I looked into BigBlueButton this morning, because someone recommended it to me on fedi, after I asked about remote confs with whiteboards.
Summary of my findings, copied over from chat:
seems OK, but not sure it's better than jitsi meet it doesn't come with any user accounts by default, but just an API but there's a rails app for managing meetings and recordings, and it supports LDAP so that could work it's similar to zoom i guess, api-wise but for kosmos chat and as a service, it would obviously be cool to just use plain xmpp for meeting management and permissions much easier to do from hyperchannel then, because a user doesn't have direct API access bigbluebutton shows a collaborative whiteboard by default, which is why it was recommended to me so, to sum it up: i guess the easy and automatable recordings are the biggest benefit vs jitsi meet and the whiteboard would handily solve that problem on the side but not sure it's great as an overall kosmos service
If we want to record meetings/sessions, there's a Jitsi module called Jibri:
Jibri provides services for recording or streaming a Jitsi Meet conference.
It works by launching a Chrome instance rendered in a virtual framebuffer and capturing and encoding the output with ffmpeg. It is intended to be run on a separate machine (or a VM), with no other applications using the display or audio devices. Only one recording at a time is supported on a single jibri.
This is becoming a priority with a deadline now, so we can use an opensource tool for remote participants at the upcoming Kosmos Summit.
Ideally using existing Kosmos XMPP/LDAP accounts for permission to create rooms, of course. And probably even kosmos.chat MUC rooms for the chat in Jitsi.
We were just charged again for €7.51. Pretty sure we're not using anything for that money anymore.
Just a small thing I caught: I tried adding a user with a $ char in the pw, and it didn't store the correct password. (In fact, I have no idea how I can reset it now.)
Not a biggie, as you would usually give out a simple "changeme" or similar, when using this manual method.
