For the "BigBlueButton Developers Community Hackathon 2020" organised by Faircom, Ghazi Triki from RIADVICE gave a 2 hours talk about: - The history of RIADVICE. - Ghazi Triki open source contributor background. - The BigBlueButton history. - BigBlueButton integrations and its community. - BigBlueButton 2.3 Road Map Fall 2020. - BigBlueButton main contributions guidelines. - Consideration to take in production for BigBlueButton.

1. BigBlueButton
Developers
Community
Hackathon 2020
GHAZI TRIKI
22 AUGUST, 2020
Guest:
Hosted by:

2. RIADIVCE – The
Company
- Located in Tunisia.
- Founded in August 2013.
- 50+ Customers.
- 30 Countries.

3. /
RIADIVCE - Services
- BigBlueButton Services.
- Software Engineering.
- IT Consulting.
- Project Management.

4. RIADVICE – BigBlueButton Projects
PROJECTS
Custom builds
Private labelled VOIP servers
LMS
INDUSTRIES
Telecommunications
Medical Centres
Education (Universties, Shcools,
Training centres…)
Call centres

5. RIADIVCE –
In Numbers
- Managing around 200 servers.
- 370k BigBlueButton Meetings
from December 2019 to July 2020.

6. Ghazi Triki -
Background
- Media Engineering Project Management [France]
- Worked from 2008 to 2012 at Servebox [France]
- Worked in 2 companies in Tunisia.
IT Production Manager (Memac Ogilvy Label Tunisia)
- Mobilizing the 12th Man
- 44 International Awards [2 Grand Prix, 7 Gold]

7. Ghazi Triki – Open Source (2008-2013)
Open Source
Contributor
Since 2008
Flex Foundry
Framework
Maven Flex
Plugin
Actionscript
Cafe
Since 2012 ActiveAIRCord
StarlingMVC
Wings
Kalim

8. Ghazi Triki – Open Source (Since 2013)
Long-term
contributions
BigBlueButton
BigBlueButton
API PHP
BigBlueButton
Font
Small
Contributions
ForkCMS Omnipay AlivePDF

9. BigBlueButton –
History 1
2007
•Project started at Carleton University
•Project written under TIM (Technology Innovation
Program)
2008
•Created the company, BlindSide Networks Inc.
•Leveraged a community
2011
•Recordings playback.
•Leveraged a community
•MConf Started working on BigBlueButton

10. BigBlueButton –
History 2
2012
•The first developer summit
2013
•HTML5 Client prototype
•Accessibility certificate with version 0.81
2016
•Version 1.0 released
2019
•Version 2.0.0 released

11. BigBlueButton -
Technologies
JVM
◦ Java
◦ Scala
◦ Groovy
Javascript (Node.js)
Ruby
Shell Scripts
C++ (FreeSwitch, Kurento Media Server)
Python

12. BigBlueButton –
Current Versions
Latest Stable release:
2.2.22
Current development:
2.3-alpha-1

13. BigBlueButton –
The community
Github
• bigbluebutton-users
• bigbluebutton-dev
• bigbluebutton-setup
Google Forums
docs.bigbluebutton.org
greenlight

14. BigBlueButton - Integrations
Atutor Canvas Chamilo Drupal * Docebo
Fedena
LTI (Open
edX) *
Moodle Redmine Sakai
Schoology SmartClass Wordpress Mattermost
* New implementation ready or near to be released

15. BigBlueButton –
Commercial
Support Providers
BlindSide Networks Inc. (Canada)
Distance Learning Solutions (USA)
iMDT (Brazil)
Mconf (Brazil)
RIADVICE (Tunisia)

49. BigBlueButton - Development Tools
mutagen.io Eclipse IDE
A
development
machine
Local with
Vagrant
Distant on the
cloud
Shell

50. BigBlueButton –
Main Contributions
Guidelines
- Sign the contributor agreement.
- Understand well the high-level architecture of BigBlueButton.
- Know well the area you are working on.
- Make your feature configurable.
- Accessibility is a must for UI.
- Think about recordings.
- Log actions smartly (meetingId, userId…)
- Make it ready for production.
- Test it well and get help testing it.

51. BigBlueButton –
Contribution – On
roadmap features
- Check Github issues.
- Read the forums.
- Ask for a small task assignement.

52. BigBlueButton –
Contribution – Out
of roadmap features
Code review & merge
Make sure the feature adds a real value to
the open source product
Target a version
Write a design
document
Don’t try to copy the
competition
Get the core team
validation
•Product Management
•R&D Team
•UI/UX validation

53. BigBlueButton –
Consideration to
take in production
Secure your servers
Fail2ban
Apparmor
Wazuh
Put monitoring and
alerting
Zabbix + Zulip
Netdata
Grafana + Prometheus
ELK
checkmk
Create shell script for redundant tasks
Have a coturn server to avoid blocking
firewall issues

54. BigBlueButton - Nice to have (by
RIADVICE)
Better recordings
management.
Web user interface.
Check recordings with
errors.
Presentation
export with
annotations.
Move away from
JVM 8 to JVM 11.
Have reviewed
translations.
Use PM2 for the
HTML5 application.
Code auto-
formatting
configuration.

55. Thank you ALL YOUR QUESTIONS
ARE WELCOME