BigBlueButton

=Consideration= Might be worth checking if this is a good choice. I think it is fairly resource greedy on the server and, late last summer, remember reports of servers crashing when they got a lot of people on them ( maybe 20+ ? - I can't remember ) With the right server guess it would probaby all be great - maybe try to talk to somebody whos been heavily involved in the development see what they think.

Unless I'm mistaken it looks to me like Jitsi Online conferencing will do a similar job without needing a server??

=Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 10.04=

Follow this

To accept agreements within terminal, press tab + enter.

Open ports with the command:

sudo ufw allow NUMBER

Open ports 80 (HTTP), 9123 (Desktop Sharing), 1935 (RTMP).

In terminal, type ifconfig to display the LAN server's IP address.

=WRT54GL Wireless Router Changes=

Connect the router to your computer with an ethernet cable.

Open an internet browser and go to:

http://192.168.1.1

Id is root and password is admin

=Setting an External Route to Your BBB Conference=

example a DNS record like bbb.oshinitiative.org, which points to your external IP address (This needs ideally to be static). Then set your firewall to port forward all traffic for bbb.oshinitiative.org to your BBB server, chat with tech at your ISP if you need help with the above
 * Set up an external route to your BBB server, this will involve DNS, for

bbb.oshinitiative.org. This is easy open a command prompt as root and type
 * Next you need to configure BBB to respond to connections at the domain

bbb-conf --set-ip bbb.oshinitiative.org

That should sort it out, then tell folks to point their browser to bbb.oshinitiative.org.

BigBlueButton Configuration

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=Setting up a Landing Page=

For setting up a landing page for people to login, see also

[http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_setup_new_classrooms_in_BigBlueButton_? Setting up New Conferences]

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