# BigBlueButton — developer ecosystem report

> BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for online learning.

- GitHub org: `bigbluebutton`
- Category: platform
- Overall score: 37.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #543
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-13

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 48.0 | #502 | ~22% |
| Education | 62.0 | #506 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 9.0 | #879 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 43.0 | #291 | ~16% |
| Reach | 19.0 | #896 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 39.0 | #352 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/bigbluebutton
- Website: https://bigbluebutton.org
- Docs: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 11,813 |
| Forks | 11,579 |
| Open issues | 1,575 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [bigbluebutton](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton) | 9,186 | JavaScript | A complete web conferencing system for virtual classes and more! |
| [greenlight](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight) | 848 | Ruby | A really simple end-user interface for your BigBlueButton server. |
| [bbb-install](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install) | 658 | Shell | BASH script to install BigBlueButton in 30 minutes. |
| [docker](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/docker) | 433 | Shell | Docker files for BigBlueButton (community maintained) |
| [bigbluebutton-api-php](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-api-php) | 192 | PHP | Offical @BigBlueButton PHP API |
| [bbb-webrtc-sfu](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-webrtc-sfu) | 53 | JavaScript | Control server for WebRTC SFU |
| [bbb-playback](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-playback) | 30 | JavaScript | — |
| [bigbluebutton.github.io](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton.github.io) | 26 | CSS | (retired) BigBlueButton Documentation |
| [bbb-events](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-events) | 26 | Ruby | A ruby gem for extracting data from a BigBlueButton recording's events.xml file. |
| [docker-dev](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/docker-dev) | 24 | Shell | How to use Docker to setup a development environment for BigBlueButton |
| [bbb-air-client](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-air-client) | 24 | ActionScript | — |
| [deepspeech-web](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/deepspeech-web) | 18 | Ruby | Rails app providing API to send audio for captioning using DeepSpeech |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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