[lug] BigBlueButton (self hosting)

[David L. Willson]

> could we as a group set up a BBB server?

I hosted one for SFS for a while, back in the BBB 1.0 days. I'd be happy to help with the work.

It looks like Tummy and Rule4 donate hosting for BLUG. If they're fatigued, SFS could donate hosting for a month or three, but that would have to be a VM on a sub-domain, unless there's a way to host SFS and BLUG on the same physical machine. I don't remember it well enough to be sure.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Queen" <svqueen at gmail.com>
To: "BLUG" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2020 11:09:15 AM
Subject: Re: [lug] Jitsi, etc. (Michael Hirsch)

I might be out of my depth on this, but could we as a group set up a BBB server? Sort of like ham radio operators have repeaters. What would be the costs? How could we share the costs among the users? 

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:58 AM Mike Witt < [ mailto:msg2mw at gmail.com | msg2mw at gmail.com ] > wrote: 


On 05/24/2020 10:44:05 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: 
> On Sat, 23 May 2020 14:36:41 -0600 
> Mike Witt < [ mailto:msg2mw at gmail.com | msg2mw at gmail.com ] > wrote: 
> 
> > Your report encouraged me to try BBB again (my first attempt 
> everything 
> > just hung -- maybe it was a bad day). 
> > 
> > The quality appeared to be very good. It's the only thing I've tried 
> > (other than Zoom) where the video might be good enough for what I'm 
> > doing. 
> > 
> > But, when I just tried it: 
> > 
> > - No recordings 
> > - Time limit of 60 minutes 
> > - One one webcam enabled (for the "instructor") 
> > 
> > I'm assuming that these three items are only because I signed up for 
> > the default "free" account. But it isn't really obvious how I go 
> about 
> > getting a different kind of account, or how much that would cost. 
> 
> Don't confuse the software with a service that some company is running 
> using that software. BBB is free software and has none of the 
> limitations 
> listed above. But for somebody to offer a service on the net using 
> BBB 
> that was free for all comers would be an expensive proposition indeed. 
> You definitely need to host your own instance to get what you want, I 
> think. 
> 
> jon 

I do get that. But I was hoping that somebody is providing such a 
(hosting) service, for a fee. I don't have enough bandwidth to set up 
my own instance. 

-Mike 
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