Fred Dixon BigBlueButton Developer ffdixon@bigbluebutton.org Overview Growth of Community Adoption of BigBlueButton Current Release Road Map Questions BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for distance education
Goal: Provide remote students a high quality learning experience
Pain: Cost, low adoption, inability to integrate
Use Cases Virtual Office Hours
Small Group Collaboration
Remote Teaching (< 25 students) Interface Slides Audio Video Chat Desktop Sharing Want to see 20+ webcams? Yep, its possible 6 On the Shoulders of Giants red5 FreeSWITCH swftools tomcat6 redis nginx ffmpeg
Global trend towards distance education 150 Commercial systems 1 Open Source Business Model Lets go for it!
[1] http://thinkofit.com/webconf/realtime.htm
Before After $$$ $ Sept-08 Jun-09 0.4 Jul-09 0.5 0.32 Desktop Sharing Aug-09 0.60 VoIP Sep-09 0.61 VM Voice Slides Video Chat Packaging Refactoring Nov-09 Jan-10 0.63 Apr-10 0.64 0.62 Dev VM Desktop Sharing II Localization API VoIP II RPM Larger Meetings Desktop Sharing III July-10 0.70 Whiteboard Nov-10 Jan-11 0.71a Sept-11 0.8-beta1 0.71 Real-time translation Improved VoIP Refactored VoIP Record and Playback Refactored VoIP II Oct-11 0.8-beta2 Video Dock Nov-11 0.8-beta3 Audio Settings Mar-XX 0.8-beta4 http://code.google.com/p/bigblu ebutton/wiki/RoadMap1dot0
Observation
Treat each release like product release. Make stability and quality part of our brand.
How is the community? Open Source 1033 members on developer mailing list Active community: 14k+ messages GSOC 2010 Forked 266 times on GitHUB Localized into 35 languages WebFWD 2011 Install in 30 minutes (or your money back!)
18 BigBlueButton on Android Android version of BigBlueButton now in development by team in Brazil
See http://bit.ly/iaE7NJ 19 Polling Module Seneca College The Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology
See http://bit.ly/wxF 61H Market shift to BigBlueButton Re: [Building Sakai] Video + desktop streaming in Sakai by Adrian Fish Feb 02, 2010; 08:42am
I'm currently playing with BigBlueButton which seems promising. ...I was actually thinking of investigating Red5 for an update of Agora but it seems crazy when BigBlueButton is around and open source.
Cheers, Adrian Fish Integration Sakai Meeting Tool Create Meetings Recorded Duration Join Open/Join Close Date Permissions Calendar
BigBlueButton 0.8 BigBlueButton 0.8 Recording of sessions Lower latency audio HTML 5 playback Integration with Matterhorn Upload of slides via API
Video Dock Audio Settings Fit to Width Record and Playback 1. Capture and archive individual media and events 2. Create a workflow to process and publish recordings 3. Make the workflow extensible 4. Extend the BigBlueButton API 5. Provide HTML5 playback of recordings
35 36 media (slides + audio) + events.xml Archived Processed Published Redis FreeSWITCH Red5 37 slides.rb slides.rb Archived Processed Published 38 /usr/local/bigbluebutton/core/scripts /process /publish slides.rb slides.rb Archived Processed Published
Development Process Committers Current Committers Richard Alam, Lead Architect Marco Calderon, Server Felipe Cecagno, Client Fred Dixon, Packaging Tiago Jacobs, red5 Jeremy Thomerson, API Denis Zgonjanin, Client
Development Process 1. Committers meeting Retrospective & Roadmap 2. Planning and Design Design and prototyping Post specifications to bigbluebutton-dev 3. Implementation Get quickly to a working prototype Test internally (fix obvious bugs) Integrate into packaging
Development Process (cont) Testing (long) Phase I: Install on Demo First external look at new features Phase II: Packaging New install (32-bit and 64-bit) Upgrade from previous version (32-bit and 64-bit) Phase III: BigBlueButton VM Widen the community of testing Phase IV: Documentation and Videos Profiling, Bug Fixing, Stability
Our perspective We release on quality, not dates.
Road Map Four areas Core 1. Stability 2. Usability 3. Features 4. Modularity
Building on the core Scalability HTML5 and other platforms Usability Layout Manager Full Screen Mode Support for students with disabilities
Algonquin College is doing a UI review of BigBlueButton that will be published
Features Record and Playback Full support for playback of video, desktop sharing, whiteboard Missing components Synchronized video playback Polling Shared Notes Breakout rooms Text tool for whiteboard Increase speed of desktop sharing Modularity Modularity of Architecture Easier to integrate with other voice systems Modularity of client-side components Easier to add/remove 3 rd party modules Layout manager Control layout of BigBlueButton
HTML5 and Other Platforms Implement three phases Playback of recordings Viewer Full two-way
Other platforms iPad/iPhone
Questions Questions
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Fred Dixon, BigBlueButton Developer ffdixon@bigbluebutton.org
