szwork2013 / many-slides

Web Presentation Application for creating and sharing presentations from within the Browser

#Many Slides

Notice

Project on hold until further notice. Next discussion on the future and road ahead planned for end of Novermber - start of December 2014.

###General Many Slides is a web presentation application for creating and sharing presentations from within your web-browser!

This is an ongoing student research project, which will probably be reaching a somewhat stable state around June 2014.

The main focus is to create a lightweight application which also enabled users to share their presentations with people all around the world, while minimizing the traffic needed to transfer the presentations over the internet to a bare minimum.

Each presentation is build using a single JavaScript object, which is used to render the presentation in real time, leveraging modern browser technologies and auxiliary frameworks and libraries, such as e.g. AngularJS and PeerJS.

Using this approach there is no need to establish a video stream, which would otherwise consume enormous amounts of bandwidth. Instead a peer-to-peer network consisting of the host and the viewers is established. Every peer joining the network receives a copy of the presentations JavaScript object representation from the other peers. During the presentation only the information needed to update the rendered view for all the peers are sent around, e.g. the current slide identifier.

The accompanying audio stream will (probably) be realised using WebRTC (wrapped by PeerJS or other library/framework).

###Modes There are three modes in this application:

####1. Editor Mode Here you are able to create your presentations.

####2. Presentation Mode Here you are able to send invites for your presentations as well as hold your presentations.

####3. Theater Mode Here you can watch and listen to presentations you have got invites to in real time. There is also a chat available for all written communication needs.

##List of external sources AngularJS - Home - GitHub
PeerJS - Home - GitHub
UnderscoreJS - Home - GitHub
angular-bootstrap-colorpicker - GitHub

##Version information We use the following version scheme:
A version is formatted as <major>.<minor>.<build>.<revision>.
<major>
Defines a major new release. We will be using '0' for the alpha/beta state.
<minor>
Defines a minor new release. We will be using this when (big) new features are added.
<build>
Defines a small- and/or bug release. You will see this increasing mostly.
<revision>
This is an internal number, you can safely ignore this.

##Notes 09.03.2014 - Not using ng-include directive for html templates/fragments/partials, since doing so results in unexpected behaviour.
(When including the editor-menubar, fonts are not loaded before the text is hovered over or a console opened.)

09.03.2014 - Evaluation of Couch DB vs. Mongo DB is still to be had

09.03.2014 - We should add comparison of expected bandwidth savings of our approach vs. video stream.

09.03.2014 - Could have a look at GoInstant GoInstant GitHub

09.03.2014 - Definetely should have a look at these bad boys Angular Bootstrap Directives