[liberationtech] rtc chat

[Timur Mehrvarz]

Hi,

here is another open source WebRTC chat service: rtc chat

- It offers text chat and file transfer. But no audio/video.

- Comes with it's own STUN service, so clients do not have to (and will
not) touch 3rd party machines. No external ICE/TURN service is needed.

- Communication link choices: P2P or relayed. P2P is standard WebRTC.
Relayed WebRTC exists not only as a fall back, but can be switched to
deliberately, in case users want to hide their IP addresses from each
other. Relayed mode is the default. P2P will be used, if both clients
opt-in.

- Two methods exist to establish WebRTC links: (1) Clients will be
matched based on an agreed upon secret word. (2) Optional callee service
allows users to await incoming calls and/or to call others directly.

- Very small memory footprint (server written in Go). Server can, for
example, be run on a Galaxy Nexus phone (Ubuntu phablet) in about 7 MB
of RAM.

It was my desire to enable stock browsers (FF22+), so you are not
limited to run this service only on your own device(s). You can visit an
Internet café and make (and receive) rtc calls. Actually, both parties
can do so, when talking to each other. rtc chat should work fine in mesh
network environments also.

http://timur.mobi