Big Blue Button Dev Guide

1. Exploring Big Blue Button and it's Architecture

Consider following sources:

• http://bigbluebutton.org/overview
• http://bigbluebutton.org/content/videos
• http://myprogrammingblog.com/category/project-bbb/ (some components such as Redis and FreeSwitch changed after this posts are written)
• http://www.bigbluebutton.org/blog/

2.Installing Big Blue Button and Setting Up Big Blue Button Development Environment

You can install Big Blue Button either on Windows with Virtual Machine or on Linux Ubuntu.

Important!!! When installing OS use "firstuser" as a root account. Install Big Blue Button (BBB later in the text) in "firstuser" Important!!! To avoid permission problems type "umask 022" before you start installing BBB

Before installations subscribe to 2 BBB mailing lists:

• http://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-dev
• http://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-setup

All questions you have regarding installation address to bigbluebutton-setup, regarding development to bigbluebutton-dev. (Try to use their search and find answers, before you ask the question)

To install Big Blue Button:

• http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html

To set up development environment:

• http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/setup.html

To set up HTML5 client environment:

• http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/html/html5-dev.html

You will also need:

• IRC client. For example you an use - [http://www.mirc.com/get.html mIrc (Windows), or xChat (Ubuntu) using Synaptic Package Manager.

When client is installed connect to irc.freenode.net and join channels #seneca, #seneca-cdot

• Eclipse for Java Developers

• Use GitHub to get latest version of Modules from https://github.com/myprogrammingblog/polling-module
• To see what has been done: https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/tree/master/web-polling

For more question contact Anatoly Spektor : anatolijs.spektors@senecac.on.ca