BigBlueButton

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BigBlueButton
Developer(s) BigBlueButton Inc. [1]
Stable release
2.7.4 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 15 January 2024;56 days ago (15 January 2024)
Repository github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
Written in Java, Grails/Groovy, Scala (back-end), JavaScript/React (web framework) (front-end client)
Operating system Linux
Type Collaborative software, Web conferencing
License LGPL [3]
Website bigbluebutton.org

BigBlueButton is a virtual classroom software program designed for online education. It is accessed through Learning Management Systems, the application provides engagement tools and analytics for educators to interact with their students remotely. It is open source, except for some versions of its database software.

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History

The project was started at Carleton University in 2007 by the Technology Innovation Management program. [4] The first version was written by Richard Alam (it was initially called the Blindside project) under the supervision of Tony Bailetti. [5] BigBlueButton is an affiliate member of the Open Source Initiative. [6] The BigBlueButton name comes from the initial concept that starting a web conference should be as simple as pressing a metaphorical big blue button. [7]

In 2009 Richard Alam, Denis Zgonjanin, and Fred Dixon 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. [8]

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, [9] WordPress, [10] Moodle 1.9, [11] [12] Moodle 2.0, [12] Joomla, [13] Redmine, [14] Drupal, [15] Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, [16] Foswiki, [17] and LAMS. [18] Google accepted BigBlueButton into the 2010 Google Summer of Code program. [19] To encourage contributions from others, the core developers moved the source code from Google Code to GitHub. [20] The project indicated its intent to create an independent, not-for-profit BigBlueButton Foundation to oversee future development. [21]

In 2011, the core developers announced they were adding record and playback capabilities to BigBlueButton 0.80. [22]

In 2020, the project released BigBlueButton 2.2, a full rewrite of the client and server to support HTML5. [23]

In March 2020, BigBlueButton 2.2 was awarded by the President of the ENTD, [24] Pasquale Aiello, as the best web conferencing system and used in the project UNIOPEN [25] approved by the European Commission for Digital Skills and Job Coalition [26] action plan.

In 2021, version 2.3 was released. BigBlueButton continued to depend on MongoDB, which became proprietary in version 3.6 and later, released in 2018. BigBlueButton 2.3 is the first which recommends using a proprietary MongoDB version, but remains compatible with the free software 3.4 MongoDB.

In 2022, BigBlueButton was directly embedded into the Moodle 4.0 core, the largest Learning Management System. It also released two new updates that included BigBlueButton 2.4 in January, and BigBlueButton 2.5 in late September. BigBlueButton continues to be used by organizations including the Ministry of National Education (France), the Air Education and Training Command, not-for-profits such as School on Wheels, and schools throughout the world for remote learning and teaching.

VersionRelease date
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.412 June 2009
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.521 July 2009
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.6012 August 2009
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.7015 July 2010 [27]
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.8-beta112 September 2011 [28]
Old version, no longer maintained: 0.90-beta15 October 2014 [29]
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.0-beta6 October 2015 [30]
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.125 May 2017
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.211 March 2020
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.330 April 2021
Older version, yet still maintained: 2.420 December 2021 [31]
Current stable version:2.59 June 2022 [32]
2.621 March 2023 [33]
2.77 Sept 2023 [34]
Legend:
Old version
Older version, still maintained
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release

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Architecture

As a web page application, BigBlueButton front end uses React and the back end uses MongoDB and Node.js. It also uses Redis to maintain an internal list of its meetings, attendees, and any other relevant information. As of version 2.5, the server runs on Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit and can be installed either from packages [35] or an install script. [36]

Adoption among non-profits

In 2020, BigBlueButton has been adopted by many FLOSS focused non-profits including Wikimedia Australia, Constant vzw [37] and new FLOSS focused coops like Catalan's The Online Meeting Cooperative. [38] In France it is recommended since May 2020 by the Digital Interministry Direction defining the state's information and communication systems. [39]

Third-party integrations

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References

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  2. ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
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  9. ↑ "Home – Contrib: bigbluebutton – Confluence". sakaiproject.org. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
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  11. ↑ "Moodle.org: Modules and plugins: BigBlueButton". moodle.org. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  12. 1 2 "BigBlueButton releases activity module integration for Moodle 1.9 & 2.0". lmspulse.com. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
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  29. ↑ BigBlueButton 0.9.0-beta now available. 16 October 2014.
  30. ↑ BigBlueButton 1.0-beta Released. 6 October 2015.
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