Re: Are the questions technical, or organizational?

[Yasuaki Kudo]

Hi Jim,

(I'm sorry I don't remember how I joined this mailing list but...) 

I think your point is very similar to mine at:

https://community.coops.tech/t/moving-away-from-zoom-collocall-co-op-hosted-solution/2056/9

I have not done any serious evaluation of BBB but I think you could be right that we do have the software and and what we need is something like the so-called platform cooperativism" 

I would love to discuss further if you are interested!

Cheers,

Yasu

On May 4, 2020, at 12:06, address@hidden wrote:

I'm wondering: if there's a consensus that Big Blue Button is robust, effective, and can handle large meetings, is our situation that we essentially have the software we need, and the question is how to organize making it available to people?  Who would host BBB in a way that it can be accessed widely?  What would the funding model be?

Framasoft and Opendesktop.org seem to be pursuing the project of making Free groupware software available.  Their funding model is based on donations, and it seems to work.  Alternatively, a business could sell access to the service.  For example, 8x8.com sells Jitsi-based communications services and funds Jitsi development.

Thoughts?  Do we have the software we need?

-Jim