[Discuss] FOSS alternative to MS Live Meeting

[David Bronaugh]

Just a random google but: http://www.dimdim.com/

David

Ken Walker wrote:
> I am a member of a professional organization that provides continuing
> education to its members.  The course provider is a very Microsoft
> oriented organization.  They offer courses online that are attended by
> as few as a dozen to as many as a hundred or more online attendees at
> various locations around the province.  Each user has to install
> Microsoft Live Meeting.  Bell Canada hosts the webcast on its servers.
>
> To this point the organization has provided a one way live audio feed
> and still images of power point slides along with a two way text chat
> box so that attendees can interact with course presenters but so far
> there has been no live video of the speakers.  The software also
> presents the user with a menu driven display of pdf course materials. 
>
> Some of the courses offered are online only.  Others are online
> presentations of live courses offered in hotel banquet rooms where
> reliable internet feeds have sometimes been a problem.
>
> They are now introducing a one way video feed so that those attending
> the course online can see the speakers. They employ camera operators to
> video record courses and I think they can run cameras for the live feed
> as well.   They seem to be unhappy with the result of the Live Meeting
> although to me, frankly,  it looks fine and seems works well.  My
> concern is that this system ties all of the attendees into using
> Windows.  I would like to be able to come up with a free software
> alternative.  When I say free I mean that in a FOSS sense.  They expect
> to pay for the services of the hosting provider.  I am sure that the
> Microsoft alternative will have considerable costs connected with it.
>
> So my question is, what alternatives can I suggest?
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