BigBlueButton – Open Source Video Conferencing

Promising Video conferencing tool that I stumbled across this weekend.  It looks perfect for creating an online classroom, a small play ground for a dispersed development team, or pretty much anything else you can think of for this type of application. I tested it a bit with four people, and it ran really quite smoothly. The three roles are viewer, presenter, and moderator.

Viewer: are users who have no authority within the conference; their primary role is to view the presentation as well as chat amongst other participants. In a course the viewer would be the students.

Presenter: has all the same capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop

Moderator: has all the capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop.

And the beauty of it all being that is open source and free.

VIA