# The Online Meeting Co-operative
**URL:** https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131
**Category:** Co-op
**Created:** [7 May 2020 14:24 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131 "2020-05-07T14:24:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@chris](https://members.webarchitects.coop/u/chris)
#### Post date: [7 May 2020 14:24 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131/1 "2020-05-07T14:24:20Z")
Webarchitects have been involved discussions about setting up a co-operative of co-operatives to co-operate on the setting up and maintenance of a [BigBlueButton](https://bigbluebutton.org/) server in order to provide an open source co-operative alternative to Zoom, the other two co-ops formally involved at this stage are:
- [DigidemLab](https://digidemlab.org/en/) / [Collective.tools](https://collective.tools/)
- [femProcomuns](https://femprocomuns.coop/) / [CommonsCloud](https://www.commonscloud.coop/)
Today we agreed a name for the new co-operative, _The Online Meeting Co-operative_ and we have registered the `meet.coop` domain name.
I should have some more news about this soon in terms of how other can get involved, what help is needed and when we hope to have a service up and running but wanted to share the initial progress so far here first.
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### Author:  [@chris](https://members.webarchitects.coop/u/chris)
#### Post date: [8 May 2020 12:17 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131/2 "2020-05-08T12:17:17Z")
There is now an initial website online:
> **[The Online Meeting Co-operative](https://www.org.meet.coop/)**
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> A co-operative, open source, meeting and conferencing platform, powered by BigBlueButton.
The only page with content is [the About page](https://www.org.meet.coop/about/), this is worth a read for anyone who is interested.
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### Author:  [@chris](https://members.webarchitects.coop/u/chris)
#### Post date: [27 May 2020 13:07 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131/3 "2020-05-27T13:07:06Z")
The project seems to be taking off, it now has [a wiki](https://wiki.meet.coop/) and it’s own Discourse forum that we are hosting:
> **[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://members.webarchitects.coop/u/chris)
#### Post date: [28 May 2020 16:17 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131/4 "2020-05-28T16:17:46Z")
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 🙂
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### Author:  [@chris](https://members.webarchitects.coop/u/chris)
#### Post date: [3 June 2020 19:49 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131/5 "2020-06-03T19:49:39Z")
Last night I deployed an open BigBlueButton server for people to use to give BigBlueButton a try:
> **[BigBlueButton](https://demo.meet.coop/b)**
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> Greenlight is a simple front-end for your BigBlueButton open-source web conferencing server. You can create your own rooms to host sessions, or join others using a short and convenient link.
Free free to create an account there and have a play with it.
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### Author:  [@IT-norwich](https://members.webarchitects.coop/u/IT-norwich)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 08:25 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131/6 "2020-06-04T08:25:17Z")
I created an account late last night and had a play around - worked first time even on my iPad. This morning I also checked it out on my PC (Firefox) and it checks our fine. I would like to see if we or our customers can make use of it, so it’s thumbs up from us.
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### Author:  [@chris](https://members.webarchitects.coop/u/chris)
#### Post date: [4 June 2020 10:14 UTC](https://members.webarchitects.coop/t/the-online-meeting-co-operative/131/7 "2020-06-04T10:14:46Z")
Thanks for the feedback! The [demo.meet.coop](https://demo.meet.coop/) server is a lot lower specification than the one that will be going live next week for Open 2020.
> **[OPEN 2020 - Reinvented: Networked commons initiatives - The Open Co-op](https://open.coop/2020/04/02/open-2020-reinvented-networked-commons-initiatives/)**
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> OPEN 2020 is a collaborative online event for anyone that is interested in creating a world which places people and planet before profit. Recognising that there are hundreds of thousands of groups and communities working on this general objective…...