Dimdim: Free and open source web meeting
Markus Thielmann — Thu, 2008-09-04
I think it would be fair to call Dimdim a WebEx "mee-too" application.
Dimdom offers a web- and Flash-based meeting application which allows you to communicate (via video, audio or text) and to collaborate through whiteboards. You're able to share a presentation or even you whole desktop (at least if you're still on Mac or Windows).
The most outstanding feature however is the released source-code. Not only open, but also free as in speech, distributed under the terms of the GPL.
Even if you're not interested in deploying your own server, you might want to trade any other web meeting portal for dimdim. Unfortunately, sharing your Desktop with Linux is not possible right now, but at least it's on the roadmap.
While I consider the release of the source code a really smart move of Dimdim Inc., I wonder why they don't offer paid support for the open-source edition. There are a lot of companies who prefer FOSS, but still able and willing to pay for their software through support contracts.
Hi Markus, Have you tried
Andrew Donnelly (not verified) — Fri, 2008-09-05Hi Markus,
Have you tried Mikogo for free desktop sharing and online meetings? http://www.mikogo.com
Mikogo only takes a moment to start, and then you can share any screen content with your meeting participants. This includes websites, PDFs, word documents, or any application. Mikogo has many great features including switch presenters, remote keyboard and mouse control, file transfer, 256bit AES encryption, Skype Extra and more.
Application selection in Mikogo is great as it allows you to choose certain applications for sharing while hiding the others from the view of the meeting participants.
Check out our website and see how Mikogo goes for you. If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
All the best,
Andrew
The Mikogo Team
Sorry, I prefer free and open
Markus Thielmann — Fri, 2008-09-05Sorry, I prefer free and open source software.
Please correct me if I am
Niels Mache (not verified) — Tue, 2008-09-30Please correct me if I am wrong, but does dimdim change their licensing from "Free Speech" (Open Source) to "Free as Beer"? We were unable get current source code. What is your experience with what dimdim call “Open Source”?
When talking about free Web Conferencing Services, there are other Free Web Conferencing Services on the market. The spreed (http://www.spreed.com) web conferencing service for instance offers free unified conferencing which includes worldwide telephone conferencing. It’s free web conferencing service is available since quite a while (December 2004). Since then spreed is actively used by a rapidly growing customer base. With its US-based operations spreed offers a Free Web and Telephone Conferencing Services for users located in the US. You may check it out on http://spreed.com (click on the US flag and create an free account) or access directly on http://us.spreed.com
Niels Mache
CEO struktur / spreed
According to dimdim
Markus Thielmann — Tue, 2008-09-30According to dimdim officials, 4.5 will be released within the next 5 weeks. That's fine with me, as long as there's an open source alternative, I won't start using closed source services.
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