Big Blue Button: an open-source software for class-oriented video-conferencing

Tired of having to wake up every morning, jump out of your bed and breakfast your way to school or university? And arrive just in time to:

• realize that your teacher forgot to get out of bed this morning, or...
• attend a 3-hour hypnotising conference where the orator is the only one to speak and barely does anything but read his slides out loud

Within a few years, we might not have to suffer this painful old grind everyday, because school will have moved... right home!

Online massive video-conferencing is a first step towards this direction and will probably gain much popularity in a few years. Personally, the prospects that this technology may offer truly fill me with enthusiasm and excitement!

However the most pessimistic people will tell you that the technology behind this feat isn't mature yet. Here's one little piece of software to show you they are shamefully wrong!

Big Blue Button (developed by Mozilla Foundation, the foundation that develops Mozilla Firefox) might bring a smart solution to this problem by allowing us to do video-conferencing... straight in our web browser.

Check out this (cool) video that shows the software's capabilities, and give me feedback in the comments section!