Open Source users: Dimdim is listening.

One of the things that prides us here at Dimdim is being able to quickly respond to your needs.  We read and react to all your emails and we encourage you to voice your opinions.  Since our public launch a little more than 3 weeks ago, we heard that you really like Dimdim but that there were a few areas you wanted to see improved.  One of those areas is our Open Source Community Edition. You didn't like the fact that the current version is not on par with our Dimdim Free hosted version, you hated the 5 person limit and only one meeting at a time, many wanted more than one video stream, some of you didn't like the server software installers and a few even complained about our documentation. Well, I'm proud to say that your voices have been heard!  (and that we've been really busy...)

In the next week we will release a new version of the Dimdim Open Source Community Edition to SourceForge.net.  (UPDATE: our new Open Source release is now available) That version is on par with the features of our hosted offerings, removes the 5 attendee limit, enables multiple simultaneous meetings and even adds a 2-way video chat feature. We have also packaged the Dimdim Servers into a single VMWare Virtual Appliance to ease the installation process.  You'll also notice much improved documentation and a new admin console.

We hope you will spread the word to everyone that we're committed to the open source model and that our actions here speak louder than words.  We're seeing some really innovative uses of our product and we really want to see more.  We simply ask you to tell everyone that Dimdim is serious about democratizing the web meeting space and to come and try it.  Remember, you don't need to download a thing* to test out Dimdim (just sign up by clicking that orange button on the upper right of this page) and your invitees don't need to join Dimdim to attend your meetings.  (and we won't make any of them install a thing either.)  And if you want, you can download and test our Open Source Community Edition on your own servers.  Enjoy.

*Some of you have also said we've been a bit misleading about this "no download" thing.  Please read this article to clear the air. We're sorry if we've caused any problems with our overly aggressive marketing.  Blame the CMO.

Comments

[Frank]

Where can I download the Virtual Appliance?

[alexjc]

Any luck with the archiving feature? That's pretty important one for me...

[Adrian]

It's getting late in the week. In fact it's the end of the business week in the UK. Any developments yet on the 3.5 release? A word or two letting us know what's happening would go a long way.

[ganesan]

I am trying to install Dimdim in linux and I am getting the following error.

Disk space check failed. Required space is not available for /usr

Under /usr I have lot of space. Still the installation is not happening. What is the maximum space that is required to install dimdim?

Is there any alternate way to install the product. After I googled, I can see that many of them have the same problem. But the solution offered in few forums are also not working.

Please help me out.

[Ashish]

Do you know when we will release source code for v3.5?

[David]

I want to express my appreciation to you guys for taking these steps in the open source edition. Many of us had begun to question your commitment to making DimDim a true open source application.

A really good Howto on installing DimDim on Linux, especially Ubuntu, would be extremely useful and probably go a long way toward promoting the use of the open source edition. I'd be glad to work on one, especially with some consultation from you guys.

[mario]

ihave the same problem, i have 3.5 gb on my disk
i modified dimdiminstall_online.pl

sub checkspace()
{
print LOG "\tInside the disk space check \n";
my $diskfree=`df /usr`;
my @disk = split(/ /,$diskfree);
# if ($disk[50] > 524288 | $disk[51] > 524288 | $disk[52] > 524288 | $disk[48] > 524288 | $disk[49] > 524288)
# {
return 'true';
# }
# else
# {
# return 'false';
# }
}