On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:07:51PM -0400, Nick Mathew wrote: > DimDim hasn't released any updates to their open-source product for 2 years. > > Its supposed to be on version 5.5 ( > http://onlinehelp.dimdim.com/getstarted/Whats-New.html), but their > sourceforge site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dimdim/files/) only has > downloads for the 4.5 version. > > An alternative would be to use something like BigBlueButton - > http://bigbluebutton.org/. Its open-source, probably has all the features > required. I haven't used it personally, but it does look like a nice > product. One advantage of Dimdim is that it is user friendly. > > Flash seems to be the way to go for the time being. (At least till the other > options mature). Yes, this is what happens when real desires meet real reality. We had a first multimedia experience for opensource.com, it had to use the technology at hand. It had to be usable by the team assembled to do the work, and readable (audio, video) by the audience we are most interested in reaching. We can set a plan for getting to a FOSS solution, but some of it may not yet be ready for use *here*. (Which is to say, there are solutions that are 100% FOSS but perhaps not feature matching for the specific set of requirements of opensource.com.) This is a common problem -- open source conferences having non-libre pieces in their production and delivery stack. We can throw in with them seeking solutions. Part of that is building a need for a solution *here*. I'd rather us get up more Open Your World-type forums with solutions moving toward "best in open source end-to-end". Being that our audience includes those still understanding the open source way, this is a chance for us to teach as we improve. (Believe me, I'd much rather just open up a can o' resources to solve this before we need to broadcast next, but I'm more afraid of stopping momentum *if* we can maintain momentum with the right ethics and authenticity.) Chris - let's use this thread to spell out the exact parameters we need in a solution. I'd like to turn that in to a short article on OSDC that can be a node for further discussion with the wider world on how to get a useable 100% FOSS from end-to-end multimedia solution for the use cases we have. (And maybe we'll find out we have it already and just need to e.g. hire Fluendo to implement. Thus we'll learn what size can o' resources to open.) - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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