[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap + BigBlueButton = win (multi conference chat, voice and video server for meetings/teachings

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

Hi Galls & Guys,

you should have a look at BigBlueButton as a multi conference and
video server for your meetings/teachings (http://bigbluebutton.org).

This is a great program, you can install it in a breeze, fully GPL
compliant and with a very active community.
Latest version has multi video conference with screen sharing, text
chat, slides control and  even shared whiteboard for annotations!

This is huge for remote teaching, and you don't need to subscribe to
any web page, nor pay anyone to use their server.
Maybe OpenStreetMap community can even help develop bbb further, a working
client that uses non-adobe gpl flash player would be sweet, for
example.

And no, I don't get paid by BigBlueButton at all    :P

You should also consider BigBlueButton (http://bigbluebutton.org) if
you want to host your own servers, and it's fully open source and
under a heavy development. There are scripts to install it very easily
in Redhat/CentOS and Ubuntu/Debian.

I first heard about bbb project on FLOSS Weekly podcast
(http://twit.tv/floss147)

Easiest way to see it in action is to first to check out their videos
(http://bigbluebutton.org/content/videos) and then test their live
demo server: http://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

Should I post this email to OpenSteetMap board or some other mailing list?
I'm not sure that OSM user mailing list is the right way for this proposal.

Cheers,
Valent.

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