announce BigBlueButton

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+  <newsitem author="merenber" date="2021-03-07">
+    <p>
+      CSC now hosts its own instance of
+      BigBlueButton at <a href="https://bbb.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">https://bbb.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>,
+      freely available for all members.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a href="https://bigbluebutton.org">BigBlueButton</a> is a free and open source
+      video conferencing platform. It runs directly in the browser, and includes
+      many useful features such as multi-user whiteboards, embedded videos, and
+      interactive polls.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To get the most out of BBB, there are some tutorial videos you can
+      watch <a href="https://bigbluebutton.org/html5">here</a>.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      If you have any questions or concerns, please email syscom.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Happy video calling!
+    </p>
+  </newsitem>
   <newsitem author="n3parikh" date="2021-03-01">
     <p>
       Join Computer Science Club for Alt-Tab, a lightning tech talk series presented by students. Alt-Tab consists of 10 to 15-minute talks about anything related to tech. They can be about cool new features, a fun project you made or really anything that you are excited about! We will be hosting it virtually this term late March.