Today I have some spent some time testing a passionately homegrown open-source web conferencing and live presentation system available right now online.

The brainchild of John McCaughey (of whom I publish a genuine audio recording as he first guides me to explore his baby - available at the end of this article), this is a humble, hype-less system with the foundations to provide a good basic solution to all those organizations and institutions yet unable to afford a full-fledged, commercial solution.

This cross-platform and fully open-source server-based web conferencing system integrates text chat, VoIP (one-to-many), PowerPoint presentation facility, live annotation and markup tools, application sharing, polling and recording in a secure environment.

Here the details: