web conferencing

[Dennis Wilson]

Any suggestions for a web conferencing solution that:

·       supports all platforms

·       scales to 500+ participants

·       integrates both VoIP and telephone audio (concurrently!)

·       records both video/audio for later posting

·       provides Q&A/chat functions

·       but is not outrageously expensive

From a lot of searching, Live Meeting and WebEx are the only ones I’ve found that come close – except for price.

I need to set something up quickly for our sessions next week, but at a minimum, we’ll post a phone conference line and PDF files for download.

thanks,

Dennis Wilson

CCHIT

[Ben Mehling]

I'm not certain if dimdim meets the specific requirements below, but I believe their Enterprise product does all of that.  Take a look at their offering to validate your specifics though.

 

http://www.dimdim.com

 

- Ben

 

Ben Mehling

Director, Ecosystem Operations

Medsphere Systems Corporation

http://medsphere.org || http://medsphere.com

 

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[Dennis Wilson]

Thanks Ben.  I heard about DimDim being operable across multiple platforms.

 

Last week I signed up for one of their paid PRO accounts, and tested thoroughly for several days.  The VoIP + phone conf audio integration is totally missing, and the reliance on Flash (instead of Java) for platform neutrality didn’t score well for me.  Also seems like Adobe has struggled with security issues recently.

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[fred trotter]

CCHIT has been willing to use a FOSS solution for conferencing, but I do not know of one. The PDF plus call-in is a backup plan for those of us who do not want to use a proprietary system.

 

-FT

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[Blaine Warkentine]

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[Edmund Billings]

Dimdim is FOSS.

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On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:17 PM, "fred trotter" <fred.t...@gmail.com<mailto:fred.t...@gmail.com>> wrote:

CCHIT has been willing to use a FOSS solution for conferencing, but I do not know of one. The PDF plus call-in is a backup plan for those of us who do not want to use a proprietary system.

-FT

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Dennis Wilson <<mailto:dwi...@cchit.org>dwi...@cchit.org<mailto:dwi...@cchit.org>> wrote:

Any suggestions for a web conferencing solution that:

• supports all platforms

• scales to 500+ participants

• integrates both VoIP and telephone audio (concurrently!)

• records both video/audio for later posting

• provides Q&A/chat functions

• but is not outrageously expensive

From a lot of searching, Live Meeting and WebEx are the only ones I’ve found that come close – except for price.

I need to set something up quickly for our sessions next week, but at a minimum, we’ll post a phone conference line and PDF files for download.

thanks,

Dennis Wilson

CCHIT





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Fred Trotter

<http://www.fredtrotter.com/>http://www.fredtrotter.com

[Crawford Rainwater]

Dennis and company:

This might be overkill some, but Novell has their "Teaming" branch
which is the former SiteScape group (acquired by Novell a year or so
ago). It is also based on KaBlink which is FOSS (formerly known as
ICECore also FOSS).

Novell's pitch:
http://www.novell.com/solutions/collaboration/

KaBlink project:
http://www.kablink.org/

If folks want this to be implemented privately, contact me off list
since we have had several requests for this as well. Do keep in mind
as well for Dennis' requests, you will need some "beefy" hardware and
bandwidth to make this match a WebEx or similar "smoothly".

--- Crawford

Crawford Rainwater
CEO and President
Linux+, LCP, RHCT, LPIC-1

The Linux ETC Company
10121 Yates Court
Westminster, CO 80031 USA
voice: +1.303.604.2550
web: http://www.linux-etc.com

On Jun 10, 3:23 pm, "Dennis Wilson" <dwil...@cchit.org> wrote:
> Any suggestions for a web conferencing solution that:
>

> *       supports all platforms
> *       scales to 500+ participants
> *       integrates both VoIP and telephone audio (concurrently!)
> *       records both video/audio for later posting
> *       provides Q&A/chat functions
> *       but is not outrageously expensive

>
> From a lot of searching, Live Meeting and WebEx are the only ones I've

> found that come close - except for price.