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BigBlueButton

★ 9k

Virtual classroom platform with whiteboards, breakout rooms, polls, and recordings.

BigBlueButton does the job of Zoom Webinars, self-hosted. It is LGPL-3.0-licensed, a copyleft licence, and running it properly takes real ops work. Zoom Webinars bills $79 for it. 9k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for Zoom Webinars.

Licence
LGPL-3.0
Self-hosting
Hard
The paid one costs
$79
GitHub stars
9k
view the code →official site →

Is it actually a replacement?

We have not written a verdict on Zoom Webinars yet, so this page says what BigBlueButton is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.

BigBlueButton questions

Is BigBlueButton open source?

Yes — it is released under LGPL-3.0.

Can I self-host BigBlueButton?

Yes — we rate it hard to self-host.

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