On 24 April 2012 14:56, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Noel O'Boyle <baoille...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a couple of people interested in trying out the open
>> source web conferencing system BigBlueButton (designed for distance
>> learning). This software, started in 2009, appears to work very well and
>> combines voice, video, slides, chat and desktop sharing. Given that the
>> commercial alternatives are out of reach for open source projects like Open
>> Babel etc., this system opens up the possibility of online conferences,
>> tutorials and meetings. The system allows recording, so that people who
>> miss the meeting or want to look at the tutorial afterwards can easily do
>> so.
>>
>> The only catch is that you need your own server (the hosting companies
>> are too expensive for occasional use). I've set up a server on EC2 and I
>> need 5 or so people (no more) as volunteers to test it out, stress test it
>> and give some feedback. Hopefully, some of you will be interested in using
>> it yourselves and may even have the resources to provide a permanent server
>> for Blue Obelisk projects (hint hint).
>>
>> So, get in touch on or off list and let me know. I note in advance that
>> the client requires Flash but is otherwise crossplatform, and a headset or
>> just a pair of ear phones will help avoid echo.
>>
>>
> Wonder if we could deploy this for the Skolnik symposium?? In august. Bob
> Belford has experience with BBB. Or maybe this is too ambitious.
>
>
I haven't really considered the possibilities of BBB for remote talks, and
it's certainly not aimed at this audience (pardon the pun). I think that
for one-to-one audio, Skype is definitely ahead here (lower latency I
believe). Beyond the ability to advance the slides remotely, I can't see
any other additional advantages of BBB. A separate question is whether it
would be useful to allow remote attendees. You'd have to test this out.
BTW, I'm happy to explain how to setup BBB on EC2 (probably via a
blogpost). It costs about 15p an hour while running (possibily twice that
once I go over the bandwidth cap), but you only need to run it during a
meeting.
>
>
>> - Noel
>>
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