Can you still remember? Back in the spring of 2020? It affected us emotionally, too. Technically, we were already prepared as a remote company. In our post of 13 March 2020, we quickly introduced BigBlueButton. In a hurry, because we needed immediate solutions in the crisis. Solutions that support digital sovereignty because they are self-hostable and configurable in a data protection-friendly way.
Since then, we have been able to acquire great new clients: Schools, institutions, administrations, small and medium-sized enterprises and some solopreneurs. We have converted the associations in which we are active to BBB. And we now only operate BigBlueButton in scalable clusters. On systems provided by us or via our "bring your own server" offer.
With the power of the BBB community
Getting into the depths of BigBlueButton clearly takes a lifetime. So it was a relief that over time there were more and more interested people who shared their experiences with this programme and became increasingly professional in the process.
Thus a strong BBB community was formed in Germany. It organised itself via two regular regulars' tables or meetups and also came together on its own matrix chat channel, via mailing lists and at meetings in the issue queue from the project itself. Without these common communication channels, we would never have been able to raise the use of BigBlueButton to the qualitative level that has accompanied us for more than a year - and continues to challenge us to optimise it.
