BigBlueButton Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• IMPORTANT: It looks like the schools are turning into a warzone and too dangerous for children. People are hoping to shift education online (avoiding the regime platforms). We are looking for something like a persian Khan Academy. If you know any platforms or ideas about this please comment here.

  Https://bigbluebutton.org/ is a free and open source classroom software. I would stick to indiependent and free software in your situation. - Source: Reddit / 24 days ago

• Web based Video/audio chat solution with high quality single presenter video?

  I haven't used it to stream movies, but I use BigBlueButton fairly regularly for video/voice calls. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• Germany Forces a Microsoft 365 Ban Due to Privacy Concerns

  Big Blue Button (https://bigbluebutton.org) is one. We actually used it at work for meetings but it seems they have since pivoted to be for more virtual classroom. I agree though, even that would need decent IT talent to setup and maintain. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Does anyone know a self-hosted alternative to Teams?

  You could try these self-hosted solutions: TrueConf, Jitsi or BigBlueButton. The choice generally depends on your needs and company budget. - Source: Reddit / 10 months ago

• Mac users report Zoom using their microphone outside calls

  BigBlueButton is nice and is open source but they seem to have pivoted towards being a learning tool rather than a business tool. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition (working Wayland support coming soon?)

  BigBlueButton is an alternative to Zoom for education, give your university an email at the least. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• SOS! Tools for Private Violin Lessons with Wordpress Site

  Https://bigbluebutton.org Try something like this. i’m sure there are tons of free open source web apps out there that will fit your needs. I looked up “virtual classroom manager free open source” on google, this was one of the first results. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Google meet replacement

  Big blue button is an open source self hosted online meeting solution. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• I made a Linux version for the Adobe Connect meeting app

  If they want a video conferencing solution that they can self host, they should consider BigBlueButton. It is open source and explicitly designed for teaching. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• How well prepared was your organization for WFH during covid?

  I deployed BigBlueButton since we now needed a video conferencing software and it still serves us well every day :). - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• What's one thing we did before the pandemic that even if the world went back to normal you wouldn't do again?

  I'm 43, and I hang out in my videoconference server I set up (https://bigbluebutton.org/ FTW) so people can drop by and discuss things, complete with shared whiteboard and screen sharing. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• [FREE][EU-UK] 2 x no-name 2U 12-bay servers - dual Westmere-EP E5645/E5620 CPUs, 96/64GB ECC RAM, IT-mode LSI SAS HBA, IPMI 2

  I am a junior college student, me and my friends struggle collaborating together (writing code, trying to start something, hosting projects for all the other students/400) at Applied IT (UCLL Belgium)https://ucll.be. We could really use a storage server for projects like: events, online workshops, coding challenges, https://bigbluebutton.org and more. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Video conference with screen sharing

  You could try self-hosted solutions: TrueConf, Jitsi or BigBlueButton. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Web whiteboard that doesn't require participants to log in.

  BigBlueButton. Opensource, can be self hosted, and has whiteboard, too. (Not infinite per se, but infinite whiteboard pages you can create). - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

• Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion

  Besides Matrix there is also Mattermost which can be used with BigBlueButton integration to have quite similar possibilities in screen sharing and voice chat to Discord. Otherwise there is also Jitsi for meetings in small rooms. - Source: Reddit / about 2 years ago

• Premium mode

  These guys have a good platform that has a presentation area: https://bigbluebutton.org/ But lacking OBS ninja backstage/director view. If both can merge, it would be crazy :D. - Source: Reddit / about 2 years ago