It would be nice to evaluate new service providers for BigBlueButton/Moodle for WMIT.
Reasons:
- T388559: BigBlueButton Wikimedia Italia - Certificate SSL expired
- This task highlighted that our BBB instance is not expected to receive a stable LTS version updates anytime soon, to avoid visible disservices.
- Also, it's clear that the next task will not be implemented anytime soon (T285379)
- T285379: Serve BigBlueButton from https://meeting.wikimedia.it/ instead of our weird current URL
- This will not be implemented anytime soon.
- ...
Let's collect some economical quotes.
Premising that this different service provider is already in use by WMIT since years (P.S. and I was not involved in this decision), and may already cover our needs and may cover data migration:
https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Categoria:Fornitore_c68
Additional quote from Nano Hosting (also another new software suppplier for WMIT) (P.S. and I was also not involved in this decision; I've not conflict of interests):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285379#10631855
More quotes:
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Comparison Table
https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/BigBlueButton/Fornitore_2022_per_bbb.wikimedia.it