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= Big Blue Button Developer 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://bigbluebutton-blog.blogspot.com/



=== 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 on Ubuntu use:'''

*http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/08InstallationUbuntu


'''To install on Windows use:'''

*http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/BigBlueButtonVM


'''To set up development environment:'''

*http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/DevelopingBBB

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'''

*[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/indigosr1 Eclipse for Java Developers ]


*Use [http://help.github.com/git-cheat-sheets/ GitHub] to get latest version of Modules from https://github.com/myprogrammingblog/polling-module


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