August / September status

[John Roy]

Time for a brief update on project activity.

Completed

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Released version 2.37.230 on production with the following changes:

- WebRTC peer-to-peer conferences are enabled as summarized here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/babelroom/MD7HIIZBhPI/a_D4TYl6NU4J

(note that since WebRTC support has been released the test page is now located at https://bblr.co/webrtc)

 

- Several small bug fixes

- Version # in bottom right-hand corner

API documentation (and live testbed on apiary.io): http://docs.babelroom.apiary.io/ - apiary.io is a pretty neat tool, check it out!

Continued to add online documentation: https://code.google.com/p/babelroom/wiki/FAQ

Activity

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I want to briefly share some of the behind-the-scenes stuff presently going on as several people have inquired about a perceived lack of activity.

Mobile

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To date and thru our launch we've focused on server and desktop deployments for BabelRoom. The plan was to build the core software without expending effort on mobile-only investment. 

So we've supported mobile platform by (1) having a pure html5 UI for support on all devices and (2) providing SIP based access using any third-party SIP app, see: https://code.google.com/p/babelroom/wiki/FAQ#SIP_(VoIP)

The last 2 months we've been very active exploring various options to support different use cases on mobile via mobile apps. 

It's clear that tablet platforms will be the primary device (at least for participants) -- there are many interesting problems to solve in this space including networking related challenges.

Commercial

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We were pleased that our little project has met with a modest degree of commercial interest. Although BabelRoom is an OS project we also have bills to pay so interest is always good and at the very least translates to software engineering consulting opportunities in technologies we've established a competence in. 

This interest means we have a little less time for short-term development, however we feel the ideas and feedback we are collecting will help us set the best direction for BabelRoom.

Thanks a lot

-J