Installation of OpenMeetings under IBM DB2

There are some official documentation about installation of OpenMeetings under IBM DB2 available now:

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/Configuration_IBM_DB2

OpenMeetings 1.8.2 released

Changes in Version 1.8.2:

• Improves language handling: The default language is bound now to the user-profile, not to the server settings!
• Fix some issue in creating conferences via the integrated calendar
• Fixes issues when drag and droping a video from the file-explorer to the whiteboard 
• Update Chinese Simplified

Download:
http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/files/openmeetings_1_8_2_r4283.zip

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

Case Study at OSOR, Open Source in Finland and Sweden including OpenMeetings and Moodle

There is an interesting story about using Moodle and OpenMeetings in OSOR published:

http://www.osor.eu/studies/finland-and-sweden-collaborate-using-oss

Article on running OpenMeetings/Red5 in Windows Azure

There is an interesting article about how to deploy any Tomcat Application to Windows Azure:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cesardelatorre/archive/2010/09/12/developing-and-deploying-java-tomcat-apps-into-windows-azure.aspx

OpenMeetings Drupal Integration, new Module Demo Video

There is a new Demo-Video available for Drupal Integration of OpenMeetings.

Possible Features

• Embed Links to conference rooms into Drupal articles
• Single Sing on using your Drupal login
• List recordings in Drupal
• Embed recording links in articles  

Where to get the Drupal Module

Contact: service@openmeetings.de
Website: http://www.openmeetings.de

New Website and OpenMeetings 1.7 released

The Team at OpenMeetings announced Version 1.7 and the new official website of OpenMeetings at http://www.openmeetings.de
http://www.openmeetings.de will be the general landing zone for people to get started with OpenMeetings.
The Demo Servers are now located at http://demo.openmeetings.de
Besides that there are some new features in Version 1.7:

• Multi-Whiteboard, you can add new whiteboard instances, each whiteboard can have the full range of tools and documents inside.
• Advanced File-Explorer, Drag and Drop Interface for managing files, including possibility to create a document tree with folders.
• Private and Public Drive in File-Explorer. The File-Explorer has two different views, one is the Private Drive and the other the Public Drive. The Private Drive always contains the same files. Those files are only visible to the user currently loggedin. The Public Drive is bound not to the user, but to the conference room. All users in the conference room have access to the Public Drive.
• Save whiteboards. You can save each whiteboard instance as a file. The file is located in the File-Explorer and can be drag and drop’ed and organized like any other document, image or folder.
• New User-Level: SOAP/Web-Service only. For security reasons there is a new user-level. You can now create user-accounts that have only the ability to access via SOAP. In former versions you always need an admin account.
• MyRooms section. Each user has now by default 2 personal rooms that are always accessible exclusive for that user. There are buttons to enter those rooms from the dashboard
• VoIP-Integration. Together with our Finish partner and the Open Source Department of Kvarken region we have done a VoIP integration by using an applet for the audio part. For further information see VoIPAndSIP

You can download the latest version at:
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/downloads/list

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.