Charming Plan: BigBlueButton

[timClicks (Tim McNamara)]

This page is a follow-up to an earlier discussion:

Candidates for charming - BigBlueButton, Jitsi Meet

Would anyone like to work together on charming up some open source video conferencing options? Jitsi Meet seems to be a relatively simple stack for charming. Its focus appears to be for small group conversations. Its components appear to be: prosody NGINX Jitsi Videobridge Jitsi Conference Focus BigBlueButton would be a large project, but very rewarding. A BBB instance can support hundreds of concurrent users. Its focus is education and lots of users at schools and universities. Some of its …

Deploying BigBlueButton properly is complex. Here’s a diagram from the official architecture page:

We’ll take a staged approach. Rather than try to charm everything and then try to wire each of the charms together, we’ll start with one large charm and slim it down over time.

Stage	Elements	Benefit
1 (basic install)
	all systems are deployed onto a large instance Binary artifacts are deployed as resources few (if any) relations	Juju becomes easy to deploy behind the firewall
	create Scalelite charm create BBB bundle	horizontal scaling of BBB becomes trivial
1 (network)		Simplify deployment behind the firewall
	charm Coturn
	add support for http/etc relations
2 (database servers)		Increased performance because contention is reduced
	Revive MongoDB charm Add MongoDB relation
	Revive Redis charm Add redis relation
3 (application servers)		Fewer load spikes on machines hosting meetings
	create LibreOffice Server charm
	create Etherpad charm
3 (meeting)		Cheaper scaling
	FreeSWITCH
	Kurento Media Server
	BigBlueButton itself

[erik-lonroth (Erik Lönroth)]

@timClicks

Jitsi Meet seems to be a relatively simple stack for charming. Its focus appears to be for small group conversations. Its components appear to be: prosody NGINX Jitsi Videobridge Jitsi Conference Focus

The edgeyriders community seems interested in Jitsi. I might be able to convince that they help out here. But it would be a lower bar if it could go in nicely with Nextcloud…

Update: A friend of mine is working professionally with nextcloud. I asked if it would be possible to create an integration and he thought so. He had setup a few Jitsi services as well… Might get some help there.

[timClicks (Tim McNamara)]

Fantastic. I’ll create another thread for Jitsi. I created this one because I have been chatting to upstream. There’s the possibility for some extra support.