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Mconf-Web is the social network in the Mconf webconferencing system. It is developed using Ruby on Rails and is a fork of the VCC project (https://github.com/ging/vcc). If you want more information about this project, please visit http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/prav/gtmconf (Portuguese and English).

If you like this project and want to give us some feedback, please contact [email protected] :)

If you have a suggestion or discovered a bug, please create an issue.

Also if you want to collaborate with this project, send us a patch and we would be glad to receive and merge it.

About the developers

Mconf-Web is part of the project Mconf: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/prav/gtmconf

• Leonardo Daronco ([email protected])
• Felipe Cecagno ([email protected])
• Alessandra Leonhardt ([email protected])

Mconf-Web uses

Technologies and systems used in this project.

VCC (Virtual Conference Centre)

VCC (now know as Global Plaza) is a project developed in Ruby on Rails to provide a virtual event service for the Internet. It uses the Isabel system to provide webconferencing.

You can find the Global Plaza project running at: http://www.globalplaza.org/

Mconf-Web is actually a fork of VCC. It's source code can be found at https://github.com/ging/vcc

Big Blue Button

Big Blue Button (BBB) is the webconferencing system used by Mconf-Web. BBB is developed in Java and Flash, and is one of the best open source webconferencing softwares (if not the best) today. You can find it at: http://www.bigbluebutton.org/

As VCC uses Isabel, Mconf-Web uses BBB.

Other libraries

• bigbluebutton-api-ruby: A library to access the BigBlueButton API in Ruby applications. Developed to be used in Mconf-Web. At https://github.com/mconf/bigbluebutton-api-ruby

How-to start

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