All about WebRTC with Chris Wilson, Ben Strong, and Dan Ristic

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/d/6/a/600_284256202.jpeg October is WebRTC month at SFHTML5! We will kick it off with an evening event with three talks. Expert speakers Chris Wilson, Ben Strong, and Dan Ristic will be on hand to give you an overview, show you how to use WebRTC in your web apps, and give you an opportunity to ask your questions. A follow-up hands-on weekend workshop is also planned. Refer to the Meetup event page (https://www.meetup.com/sfhtml5/events/139666482/) for more details.

Talk #1: "Introduction to WebRTC Apps" with Chris Wilson

WebRTC implements open standards for peer-to-peer communication of audio, video and data. WebRTC APIs have been implemented across Chrome and Firefox on mobile and desktop, meaning there are now over one billion end points.

This session explains how to get started on building a WebRTC app:

• Using getUserMedia() to get access to user-generated video and audio

• Integrating WebRTC with Canvas, WebGL and Web Audio

• What is signaling and why do I need it?

• Getting to grips with RTCPeerConnection for audio and video communication

• Using RTCDataChannel for peer-to-peer data communication for file sharing, gaming and more

• The easy way: apps, platforms, libraries, and abstraction layers

• Security and privacy

About the Speaker

Chris Wilson is an Open Web Platform Developer Advocate working on Chrome. He began working on web browsers in 1993 when he co-authored the original Windows version of NCSA Mosaic, went on to Microsoft to work on Internet Explorer for fifteen years, and joined Google in 2010. He has a particular interest in enabling awesome user experiences on the web platform, and is a long-time participant in various web standards working groups. In his free time, he enjoys photography and hiking with his wife and daughters, and scuba diving in the tropics as well as the chilly waters of Puget Sound as a PADI Assistant Instructor. You can keep up with Chris on Twitter (http://twitter.com/cwilso) and Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/cwilso).

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Talk 2: "A Practical Guide to Building WebRTC Apps" with Ben Strong

Transforming the promise of WebRTC into a reliable solution takes more than writing a few lines of javascript. This session dives into a range of considerations you’ll need to address. What does the browser provide - and not provide? (Spoiler alert: things left to the web developer to figure out include signaling between peers, session management, UI controls, TURN, STUN, and more.) We’ll also cover the design choices required as well as common client- and server-side components you’ll need to build. And no practical guide to WebRTC apps would be complete without addressing the hottest topic in WebRTC adoption: mobile.

About the Speaker

Ben Strong is CEO of vLine, a leading provider of WebRTC tools and infrastructure. He's a die-hard WebRTC fanatic who has been been building WebRTC apps since Google's first code drop over two years ago, and he has the scars to show it.

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Talk #3: "WebRTC Data Channels" with Dan Ristic

The data channel is a powerful addition to the real-time capabilities of transferring data packets around the web. In this session Dan will cover the basics of how to setup and use the data channel. He will also cover the best use cases for the data channel and also the pitfalls you will encounter along the way.

About the Speaker

Dan Ristic is a Developer Evangelist at PubNub, a leading provider of real-time networking technologies. He is passionate about front-end engineering and tries to push the web to its limits.

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Schedule

5:30p Doors Open. Please bring a valid ID that matches your Meetup ID.
6:00p Mingle and enjoy refreshments
6:25p Welcome notes and Introduction
6:30p Talk #1 (Chris Wilson)
7:00p Break and lightning talks*
7:15p Talk #2 (Ben Strong)
7:45p Break and lightning talks*
8:15p Talk #3 (Dan Ristic)
8:45p Prize Giveaways**

• If you are interested in doing a lightning talk, send the organizers your proposal.

** You must be at the venue to qualify for prizes.

This event will be recorded. We will post the recording as soon as it is available, typically within a week after the event. Follow @sfhtml5 (https://twitter.com/sfhtml5) or visit this page for the announcement.

Important Note: For those of you who have attended previous meetups at Yelp's HQ, please note that they have moved to 140 New Montgomery Street, as indicated at the top of this event post.