BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing sys- In 2009 Richard Alam, Denis Zgonjanin, and Fred Dixon
tem developed primarily for distance education.
uploaded the BigBlueButton source code to Google Code
and formed Blindside Networks, a company pursuing the
traditional open source business model of providing paid
support and services to the BigBlueButton community.[9]

Features

In 2010 the core developers added a whiteboard for annotating the uploaded presentation. Jeremy Thomerson
added an application programming interface (API) which
the BigBlueButton community subsequently used to integrate with Sakai,[10] WordPress,[11] Moodle 1.9,[12][13]
Moodle 2.0,[13] Joomla,[14] Redmine,[15] Drupal,[16] Tiki
Wiki CMS Groupware,[17] Foswiki,[18] and LAMS.[19]
Google accepted BigBlueButton into the 2010 Google
Summer of Code program.[20] To encourage contributions from others, the core developers moved the
source code from Google Code to GitHub.[21] The
project indicated its intent to create an independent notfor-prot BigBlueButton Foundation to oversee future
development.[22]

BigBlueButton supports multiple audio and video sharing, presentations with extended whiteboard capabilities - such as a pointer, zooming and drawing - public
and private chat, desktop sharing, integrated VoIP using FreeSWITCH, and support for presentation of PDF
documents and Microsoft Oce documents. Moreover,
users may enter the conference in one of two roles: viewer
or moderator.

As a viewer, a user may join the voice conference, share

their webcam, raise their hand, and chat with others. As
a moderator, a user may mute/unmute others, eject any
user from the session, and make any user the current presenter. The presenter may upload slides and control the
In 2011 the core developers announced they were
presentation.[3]
adding record and playback capabilities to BigBlueButAlthough its components are open source, the BigBlue- ton 0.80.[23]
Button client depends on a browser plugin for the Adobe
In 2012 BigBlueButton 0.80 was released.[24]
Flash platform. The BigBlueButton server runs on
Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit and can be installed either from In 2013 BigBlueButton 0.81 was released. [25]
source code or from Ubuntu packages. BigBlueButton is In 2014 BigBlueButton 0.90-beta was released. [26]
also downloadable as a Virtual Machine (VM) that runs
[26]
within VMware Player on PC and Unix computers and In 2015 BigBlueButton 0.90 was released.
within VMWare Fusion on Macs.[4] The BigBlueButton The BigBlueButton name comes from the initial concept
server can also run within a cloud environment, such as that starting a web conference should be as simple as
Amazon EC2, by installing it on an Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit pressing a metaphorical big blue button.[43]
instance.

4 Third party integrations

Architecture

Chamilo (Learning Management System)

Similar to Openmeetings, BigBlueButton uses red5, an

open source implementation of Adobes Flash Media
Server, to support its real-time collaboration.[5][6]

DoceboLMS (Saas/Cloud Learning Management

System)
Drupal (Content Management system)

History

Moodle (Learning Management System)

Sakai Project (Learning Management System)

In 2007 the project was started at Carleton University

by the Technology Innovation Management program.[7]
The rst version was written by Richard Alam (it was initially called the Blindside project) under the supervision
of Tony Bailetti.[8]

WordPress (Content Management System)

Ilias (Learning Management System)
1

See also

[17] BigBlueButton - Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. tiki.org.

Retrieved 2011-01-22.

Collaborative software

[18] BigBlueButtonPlugin - foswiki.org.

foswiki.org.
Archived from the original on 17 November 2010.
Retrieved 2010-11-19.

Web conferencing
Comparison of web conferencing software

REFERENCES

[19] BigBlueButton integration - lamscommunity.org. lamscommunity.org. Retrieved 2011-05-04.

References

[20] GSoC Organization for BigBlueButton. appspot.com.

Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[1] BigBlueButton Foundation

[2] open-source-license-2.

[21] Dixon, Fred. Minutes from BigBlueButton committers meeting 2010-04-27 - BigBlueButton-dev - Google
Groups. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[3] BigBlueButton Overview. bigbluebutton.org. Archived

from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 201010-23.

[22] Dixon, Fred BigBlueButton Foundation, BigBlueButton

Blog, July 12, 2010

[4] Installation - BigBlueButton - Overview of installation

options - Project Hosting on Google Code. BigBlueButton. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[23] Dixon, Fred. BigBlueButton 0.8-beta-3 released BigBlueButton-dev - Google Groups. Retrieved 201011-24.

[5] It also uses redis, the open-source key-value data store

software, to maintain an internal list of its meetings, attendees, and any other relevant information. Red5 : Open
Source Flash Server Open Source Flash. osash.org.
Archived from the original on 30 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[24] Dixon, Fred. BigBlueButton 0.80 Released. Retrieved

2012-07-16.

[6] Morales, Aurelio F. Open Source Collaboration Software

for Multipoint Video, Audio, and Text, FINAL PROJECT
REPORT FOR EEL5718 - COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, April, 2010.

[25] Dixon, Fred. BigBlueButton 0.81 Released. Retrieved

2014-04-16.
[26] Dixon, Fred. BigBlueButton 0.90-beta Released. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
[27] release-of-bigbluebutton-0-61.
[28] bigbluebutton-0-62-released.

[7] Nettleton, Rob BigBlueButton, EDC Blog, June 4, 2010.

[29] bigbluebutton-0-63-released.
[8] Lead Projects. TIM Review. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
[9] Dixon, Fred Lessons from an Open Source Business,
Open Source Business Resource, April, 2011.

[30] bigbluebutton-0-64-released.
[31] bigbluebutton-0-7-is-released.

[10] Home - Contrib: bigbluebutton - Conuence. sakaiproject.org. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010.
Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[32] bigbluebutton-0-71-is-released.

[11] WordPress Plugin Directory: BigBlueButton. wordpress.org. Archived from the original on 6 November
2010. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[34] bigbluebutton-0-8-beta-released.

[12] Moodle.org: Modules and plugins: BigBlueButton.

moodle.org. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[36] bigbluebutton-0-8-beta-4-released.

[33] bigbluebutton-0-71a-released.

[35] bigbluebutton-0-8-beta-3-released.

[37] bigbluebutton-0-8-released.
[13] BigBlueButton releases activity module integration for
Moodle 1.9 & 2.0. moodlenews.com. Retrieved 201101-18.

[38] eleventh-release.
[39] BigBlueButton 0.9.0-beta now available.

[14] BigBlueButton Integration - Joomla! Extensions Directory. joomla.org. Archived from the original on 20 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[40] BigBlueButton 0.9.0-RC Released.

[15] Redmine - PluginBBB - Redmine.

redmine.org.
Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved
2010-10-23.

[42] BigBlueButton 1.0-beta Released.

[16] BigBlueButton - drupal.org.

2010-10-23.

drupal.org.

Retrieved

[41] BigBlueButton 0.9.0.

[43] FAQ - BigBlueButton Frequently Asked Questions Project Hosting on Google Code. BigBlueButton. Retrieved 2010-10-24.

External links
Ocial website
BigBlueButton issues and documentation at Google
Code
BigBlueButton source code at GitHub
Blindside Networks website
iMDT website

8 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

8.1

Text

BigBlueButton Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBlueButton?oldid=685930941 Contributors: Mike Linksvayer, Topbanana, Marclaporte, Jonathanischoice, Ffdixon, Rjwilmsi, Antidrugue, Solstag, DStoykov, Nick Number, Adamelk, Claudioerba, Perohanych, Brenont,
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8.2

Images

8.3

Content license

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0