WebRTC Conference Atlanta
This past week was the WebRTC Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Vendors, customers, and people interested in learning about WebRTC gathered for three days of presentations, discussion, interviews, and demos (day one and day two). On the last day of the conference, judges handed out awards in several categories.
Some of the attendees wrote up summaries of the expo from their perspectives. Chris Koehncke, Director of Business Development at Genband, is convinced that WebRTC is not just another “feature”:
WebRTC is a difficult concept for the average programmer to wrap their head around and we, as the industry pundits, need to work to work on this. It’s not time to sell, it’s time to educate.
Tsahi Levent-Levi, one of the moderators for the WebRTC panel called “The Hype Cycle”, wrote about his thoughts on the conference and came to the conclusion that WebRTC is ready because
There were real products with real end customers using it already, which to me is a validation of the need
WebKit
The WebKit development mailing list had a post from Danilo Cesar, Software Engineer at Collabora, where he mentioned that
A few colleagues and I are working on the getUserMedia/PeerConnection API for the Gtk port.
KDE Core Developer and Senior Software Developer at Digia, Allan Jensen, replied later in the thread with
I know of a company working on WebRTC for QtWebKit. They want to upstream it, but I do not know the current status or timeline.