Comments on: The Dimdim opportunity

Dimdim isn't cool because it's open-source Web conferencing. It's cool because of what it enables tech providers to do that price and proprietary licensing precluded.

[ddganguly]

Matt,

Thanks for your post. As you say in your post, open source has great alignment with onsite installations and some of our early adopters are service providers and they are indeed
using Dimdim onsite.

Also, as you wrote "What we do need are such platforms that can be expanded and integrated into other solutions." Dimdim's integration with open source products such as Moodle, Sugar, Docebo, etc is creating the real-time web just as the Apache webserver created the non-realtime web.

It's this idea of building the real-time web that inspires us at Dimdim.

Warm regards,
ddg
CEO - Dimdim

[Marcel_Ramaker]

Matt and DD,

DimDim has been introduced to me by someone who is deeply involved in the landscape of Enterprise Social Networking Software (it looks promising).
As an external consultant I was asked to help their partners and customers to easy the adaptation process being waved-in into the business processes, so optimum performance of collaboration can be reached.

While doing this, so many things have come to my attention. One of them is that customers are demanding an fully integrated 'Collaboration' environment without the hassle of any client issue's (not to have any software installed on workstations). When forming an dispersed team into a 'collocated virtual team' it's essential to be able to start web-conference from within the 'Social Networking Software'. So in that respect I agree with Matt's comment that it should integrate with other 'Open Source' initiatives, not only limited to Sugar.

Next to that, and I do not have tested the in-house version (only the hosted one), and only if the comment's are true, it's not in the real spirit of open-source to limit the number of conferences and attendees in the community versions.

Regards,
Marcel.

PS: DD; I'm sorry I could not find your real First name.

[PACSferret]

hey Matt... You've said Alfresco uses Acrobat Connect. have you had a chance to compare with Dimdim?

[bushibot]

Man dose cnet do research directly anymore...? I tried out the Dim Dim open source let just say that is totally crippled. There is nothing about that on the main pages that I could find but looking through the forums shows that many MANY people are butting up against arbitrary restrictions (no more then 2 hours, only one room function at time etc). If your going to release open source release open source, if you going to release a crippled demo call a space a spade...

[bushibot]

Man dose cnet do research directly anymore...? I tried out the Dim Dim open source let just say that is totally crippled. There is nothing about that on the main pages that I could find but looking through the forums shows that many MANY people are butting up against arbitrary restrictions (no more then 2 hours, only one room function at time etc). If your going to release open source release open source, if you going to release a crippled demo call a space a spade...

[technoguide]

Thanks for the post. We will post a new open source version soon to remove some of these restrictions (it was hard to predict just how scalable we could make Dimdim before open beta testing but we now have the data we need). And for those who don?t want or can?t host the Dimdim server themselves, our Free version lets you have meetings of up to 20 people at a time using our hosting providers.

[technoguide]

Bushibot,

Please check out our new Dimdim Open Source Community Edition v 3.5 (or Dimdim "Eagle" for short) It removes all these restrictions, adds some compelling new features (like 2 way video chat) and now comes in a handy, single VMWare image you can download and get running fast! We're serious about open source and we're passionate about our mission to allow the world to meet freely.

Enjoy! - Steve at Dimdim
http://www.dimdim.com

[spreed-com]

Check out spreed too! spreed is free to use and has exciting features such as telephone conferencing, Click-to-Meet and Phone-to-Phone connect services.
http://www.spreed.com

[Josh_Show_Document]

I want to suggest you try http://www.showdocument.com - its an alternative tool for dimdim that allows document sharing and web meeting in real-time. all the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc. It is free and requires no installation.

Josh