+1
Regards
JB
On 11/08/2011 10:41 PM, Ate Douma wrote:
+1
Ate
On 11/07/2011 10:53 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Opemeetings proposal has been discussed a few times here before. The
group of developers behind it worked hard (and succeeded) to address
all potential obstacles to the Incubator acceptance and to the
following incubation. They even went an extra mile and collected all
ICLAs in adbvance.
So now I am starting the vote to accept Openmeetings to Apache Incubator.
The proposal is also available at:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenmeetingsProposal
Please cast your votes:
[ ] +1 Accept Openmeetings for incubation
[ ] +0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
The vote is open for 72 hours.
Andrus
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== OpenMeetings Project Proposal ==
== Abstract ==
Openmeetings is a web conferencing solution.
== Proposal ==
Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white
board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using
API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
== Background ==
Openmeetings was developed since 2007 by Sebastian Wagner and willing
developers. The project ships a release approximately once per
quarter. It was developed using LGPL license, and developers are
currently thinking of re-licensing it under Apache License 2.0.
The project started as module by Sebastian Wagner for an ELearning
platform (Dokeos) and was then split into a separated project. That is
the reason why there is a strong relation to educational institutions
that are using OpenMeetings and there are integrations for platforms
like Moodle, ATutor, Sakai, STudIP or ILias available
(http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/MoodlePlugins). The
relation to educational institutions also subsequently lead to some
projects funded by the EU where OpenMeetings was involved, for example
by the Swedish/Finnish Centre of Open-Source !OpenKarken (Case-Study
about the EU project at OSOR.eu:
http://www.osor.eu/studies/finland-and-sweden-collaborate-using-oss )
The integration and internationalization of the project was a primary
focus right from the start of the project. Since Version 0.5 there is
a Language-Editor
(http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/LanguageEditor) to edit
labels, export and import them as XML and you can use those XML files
for future installations (or contribute it to the community). There
are currently around 30 languages available. Since version 0.5.1 there
is also a SOAP API to integrate !OpenMeetings. We constantly improve
this SOAP/REST API
(http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/SoapMethods) with new
functionality with a strong focus on security and usability. The
auth-mechnism is quite similar to OAuth, you create some token and
then assign rights to the token. (Documentation for Single Sign On:
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/DirectLoginSoapGeneralFlow)
The project name "!OpenMeetings" and logos are inspired by Ludovic
Gasc who has been the project manager at Dokeos at the time Sebastian
split !OpenMeetings as separated project.
Red5 Server provides an "Edge-Orion-Clustering"
(http://trac.red5.org/wiki/Documentation/Tutorials/EdgeOriginClusteringConfiguration).
We hope to extend this clustering solution with support for rtmpt and
rtmps and integrate that into our application as native clustering
option.
== Rationale ==
Last year most major vendors started commercial web conferencing
solutions. This is an important part of software ecosystem, and there
is an urge to consolidate open source development efforts in this
direction.
According to several studies demand for synchronous Communication, in
opposite to asynchronous Communication like wiki's or email, will
raise the upcoming years. For example Gartner promises that 2011 the
market will grow 20% according to their "Magic Quadrant" report 2010 (
http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=205941 ).
Openmeetings is a unique solution in terms of patent purity and
potentially can grow into solution built on top of the fully open
source stack. That is why it is a good candidate for consolidating web
conferencing community efforts.
== Initial Goals ==
Each of project committers has their own set of goals, but we all
share the following.
* Move to Apache.
* Become popular.
To become popular we plan to do the following.
* Improve ecosystem around the project.
* Improve release process.
* Improve project testing and stability.
* Apply modular architecture/SOA for better integration with other
projects.
== Current Status ==
We have agreed on applying for the Apache Foundation and preparing our
proposal for the vote.
Technical status of the project is: Current stable tree is 1.8.x,
Trunk is 1.9.
=== Meritocracy ===
Developers community is successfully driven by consensus now. If there
are more developers on board, consensus may turn into meritocracy.
=== Community ===
The developer community is active. The mailing list is active with
dozens of messages every day, mostly user support topics.
Currently the User Mailing list has over 1000 members, the dev-list
has around 250.
=== Core Developers ===
Sebastian has started the application 07/2006. Current development
team counts 21 programmers from Germany, Russia, China, India and
South America.
=== Alignment ===
The project provides a safe ground for Apache for entering a complex
field of video streaming. It avoids complex patenting issues by using
proprietary Adobe Flash. From the other side it may grow into
independent solution because it uses OpenLaszlo RIA framework rather
than a particular proprietary vendor language, and after framework
evolves can use other frontend representations such as javascript.
== Known Risks ==
=== Orphaned Projects ===
Openmeetings project has developed a sufficient functionality to be a
popular solution for a small businesses. The number of site visits of
the googlecode project website increased to 50.000 in October 2011
which is a good sign of people interest. The overall statistics for
the last 4 years shows around 4 mio pageviews (google-analytics
graphic:http://wagner-sebastian.com/_log/website.png). We believe that
visitors convert to users, and users convert to developers in some
standard rate.
=== Inexperience With Open Source ===
Two committers have GSoC experience. One committer is an Apache
committer. The project exists since 07/2008 already as an open source
project hosted at !GoogleCode http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings
=== Reliance On Salaried Developers ===
Some contributors get paid from Openmeetings-based consultancy.
=== Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
Web application part of Openmeetings runs under Apache Tomcat. It uses
Apache Commons and Apache Velocity. Red5 server uses a lot of Apache
components, including Apache Mina. !OpenMeetings itself uses Apache
Axis2 for the SOAP / REST API. !OpenMeetings was reworked to use
Apache OpenJPA instead of Hibernate. Since revision 4000 (version 1.8)
all dependencies to Hibernate have been removed from the source.
=== An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
The Apache Foundation is the home of vendor neutral and industry
standard software. By joining the Foundation we will apply Apache's
Release and Licensing Standards to our product. Doing that we will
improve our release processes, quality standards and it should give a
planning reliability to our end users. But our main motivation is that
our project is about collaboration, communication and enabling people
to easily interact with each other. We think that the "Apache Way" of
community driven software development with flat hierarchy and
transparency in decision and design will reflect best those core
activities of our software.
Well, or course we want our project to be alive, and useful. Several
contributors have former experience with Apache Harmony project (which
previously has been known as SourceForge ORP project). Apache brand is
really helpful compared to SourceForge brand for community building
and getting support from commercial companies. From the other side
org.apache.harmony story shows that the brand cannot help when there
no community remain. Hence we try to keep people interested, and the
product developed at the first place, thus supporting Apache brand
fame with good facts.
== Initial Source ==
* http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
=== External Dependencies ===
Adobe Flash (by means of !OpenLaszlo) and open source projects
compliant with current Apache policy. The UI code is compiled by using
!OpenLaszlo, not by using Adobe products. !OpenLaszlo is licenced
under the CPL. !OpenLaszlo's concept is that you write the code in a
XML based approach, it is possible to compile the output to Flash or
DHTML/HTML5. So on the long run it might be possible to replace the
Flash UI with a DHTML one. But as there is little multimedia support
in HTML5 especially for Webcam and Microphone access it is not
possible yet to prevent using Flash in general. The needed Real-Time
Communication could be done using Ajax and HTTP-Push mechanisms like
Comet instead of AMF which is currently used.
For Flash Streaming Red5 is used ( http://code.google.com/p/red5 ).
Red5 is currently a LGPL licensed Software based on Apache Tomcat /
Apache MINA and Spring. Red5 will change to APL very soon, they
already internally discussed that some time ago and voted on it:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/red5developers/apache/red5developers/QkwBygXUGM0/KK4uICz0wEsJ
Dependcies to Red5 API as graphs: Java Web-Start application
(Screen-Sharing and Recording)
http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/svn-history/r4162/docs/Red5.webstart.png
Java Web-Application
(http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/svn-history/r4162/docs/Red5.webapp.png
).
=== Cryptography ===
OpenMeetings can be deployed using HTTPS and RTMPS (Flash Streaming
and Remoting over SSL):
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/RTMPSandHTTPS
= Required Resources =
Subversion Directory:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openmeetings
Issue Tracking: JIRA (OPENMEETINGS)
Required Mailing lists:
* openmeetings-u...@incubator.apache.org
* openmeetings-...@incubator.apache.org
* openmeetings-comm...@incubator.apache.org
Wiki, Webspace: Confluence or similar software where we can integrate
our current wiki and documentation
(http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/MainPage?tm=6)
Other Resources:
Continuous integration and Nightly Builds may eventually require hardware
We are currently hosted on googlecode. There was an option in
googlecode available to transfer a googlecode project to Apache. We
would like to ask the hosting staff at Googlecode if they could maybe
give us advice how we can easily get a copy of our project to import
it into the new project space at Apache.
== Initial Committers ==
* Sebastian Wagner<seba.wagner at gmail dot com>
* Oliver Becherer (smoeker)<ich at oliver-becherer dot name>
* Rodion Volkov<volkov.rodion at gmail dot com>
* Alexei Fedotov<aaf at apache dot org>
* Evgeny Rovinsky<e.rovinsky at gmail dot com>
* Maxim Solodovnik< solomax666 at gmail dot com>
* Sascha Xander< sascha.xander at googlemail dot com>
* Johnny Strom<johnny.strom at osp dot fi>
* Eugen Schwert< eugen.schwert at googlemail dot com>
If any other existing Apache or Openmeetings committers would like to
be grandfathered into the list then feel free to ask.
= Sponsors =
=== Champion ===
* Andrus Adamchik<aadamchik at apache dot org>
=== Mentors ===
Volunteers, please.
* Alexei Fedotov<aaf at apache dot org>
* Jim Jagielski<jim at apache dot org>
* Ross Gardler<rgardler at apache dot org>
* Yegor Kozlov<yegor at apache dot org>
=== Sponsoring Entity ===
We would like to ask the Incubator PMC to sponsor Openmeetings.
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