# Cool! Discourse has a BBB plugin
**URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/cool-discourse-has-a-bbb-plugin/142
**Category:** Feature thoughts
**Tags:** tech, time-deliberating, platform-space
**Created:** [22 June 2020 15:45 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/cool-discourse-has-a-bbb-plugin/142 "2020-06-22T15:45:14Z")
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### Author:  [@robert.best](https://forum.meet.coop/u/robert.best)
#### Post date: [22 June 2020 15:45 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/cool-discourse-has-a-bbb-plugin/142/1 "2020-06-22T15:45:14Z")
Maybe we want to use it?
> **[BigBlueButton video conference](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigbluebutton-video-conference/148050)**
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> https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbb This plugin integrates a Discourse instance with BigBlueButton, an open source video conferencing tool designed for online learning. You will need to have a server running an instance of BBB to use this,...
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### Author:  [@chris](https://forum.meet.coop/u/chris)
#### Post date: [23 June 2020 15:36 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/cool-discourse-has-a-bbb-plugin/142/2 "2020-06-23T15:36:23Z")
We should have a play with it and also the Nextcloud plugin and it would be nice to provide a demo of all the plugins for potential clients to use _however_ we can only provide this as a service to clients who have _dedicated_ BigBlueButton servers because there is one API secret per server and this allows access to all the meetings on a server and we can’t let clients have this to add into plugins in their Discourse / Nextcloud / WordPress / Drupal / Moodle instances for privacy and security reasons.
So to scale something like this — having a dedicated physical BBB server per client — we would ideally be looking at buying systems such as this [8 servers in a 3U enclosure](https://www.broadberry.co.uk/xeon-e5v3-rackmount-servers/cyberserve-5038mr-h8trf), based on the [requirements for BBB](https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html#minimum-server-requirements) it would work out at about £2k per server for the hardware cost alone (4 core 2.6Ghz CPUs and 16GB of RAM per server, bump this up to a spec that would be more sensible for a long term investment, 6 core 3.2Ghz CPUs and 32GB of RAM per node and it is more like £3.5k per server, £27k in total):
Of course second hand servers could be used but these take up a lot more space (1U each probably) plus they would use a lot more power…