BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is a real-time collaboration tool. (Audio/Video/Screensharing/Chat/Whiteboard). More info at doc:BigBlueButton

TikiFestBigBlueButton will be held summer 2010, to improve integration in Tiki6.

Source of first commit: http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki?view=rev&revision=26699

Reference: http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/Integration http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/API

Who

• Louis-Philippe Huberdeau
• Pascal St-Jean CitadelRock
• Nelson Ko CitadelRock
• Marc Laporte
• Daniel Gauthier
• You?

Wishlist

Integration

• One click login from Tiki
  • If logged from Tiki, nick should be the same
  • It should be possible to have unauthenticated users
    • These users would pick their nick, but it should be prefixed by something so we know that we don't really know who they are. (u: johnsmith, suechang vs web_sam or web_john)
    • So we don't force people to login to Tiki
• One click start chat with this group
• Use Tiki groups and permissions (ex.: closed session for a Classroom) (initial integration could have just one room though)
  • tiki_p_create_meeting (need an interface to create meetings with the various options offered by BBB) Interface is done
    • Invite all users from group X
  • tiki_p_join_meeting
  • tiki_p_join_meeting_as_moderator
• Integrate with Calendar to schedule meetings
• Save session recording to Tiki File Gallery or to Kaltura for editing
• Save chat log to a wiki page
• Integrate with Tiki Payment to have paid Webinars or paid one on one Support
  • Like Skype Prime
• An appreciation poll after a webinar or Remote support session.
• A module which shows the available rooms, and who is online done in the plugin

Feature requests & bug reports

High

• If the connection fails, BBB should restart exactly to where it was (window positioning, etc.)

Regular

• Should be possible to have webcams windows opened by default
• bug/feature request: two users can have some username. Assuming this is a bug, BBB could add a suffix to second one (like IRC)
• Feature request: colors in chat should be auto-assigned
• Bug: clicking on camera doesn't always open them
• Transition helper for Community chat
  • IRC & Skype are successful because the desktop client typically logs you in when you boot your computer. Thus, it's easier to get a critical mass of users than with a web-only interface. Some ideas to address this
    • Jabber client or IRC bridge (When someone joins/acts in BBB, we get a notification in IRC)
• Whiteboard
• Sync text edit (and wiki page edits could be done simultaneously)
  • Alternative free software app: Etherpad for real time doc. writing (from Google, with Apache 2.0 License)
• Hosted options, where Tiki admins could just pay and have someone else host it.
  • On demand instances, payable by the hour (even better!)

Dogfood

• On tikiwiki.org, a 1-click access to live.tikiwiki.org
  • Registered users use tikiwiki.org nick as login or even with InterTiki
  • Others are web_xyz
• From the Connect admin panel, a link to live.tikiwiki.org, using by default the web_domainname.com as a nick

Links

Hubspot A Fortune 500 Marketing Web Cast application, similar to BBB.

Related

• Kaltura
• Realtime
• BigBlueButton Dogfood

• BBB
• Big Blue Button