On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 10:26:45PM -0800, D MacDougall wrote: > On 1/31/25 02:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Thing is -- you always have some. Use it. Sometimes it's direct, > > sometimes via advocacy groups, the best being to combine both. > ... > > Most of the time, the "normal" size is 30s to 40s of users. And I have > > seen BBB perform surprisingly well there. Two examples > > > > - our local bi-monthly free software meet, which is hybrid (about > > five local, about 20-30 remote). Big Blue Button works like a charm > > > > - the local music school, which started teleconferencing during > > the pandemic, which has a self-hosted and specially tuned BBB > > instance (for low latency: musicians tend to care about this). > > > > That's just in our small town. > > > > Cheers > That's very interesting, thanks for the info.
I just wanted to dispell the impression that "there's no choice". That's what a commercial entity's marketing department wants you to believe -- after all, they get paid for that. As another encouraging datapoint, there's Senfcall [0], a not for profit set up back then during pandemic to allow private persons to set up video calls (they use BBB). They got so flooded in donations that they aren't taking any at the moment, and propose other organizations to send the money to [1]. Free software is an interal part of a free society, and, as the latter, takes a lot of small-scale work. It's nothing you can "buy". Cheers [0] https://www.senfcall.de/ [1] https://www.senfcall.de/donate/ -- t
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