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Goals and Objectives
The goal of the Blindside Project is to be the leader in open source webcasting and conferencing system. The project will integrate several open source software into a stack that allows users to collaborate in real-time.
The project benefits from other open source projects to deliver features such as voice (Asterisk), video (Red5), document conversion (OpenOffice), and many more.
Features
Implemented:
| voice conferencing | video conferencing | group chat |
| private chat | manage participants | slide presentation |
Planned:
| file transfer | application/desktop sharing | scheduling |
| whiteboard | recording and archiving |
Screenshots and Screencasts
Here are a couple of screencasts that gives a tour of Blindside:
- Quick tour of Blindside.
- Detailed tour of Blindside.
Demo
Requirements
Client:
| Flash Player 9 | Microphone, Speakers, Camera |
Server:
| Asterisk | Red5 | ActiveMQ |
| OpenOffice | SWF Tools | Tomcat |
| pdftk |
Source: http://blindside.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Downloads: coming soon
Mailing List
blindside-users AT googlegroups DOT com
Other Web Conferencing Projects
Below is a list of other webcasting/conferencing projects that we know of:
Please inform us if you know of others.