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I decided to go see the WebRTC presentation which prior to the presentation I had no idea what it was. My friend used it for his class and he encouraged me to go see the presentation with him. So once I got there things started out differently than what I expected. I attend the presentation expecting to see Fred Dixon giving talking about webRTC in person, instead he remotely giving a presentation using WebRTC which stood out from all the other presentations I have seen. Chad was acting as a proxy for Fred controlling the BigBlueButton which I thought was interesting way of showing a real life use for WebRTC. Fred Dixon started off the presentation with introducing himself then he talked about possible cases where people can use WebRTC such as one to one, small group collaboration or one to many such as a virtual classroom environment with one teacher and many students. He went through the features such as desktop sharing audio, video chat, slides and pointed out that this was designed for teaching. At first I was wondering how different it was from Skype and various other applications, but as he was going through the features, I started to see how different this was compared to Skype making it a desirable teaching software which also happens to be open source. One in particular that stood out was the ability to display and control slides and drawing tool. He showed the award they were given by the Office of Science and Technology Policy and, then went through how WebRTC could be setup. The software can be setup by anyone for free on their own server. He also mentioned the ideal number of people to host for is 25 to avoid any issues with the hardware used as their server. Then he explained how the front end was using flash because of the great compatibility support with webcams. Then he explained the whole session can be recorded using two external open source projects such as Red5 for video and FreeSwitch for Audio. He also said how the audio compression and video codecs used in WebRTC makes it a effective way to interact with anyone in the world with low bandwidth which I thought was interesting. Then he went through the development process and future goals of what they are implementing in the future. For the future they are working on implementing HTML5 as well as support for flash and mobile support. This presentation made me excited to see the features implemented, and interested in developing some of those features. Since the entire project is open source I believe there is a lot of room for this project to grow with vast amount of features that can be implemented onto WebRTC.

==Conclusion==