# The Online Meeting Co-operative, meet.coop
**URL:** https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083
**Category:** General
**Tags:** coops
**Created:** [13 May 2020 11:34 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083 "2020-05-13T11:34:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 11:34 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/1 "2020-05-13T11:34:30Z")
I’m happy to announce that [DigidemLab](https://digidemlab.org/en/) / [Collective.tools](https://collective.tools/), [femProcomuns](https://femprocomuns.coop/) / [CommonsCloud](https://www.commonscloud.coop/) and [Webarchitects](https://www.webarchitects.coop/) have established a new co-operative with the aim of providing an open source, co-operative alternative to corporate systems such as Zoom:
> **[meet.coop - The Online Meeting Cooperative](https://www.meet.coop/)**
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> Online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy running on cooperatively owned and managed infrastructure.
Other organisations are welcome to get involved.
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### Author:  [@yasu](https://community.coops.tech/u/yasu)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 13:31 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/2 "2020-05-13T13:31:12Z")
Oh this is great! I would be certainly interested in joining and this completely overlaps with the Zoom-alternative thread here 😄
> [@Moving away from Zoom: ColloCall (co-op hosted solution)](https://community.coops.tech/t/moving-away-from-zoom-collocall-co-op-hosted-solution/2056/34):
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> Continuing on mobile device support, I have some new datapoints. BBB on Mobile Had a bunch of calls with people on mobile platforms, here’s a summary! BBB web client works on mobile, no app is needed iPad and Android devices work even better than I expected! Clear audio, video, drawing on whiteboard, PDF upload and presenting, everything works great smiley first time users who aren’t especially tech-savvy had no trouble One Android phone, from an unknown manufacturer, has Chrome crashing w…
I can imagine a federated coop like this can become an international bastion of platform cooperativism? 😄
I think it would be nice if we can all meet (using this) and discuss ideas!
Btw, have you spoken to the original authors of BigBlueButton? My friends and I in Japan have recently looked at how to install BBB and a few unfinished docker-ization attempts left in the repositories.
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### Author:  [@SzczepanOfAnimorph](https://community.coops.tech/u/SzczepanOfAnimorph)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 15:21 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/3 "2020-05-13T15:21:38Z")
Well done @chris, just emailed the address from the website, hopefully our co-op can become a member organisation. So exciting!
Could we possibly try it out on coming Friday evening for [CoTech e-drinks](https://community.coops.tech/t/cotech-catch-up-drink-s-friday-15th-may-6-30pm/2076)?
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 15:30 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/4 "2020-05-13T15:30:08Z")
> [@SzczepanOfAnimorph](#):
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> Could we possibly try it out on coming Friday evening for [CoTech e-drinks](https://community.coops.tech/t/cotech-catch-up-drink-s-friday-15th-may-6-30pm/2076)?
We don’t yet have a BigBlueButton server up and running but as soon as one is I’ll let you know.
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### Author:  [@nmeyne](https://community.coops.tech/u/nmeyne)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 18:31 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/5 "2020-05-13T18:31:46Z")
Hi Chris. Would you be able to comment on the applicability / strength of Big Blue Button for live music streaming?
…at decent quality (not necessarily sync / collaborative playing!) …and an ability to easily switch from best broadcast quality back to collaborative / meetup quallity…
We here at Resonate.IS the music streaming co-op are interested in doing a good privacy-respecting job here 🙂
Nick
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### Author:  [@nmeyne](https://community.coops.tech/u/nmeyne)
#### Post date: [13 May 2020 18:51 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/6 "2020-05-13T18:51:49Z")
Or maybe these remain more appropriate for streaming at quality and it is best to swap between streaming and meeting…
[https://openstreamingplatform.com/](https://openstreamingplatform.com/)
> **[Open Broadcaster Software | OBS](https://obsproject.com/)**
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> OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [14 May 2020 08:30 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/7 "2020-05-14T08:30:30Z")
@nmeyne if you want two way interaction then BigBlueButton makes sense, if you just want to broadcast then I don’t think it does.
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### Author:  [@nmeyne](https://community.coops.tech/u/nmeyne)
#### Post date: [14 May 2020 10:41 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/8 "2020-05-14T10:41:38Z")
Thanks Chris. Agree… But I think we need both… and a means of swapping seamlessly between broadcast performance mode and audience chat / interaction mode. I think it will be clunky. 🙂
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### Author:  [@decentral1se](https://community.coops.tech/u/decentral1se)
#### Post date: [14 May 2020 16:35 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/9 "2020-05-14T16:35:17Z")
> ☀ C O N G R A T S ☀
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [14 May 2020 16:50 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/10 "2020-05-14T16:50:58Z")
We had our second [meet.coop](https://meet.coop/) weekly BBB organising meeting today with co-operators from 4 continents present and I have just setup [wiki.meet.coop](https://wiki.meet.coop/wiki/Main_Page) for the co-operative to document everything.
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### Author:  [@shaun](https://community.coops.tech/u/shaun)
#### Post date: [14 May 2020 17:17 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/11 "2020-05-14T17:17:14Z")
Brilliant! Just what we need.
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### Author:  [@yasu](https://community.coops.tech/u/yasu)
#### Post date: [15 May 2020 02:53 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/12 "2020-05-15T02:53:18Z")
As mentioned in another thread:
> [@Platform coops course from Mondragón + The New School](https://community.coops.tech/t/platform-coops-course-from-mondragon-the-new-school/2078/3):
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> Hi! You can write to Ana Aguirre (ana@tzbz.coop) for more information, best wishes!
This Platform Cooperativism course is coming up. I think meet.coop could be an excellent subject!!
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [28 May 2020 16:19 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/13 "2020-05-28T16:19:50Z")
Today the Online Meeting Co-operative decided today to host [the first meet.coop server](https://wiki.meet.coop/wiki/Alpha_server_options#Koumbit_offer) with [Koumbit co-operative](https://www.koumbit.org/en) in Montreal, Canada 🙂.
More information can be found on [the wiki](https://wiki.meet.coop/) and the Online Meeting Co-operative open Discourse forum:
> **[The meet.coop Forum](https://forum.meet.coop/)**
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> Support and discussion forum for The Online Meeting Co-operative
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [3 June 2020 07:56 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/14 "2020-06-03T07:56:40Z")
Last night I deployed a Online Meeting Co-operative BigBlueButton server that has open registration so people have give it a try, we should use it for the next CoTech call and I’d like to urge all the CoTech co-ops to sign up for an account and test it internally — I really want to get everyone off Zoom and onto an co-operative alternative!
> **[The Online Meeting Co-operative](https://demo.meet.coop/b)**
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> This server is hosted by The Online Meeting Co-operative, a co-operative, open source, meeting and conferencing platform, powered by BigBlueButton and by people and organisations who contribute time, servers and money to make this happen. You can...
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### Author:  [@alex](https://community.coops.tech/u/alex)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 11:12 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/15 "2020-06-04T11:12:27Z")
Thanks for this Chris. We will give it a go!
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 11:26 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/16 "2020-06-04T11:26:24Z")
Thanks @alex, all the code for deploying it is here:
> **[meet · GitLab](https://git.coop/meet)**
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> The Online Meeting Co-operative, meet.coop.
And if you have any feedback please post it to the forum:
> **[The meet.coop Forum](https://forum.meet.coop/)**
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> Support and discussion forum for The Online Meeting Co-operative
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### Author:  [@SzczepanOfAnimorph](https://community.coops.tech/u/SzczepanOfAnimorph)
#### Post date: [5 June 2020 10:57 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/17 "2020-06-05T10:57:58Z")
Wow, just gave it an initial spin and it’s swish! Will hold Animorph general meeting on it next week and will come back with feedback.
Thanks so much for making it happen!!!
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### Author:  [@mjray](https://community.coops.tech/u/mjray)
#### Post date: [11 June 2020 17:40 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/18 "2020-06-11T17:40:46Z")
There’s a COVID 19 hackathon next week. I mention it here because packaging Big Blue Button for easy deployment to debian-using servers is on its task list. Is anyone willing to help?
> **[COVID 19 Hackathon packages needing work · Wiki · Debian Med / community /...](https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work)**
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> Planning the Debian-Med team's participation in the 2020-covid19 biohackathon
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### Author:  [@chris](https://community.coops.tech/u/chris)
#### Post date: [11 June 2020 19:22 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative-meet-coop/2083/19 "2020-06-11T19:22:51Z")
Thanks for posting that @mjray, it would be an interesting learning exercise, even if it ultimately failed…
The current version of BigBlueButton, 2.2, runs on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial and pulls in most of the software as `.deb`'s, from [three repos](https://git.coop/meet/bbb/-/blob/master/tasks/bbb.yml#L55), so I guess the first job would be to identify all of the packages and then look how many are already in Debian and how many would need adding and also how many are the wrong versions.
The next version of BigBlueButton, 2.4 will run on Ubuntu 18.04 and that might be more realistic to target for Buster, however there are no releases for it yet.
If I had some time to spend on this I’d probably start with looking at packaging Greenlight, the HTML5 front end, for Debian Buster, currently this is [run via Docker on Alpine](https://git.coop/meet/greenlight/-/blob/custom-v2/Dockerfile) — having multiple Debian VMs for Greenlight with BBB on Ubuntu for the backend would be an approach I’d probably prefer for hosting the application.
However time is really in short supply and we have written [Ansible to deploy BigBlueButton](https://git.coop/meet) and this is working well, we hosted a meeting for 50+ people today and the [server didn’t break into a sweat](https://forum.meet.coop/t/107).