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Re:BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system by Faaak on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:52PM (#22610274)
We use this product on our company of ~150 during the COVID work-at-home thingy.

It's quite great ! It supports audio and video and is quite reactive for us.

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Re:BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system by mkl on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @05:25PM (#22610630)
Cool. I have a few questions:

How many people can you have in sessions simultaneously?

Do you use the shared whiteboard? What's it like for people without a stylus?

Any idea why it requires such an ancient version of Ubuntu (16.04)?

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Re:BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system by pretendgeneer on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:58PM (#22611533)
That readme is 17months old. and the reference to 16.04 is atleast 3 years old. So it may just not have been properly updated.
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Re:BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system by DarkStar851 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:11AM (#22613821)
Taking a quick look, this should be able to run without issue on any distribution. They're using Docker to run all the components. No Ubuntu-specific dependencies.
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Re:BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system by weitzj on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:58AM (#22614296)
Do you have some numbers what capacity one needs for this many people? Is it webrtc? Can you have more than 10 in a video call?
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Re:BigBlueButton: An open source web conferencing system by v0tary on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:10PM (#22611651)
Several schools in the US are using this for online classes in the face of COVID-19.
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