BigBlueButton

Back in 2010 during my last test `BigBlueButton`:http://bigbluebutton.org/ was looking the most promising but again our most wanted feature (flawless screen sharing on linux) wasn't fully functional as it lacked the ability to select a screen region. Now that we released the new version of `Bid Right`:http://www.bid-right.com/news/bid-right-083-released people are asking us about demos and presentation, and so I had another look at all these solutions. I was pleasantly surprise to see that BigBlueButton has now evolved in a very complete and usable solution.

For those who don't know, BigBlueButton is a fantastic software for video/audio-conferencing complete with screen/document sharing and whiteboard. It is unfortunately using Flash, and Java for the screen sharing, but with HTML5 implementation on customers/prospects browsers being still emerging it was a safer bet to use Flash although a buggy one. Hopefully we will see some more interesting standard solution using `webRTC`:http://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/ and HTML5 sockets in a near future.

So after years of watching these solutions' evolution I finally build a BigBlueButton server for our internal needs and found that the instructions on the website were overly complicated, so I jumped on the opportunity to write another How-To see How to Install BigBlueButton on a Debian Squeeze in our wiki.

Again if you want to migrate away from proprietary solution like Cisco's WebEx, and try BigBlueButton do not hesitate to `contact us`:http://www.personalized-software.ie/contactus.

Enjoy