[Building Sakai] Is Agora still ACTIVE?

[Adrian Fish]

In my opinion, and it is just my opinion, DimDim is in the process of 
going closed source. BigBlueButton on the other hand has a good 
community and is most definitely not closing up. Nuno Fernandes and I 
are working on the Sakai integration.

My general recommendation for people  looking at Agora is: Look at BBB 
and the Sakai integration instead.

Cheers,

Adrian.

alaanizar at iihem.ac.ma wrote:
> Hi, first time I heared about the BigBlueButton, I'll try it. For 
> Dimdim, you're absolutally right!
>
> regards,
>
>
> ******************************************
>
> Thanks. That's interesting. I've been looking at open source 
> conferencing systems. I'm reluctant to try Dimdim, because it seems to 
> have been abandoned by its authors. They did 4.5, but don't seem to be 
> doing anything further. There are two other open-source systems that I 
> know of, Openmeetings and BigBlueButton. Of the two, BigBlueButton 
> seems to have more activity. It has a Sakai integration in contrib, 
> though I haven't tried it yet.
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2010, at 5:46 AM, alaanizar at iihem.ac.ma 
> <mailto:alaanizar at iihem.ac.ma> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First, I installed Dimdim 4.5 GPL version as a standalone server. I 
>> works well.
>> Second, I used the LinkTool tool in Sakai to connect it to Dimdim. 
>> The idea was to create a web meeting as the name of the course site. 
>> I used the GET.:POST methods gieven with Dimdim intergartion guides. 
>> Again, it just works.
>>
>> Finally, we added some security tricks like the emails who are 
>> authorized to create meetings and the like, again from the guides of 
>> Dimdim and some other guides.
>>
>> I would like to see a specific tool for Dimdim intergartion as the 
>> one of Elluminate.
>>
>> Besides, I missed the record meeting option in Dimdim, and again, no 
>> new gPL version, ??????
>>
>>
>> that's all she wrote.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> ************************************************
>>
>>
>>
>> What conclusion did you come to? We have the same situation. I'm 
>> considering putting a bit of development effort into somethinig if I 
>> have to, whether agora maintenance or dimdim integration.
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 10:59 AM, alaanizar at iihem.ac.ma 
>> <mailto:alaanizar at iihem.ac.ma> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> You are evaluating agora and dimdim as two products to integrate 
>>> with sakai for
>>> video conferencing.
>>>
>>> On the process, I get the latest version of agora outdated, more
>>> than two years and no version released. Is the software still in 
>>> beta status, or is it stable for
>>> production use?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>>
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>>> Alaa Nizar
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>>> You are evaluating agora and dimdim as two products to integrate 
>>> with sakai for
>>> video conferencing.
>>>
>>> On the process, I get the latest version of agora outdated, more
>>> than two years and no version released. Is the software still in 
>>> beta status, or is it stable for
>>> production use?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Alaa Nizar
>>> Network and System
>>> Administrator
>>> Phone : 0021269437087
>>> Web site: http://www.iihem.ac.ma <http://www.iihem.ac.ma/>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> You are evaluating agora and dimdim as two products to integrate 
>>> with sakai for video conferencing.
>>>
>>> On the process, I get the latest version of agora outdated, more 
>>> than two years and no version released. Is the software still in 
>>> beta status, or is it stable for production use?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Alaa Nizar
>>> Network and System Administrator
>>> Phone : 0021269437087
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Lancaster University
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email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk

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