Just a quick update: I organized an account with NZOSS and I can now (in theory) run online meetings via BBB.
Another update: on Monday night, I organized an online meeting via BigBlueButton for the Python meetup, which went quite well (Ian was presenting and Rod was present as well). Presenters can share their screen to demo stuff. For presentations, it is best to upload a PDF and then use the built-in slide show capability of BBB, as it also gives you a (red) virtual laser pointer that helps pointing out things during your presentation (also saves bandwidth and processing at the presenter's end). When sharing the screen mouse pointers don't always seem to be visible for some reason... And, of course, it all runs in the browser. Not third-party installation necessary. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/