Open source project for web conference

Other day I was downloading a later version of Firefox and I stept in this nice open source project Big Blue Button. It allows the users to do web conference, offering to teachers and students a virtual class room.

It has features like uploading a presentation that will be shared by the users, chatting, audio and video sharing and it also allow you to record the class to a later view. Preatty cool! From the tecnical point of view the server is based in Red5, a media server written in Java.

If you are curious about it, visit the presentations:

• As presenter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9UxcsCn8EjY
• As viewer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9UxcsCn8EjY
• How to install: http://www.bigbluebutton.org/videos/#developer_videos
• Architecture: http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/ArchitectureOverview

Take a look it is a preaty cool project!

Finish the post with one of the classics – Breaking the law from Judas Priest.