Opensource web collaboration and conferencing in java and flash
I found it hard to believe that no one in the open soruce world found time to write an alternative to the popular webex (now owned by Cisco) and gotomypc services. I need these services daily to demo code and also to give tutorials to friends and family so I started to search.
And it didn’t take me long – I discovered dimdim. The service looks really promising and its free conferencing for upto 20 users, which more than meets my needs.
Here is the really interesting bit – there is a open source (GPL) community edition of this product. What I love about dimdim is that it’s written in java and uses the tomcat/mysql/terracotta stack and I intend to tweak it and get it running on my linux box minus terracotta and litghtHTTPD very soon. Let’s see how it goes. It’s in beta and the product is very functional.
Cant wait I haven’t been this excited in a long time.
