Video calls
BigBlueButton
Virtual classroom and meeting platform.
open source self-hostable Blindside Networks (BigBlueButton) · CABuilt for teaching: whiteboard, breakout rooms, polls; heavy to host, common at European universities.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Video calls” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Blindside Networks (BigBlueButton) (CA) |
|---|---|
| Licence | LGPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 8192 MB RAM · 4 vCPU · 50 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Zoom |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 9,207 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Java |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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