20th BigBlueButton Developer Conference
Join us in Berlin, Dec 2-6th, for our 20th Developer Conference to accelerate the capabilities of BigBlueButton for the global community.
Welcome to the 20th BigBlueButton Developer Conference
Join the BigBlueButton core developers in Berlin from December 2-6 for five days dedicated to hands-on development, collaboration, and sprints to advance the platform.
We’ll be gathering at Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) (location and room details to be posted soon)
Building on the success of our 19th Summit in April 2024 (Brazil), we return to Berlin for another week of working closely with the European community. As with each Summit, at end of the five days we'll make closing presentations with the global BigBlueButton community starting at 13:00 UTC.
Our summits are designed for collaboration. We welcome experienced developers, UX designers, and instructional technologists (especially those with experience in adapting content for online classes), BigBlueButton administrators, and anyone deeply engaged in the BigBlueButton project to join us in person.
The projects will be based on the upcoming release of BigBlueButton 3.0, which is our most scalable, capable, and extensible release yet. The extensibility comes from the multi-year work to build a plug-in system for BigBlueButton. For example, in BigBlueButton 3.0 the Select random user feature will be done entirely in a plug-in.
Planned Projects for the Summit
We organize into teams on the first day of the summit. Here are sample projects that we expect to be working on.
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Enhanced Audio Quality: The core team will explore opportunities for refining audio and video quality by continuing the work to integrate livekit.io into the core of BigBlueButton. The goal is to have it running behind a feature flag in BigBlueButton 3.0 so everyone can test and try out.
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Hybrid Teaching: Expanding on last year’s work, we’ll investigate ways to seamlessly integrate BigBlueButton into physical classrooms, enabling students to join polls and discussions through a lightweight client experience on existing in-room video hardware.
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Plug-in Architecture: As we move towards BigBlueButton 3.0, we’re accelerating work on a plug-in architecture to extend client functionality. The Plugin SDK has been released, and we’ll be extending BigBlueButton using this capabilities.
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User Interface Design: We’ll continue enhancing the BigBlueButton user experience with a more consistent, modular design to improve usability and support plug-in extensions.
Additional topics may include accessibility improvements (e.g., live transcriptions and translations), stress-testing recent builds, refining documentation, and enhancing integrations through the API or LTI standards.
Registration is free. Please register above
About BigBlueButton
BigBlueButton is a virtual classroom designed for educational organizations world-wide. If you are frustrated with the limitations of traditional video conferencing tools for online teaching, in contrast BigBlueButton offers built-in tools for active learning and live analytics to ensure every student learns.
Open source, developed by a global community, driven by pedagogy, BigBlueButton is built-into Canvas, Moodle, and Schoology as their default virtual classroom.
For more information, see https://bigbluebutton.org/.
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
As an online specialist in education, Didaris, together with over 30 chambers of industry and commerce and a large selection of experienced lecturers, helps ensure that further education is possible for everyone - no matter where in the world you are.
Premium Sponsors
Blindside Networks are the creators of BigBlueButton. Blindside Networks provides premium BigBlueButton hosting and services support, which help teachers and students unlock the full potential of BigBlueButton through the customisation of many of the best features of the platform.
Blindside Networks Inc. uses BigBlueButton and is not endorsed or certified by BigBlueButton Inc. BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton Logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc.
Mconf is a Brazilian company with over 10 years experience developing video conferencing solutions based on BigBlueButton to meet various needs (see elos.vc, our virtual classroom, and triades.vc, focused on court hearings). Mconf actively contributes to the development and improvement of BigBlueButton and is the company that hosts the BigBlueButton Summits in Brazil.
With a rich 20-year history, iMDT has been indirectly involved with BigBlueButton right from the start, as we were actively engaged in the development of the Red5 media server, which formed the foundation of the initial version of BigBlueButton. Since those early days, our commitment to BigBlueButton has only grown stronger. Supported by a partnership with BlindSideNetworks, we work on daily basis to improve BigBlueButton, shaping the future of this remarkable platform.
The Apereo Foundation works to increase the awareness and adoption of open source software in and for education. The Foundation supports open source projects used in thousands of colleges and universities worldwide. Our international community of educators, developers, academic institutions, and commercial partners deliver industry-leading open source software serving the academic mission.
think modular is an Austrian full-service provider with a focus on international settings (learning, networking, conferencing across the globe). We offer simultaneous translation embedded in BigBlueButton and maintain the official BigBlueButton-Drupal Integration.
We particularly want to thank ZKI, the German association of Higher Education IT centers, for its members that have collectively supported the overall development of BigBlueButton.
Venue
We wish to thank our host Technische Universität Berlin for providing us the facilities to hold our 20th Developer Summit. TU Berlin is a user BigBlueButton as well (see more). We are looking forward to gathering together again on their campus for another great summit.