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<p>Good update on this ... I attended the Faculty Senate meeting
today and turns out that BigBlueButton was quietly turned on in
Canvas at our site about 4 years ago but information was slow in
getting out! Problem solved ... <br>
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<p>JMH<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/20 9:48 AM, Jonathan Haack
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<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>Thanks for all the talk about Jitsi - yes, it is very easy
and secure to use and great free software.</div>
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<div>However, I am also a teacher - and group work, or breakout
rooms in conferencing systems is <u><b>essential</b></u> to
many of the lessons I teach online.</div>
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<div>For that reason, I reached out to Dave Lane, President of
NZ Open Source Society, and also head sys admin at OERu.org.</div>
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<div>He suggested I run BigBlueButton, and allowed me to test
his self-hosted instance last night: <a
href="https://bbb.nzoss.nz/b" moz-do-not-send="true">https://bbb.nzoss.nz/b</a></div>
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<div>BigBlueButton's community server cannot handle classes over
an hour due to increased load, so my question to everyone here
is ... is there interest in the NM GLUG community for setting
up a community BigBlueButton instance?</div>
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<div>The server requirements are actually fairly beefy: <a
href="https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html#minimum-server-requirements"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html#minimum-server-requirements</a></div>
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<div>Of course, this project is FLOSS or I would not share it
(LGPL licensed): <a
href="https://bigbluebutton.org/open-source-license/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://bigbluebutton.org/open-source-license/</a></div>
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<div>Anyway, if someone can provide the host and bandwidth and
give me shell/key access, I can do all the set up DNS, etc.,
and server configuration, mail relay for accounts for us,
etc. I just don't have enough space on my home server or
another spare host - and putitng this in a VPS would be $$$$$$
as fuck.</div>
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<div>Other ideas also welcome as a solution to this ... <br>
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<div>Thanks all,</div>
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<div>Jonathan Haack<br>
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