We are happy to announce Version 1.3 of Openmeetings and its new features:

• Drawings stay on slide when you turn the page of a document on the whiteboard
• Restricted Room Type further optimization for 100++ participants. We have done some Stress test with the University of Umeå from Sweden and Vasaa in Finland with about 120-130 participants in a Single Conference Room (Type Restricted). They went successfull. Thanks to the Team of http://www.openkvarken.fi again
• Quality Settings in Screen Sharing Clients, contributed by Giovanni Possemato / Bitflow (http://www.bitflow.it) + RTMP-Tunneling Version of ScreenSharer fixed
• New SOAP Calls to get User-Object List including Streamname to broadcast a Video Stream out of a Conference directly
• Screen Sharing/Recording is now a separated right, therefore new layout for User-List in all room-types
• Option in Room-Settings and Administration “Audio Only” so users can only do Voice Conference in those rooms
• Video Pod hidden (Conference-Roomtype) or minimized (Webinar/Restricted-Roomtype) if User selects only Audio as device to broadcast
• Activity-Icon highlights when user speaks, now also in User-List (Room-Type Conference) instead of Video-Pod
• System Backup and Import - You can export now completely Users + Rooms + Organizations + all associations + all uploaded Files into a single ZIP and re-import that ZIP in a freshly installed OpenMeetings (of course you need an OpenMeetings Version greater 1.3 to be able to import the ZIP again) see also UpdateOpenMeetings

Major Bug fixes:

• Invitations Password does not work
• Reminder Email not beeing send before scheduled Meetings (now send 15 minutes upfront no matter if ICAL or simple Mail)
• lots of small things

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/ChangeLog

Downloads:

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/downloads/list

The SugarCRM and Moodle Integration is fully upwards compatible.

we successfully installed OpenMeetings on Amazon EC2. It worked out of the box without any huzzle. I think this is good news to a lot of people that would like to scale OpenMeetings for their needs.

Amazon offers already a lot of instances to install as operating system. We have been using one of the over 200 Debian operating systems that have been available.

I think the only important thing is … Never press the shutdown button in amazon (for example to save money) Cause as its a virtual machine all your data is gone!

You also need to check that you are installing OpenMeetings at a location where enough space is left.

you can now use OpenMeeting within Facebook with the application:

Visit the Application at Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=369748959583

Or go directly and add it to your account: http://apps.facebook.com/openmeetings/