Engage is a self-hosted webapp enabling collaborative presentations via live audience feedback and voting.

Credit where credit is due: Thanks to Glyphish.com for fantastic icons, Google Fonts, HTML5 Boilerplate

INITIAL USE: Staff retreat, no internet access, Engage served up from a laptop on a wireless network... all staff had laptops. The goal was to have a way for a presenter/moderator to pose discussion questions and/or polls on screen to a known/trusted audience w/ laptops. The presenter could then guide discussion based on the live feedback. There was no need for authentication/authorization. Every comment submitted was entered into the database and added to the stream of comments visible to the attendees.

WHAT WORKS NOW:

• Create Topic (messages/comments are associated with a topic)
• Create Poll (answers can be custom strings, but limited to 3, and not multiple choice)

FUTURE:

• Convert from straight CSS to LESS.js?
• There should probably be some authentication/authorization added down the road so that Topic and Poll creation can be restricted to a moderator or assistant.
• Threaded comments / replies in the stream
• Allow flexible number of poll answers
• Allow multiple choice for poll answers
• Mobile-friendly interface (target full compat. w/ Android and iOS devices) ...