Watch the demo video of the new features in version 1.6

• You can login using your Facebook account now
• Private message center, send users messages, organize them in folders, you can book conference rooms by sending private messages, the booked event is automatically in your and the participants calendar, changes to that event will be populated to all users booked to the event.
• User contacts, you can search users, add them to your contacts
• Share your calendar with your contacts
• Add offerings and interest to your profile to find people with similar interest
• Reworked Full-fit functionality, Full-fit does rescale the document on the screen to be 100% visible on all screens, no matter what screen resolution you got. So the zoom might be 60% on one pc and 79% on a participant with different screen resolution
• Objects drawn on the whiteboard do now zoom according to the document and the zoom itself can be now between 0 and 200% of the actual pixel size
• Encrpyted PDFs do work now
• The backup does contain various fixes and includes the complete folder structure of the recordings + recordorded files, and all data that is generated by the new features private messages and user contacts
• Some new timezones and fixes for the release 1.5 regarding wrong time zones in some mail notifications

OpenMeetings 1.5

Major new feature is timezone handling in the calendar.

• Timezone support in User Profile, Calendar and Invitations. Users can now organize Events with people from different timezones and the system will  keep track on handling the event time correctly 
• Re-Styling and fixing some layout aspects
• Quick-link button next to each user-name in dashboard user list and in every chat box to quickly guide people to a conference room
• small Bug fixes

Download
http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/files/openmeetings_1_5_rc1_r3393.zip

ChangeLog
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/ChangeLog

OpenMeetings Version 1.4

New Features

• Remote Desktop Control (RDC) in Screen Sharing and separated right for RDC in user list, Moderators are able by default to do RDC other users can apply for it using the right-buttons
• New separated right for allowing Screen Sharing and Recording
• Multi-Domain Support: Separated Admin interface for configuring multiple LDAP configurations with a single OpenMeetings Instance, in the Login Box you are able to choose different domains now, each domain represents a LDAP config (you can still use the internal DB all the time, the internal DB is always in the list)
• New Room features: Close and open conference rooms. Additionally with a redirect-URL in case the room is closed and SOAP Methods to remotely open and close room. Moderators can also close a room from inside the conference room (Menubar: Actions > Close room). Users which are already loggedin will then be redirected to the redirect URL
• Fix missing attributes in Backup file and add Meeting-Members
• New Language: Danish, thx to ALO, update Spanish thx to Jesmargo
• Various small Bugfixes

Download
http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/files/openmeetings_1_4_rc1_r3326.zip

ChangeLog
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/ChangeLog

See also this Youtube Channel with some more Videos and custom components
http://www.youtube.com/user/sebastwagner

OpenMeetings 1.3 RC1 Released

We are happy to announce Version 1.3 of Openmeetings and its new features:

• Drawings stay on slide when you turn the page of a document on the whiteboard
• Restricted Room Type further optimization for 100++ participants. We have done some Stress test with the University of Umeå from Sweden and Vasaa in Finland with about 120-130 participants in a Single Conference Room (Type Restricted). They went successfull. Thanks to the Team of http://www.openkvarken.fi again
• Quality Settings in Screen Sharing Clients, contributed by Giovanni Possemato / Bitflow (http://www.bitflow.it) + RTMP-Tunneling Version of ScreenSharer fixed
• New SOAP Calls to get User-Object List including Streamname to broadcast a Video Stream out of a Conference directly
• Screen Sharing/Recording is now a separated right, therefore new layout for User-List in all room-types
• Option in Room-Settings and Administration “Audio Only” so users can only do Voice Conference in those rooms
• Video Pod hidden (Conference-Roomtype) or minimized (Webinar/Restricted-Roomtype) if User selects only Audio as device to broadcast
• Activity-Icon highlights when user speaks, now also in User-List (Room-Type Conference) instead of Video-Pod
• System Backup and Import - You can export now completely Users + Rooms + Organizations + all associations + all uploaded Files into a single ZIP and re-import that ZIP in a freshly installed OpenMeetings (of course you need an OpenMeetings Version greater 1.3 to be able to import the ZIP again) see also UpdateOpenMeetings

Major Bug fixes:

• Invitations Password does not work
• Reminder Email not beeing send before scheduled Meetings (now send 15 minutes upfront no matter if ICAL or simple Mail)
• lots of small things

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/ChangeLog
Downloads:
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/downloads/list
The SugarCRM and Moodle Integration is fully upwards compatible.

OpenMeetings running on Amazon AWS EC2

we successfully installed OpenMeetings on Amazon EC2. It worked out of the box without any huzzle. I think this is good news to a lot of people that would like to scale OpenMeetings for their needs.

Amazon offers already a lot of instances to install as operating system. We have been using one of the over 200 Debian operating systems that have been available.

I think the only important thing is … Never press the reboot system button :) Cause as its a virtual machine all your data is gone!

You also need to check that you are installing OpenMeetings at a location where enough space is left.

OpenMeetings as Facebook Application

you can now use OpenMeeting within Facebook with the application:

Visit the Application at Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=369748959583

Or go directly and add it to your account: http://apps.facebook.com/openmeetings/

OpenMeetings Sugar Module 1.0 Integration - Demo Video

OpenMeetings Sugar Module 1.0 Integration - Demo Video

OpenMeetings 1.1 Key Features Mini Demo

OpenMeetings 1.1 Key Features Mini Demo

OpenMeetings Recording Feature

happy to announce that the Recording of Web-Conferencing Session's in OpenMeetings is ready.

You can test the Recording feature live at http://www.openmeetings.de

Features of the Recorder:

* Platform independent
* Download recorded file as FLV File (to watch offline, publish on your website or through Youtube)
* Private and Public Recordings via a Drag and Drop interface and Folders to organize Recordings
* Recording Timeline gives additional information when attendees are speaking
* Record hole screen + share screen at the the same time
* Seek in the Player to any point

Below is a sample screen from the Recording:

OpenMeetings Recording Sample Screen














And here is a FLV that I Recorded with OpenMeetings and uploaded to Youtube:

when will h.264 and video ever really work on OSX with Adobe Flash Player

A number of websites and TV stations provide their content as Live Stream these days. And it is getting more and more. As they don't want the user to install anything they often choose the Flash Platform to deliver the content. Unfortunately on Apple OSx it works but your CPU has 70-95%. That means after 5 minutes watching you can hear your CPU trying to cool down like hell. And if you have some kind of sensible data on your MacBook you start thinking how much a crash would cost you. So you better switch off. This High-CPU usage is even higher when it comes to h.264 content. With h.264 you can not watch more then 2 minutes. We would not like to talk about the Linux Plugin now ... for Users of that platform its almost impossible. They can be glad that their webcam and microphone is supported so that they can make some Conference Calls.

It is no new problem, it seems like the hardware acceleration that Adobe is proud of is only part of the Windows Platform Plugin, so that Non-Windows users can wait for a long time until they finally will receive Video On Demand in High Definition. Sorry guys but what Adobe delivers here is not more then a Proof-Of-Concept. I by myself am remind by that every day when I try to watch the Live-Cast of N-TV.de or CNN. I could be glad cause that way I hear more radio ... like the famous and commercial free radio soma.fm but I guess it would be better to choose radio because I like to and not because my device does not support Flash Video for more then 10 minutes.

I tried also updating to Flash Player 10.1, I hoped to get better results. I had not the impression that it really improves anything. After encountering that RTMPT-Connection does not work for the Flash Plugin on OSx I had to uninstall everything and install 10.0.xxx again. I don't feel like Experience Matters ^^.