think you can share some more?

Cheers!
Andy

[doodlemania2]

@brutalbirdie Could yall include me too? I'm offering it (BBB) to a few folks as a small teeny service and it seems to be working okay/decent. About to add SIP support. Would love to learn more about how ya'll are approaching it.

[BrutalBirdie]

@doodlemania2 @micmc

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[jdaviescoates]

@brutalbirdie they may have updated, that's an old screenshot, but many thanks for the heads up anyway. Are you aware of meet.coop ? I'm a member and think it'd be great to have you involved too!

[LoudLemur]

There is a Big Blue Button integration in Nextcloud:

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bbb

[micmc]

@LoudLemur said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:

There is a Big Blue Button integration in Nextcloud:

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bbb

How is it performing, did you try it?

[doodlemania2]

I hope that's just a BBB interface, like Greenlight, otherwise, that's a LOT to cram into a Nextcloud. FWIW, my company offers BBB access for a small monthly fee. Available in US or EU

[luckow]

@doodlemania2 It's like Greenlight.

[LoudLemur]

@micmc I haven't tried Big Blue Button.

[doodlemania2]

@LoudLemur it's... robust

[LoudLemur]

Cloudron now has Greenlight in beta. It is a client for a Big Blue Button server. Is there any news on supporting Big Blue Button on Cloudron?

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight

[BrutalBirdie]

@LoudLemur
Having BigBlueButton as an App in Cloudron could be possible but I highly advise against it.
BigBlueButton Servers should be independent and require a lot of resources CPU/RAM/Network Bandwidth and Storage.

Having this on a Cloudron Server or Cloudron App is really not something I would recommend.

[avatar1024]

@BrutalBirdie but there is nothing that prevents to have a Cloudron server dedicated to BBB with only that app installed. Yet it would make it easy to install so I'd stay it's still be useful to have BBB packaged as a Cloudron app.