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we are happy ton announce Version 1.7 and the new official website of OpenMeetings at http://www.openmeetings.de

http://www.openmeetings.de will be the general landing zone for people to get started with OpenMeetings.
The Demo Servers are now located at http://demo.openmeetings.de

Besides that we released a new Version, that includes some major new features:

• Multi-Whiteboard, you can add new whiteboard instances, each whiteboard can have the full range of tools and documents inside.
• Advanced File-Explorer, Drag and Drop Interface for managing files, including possibility to create a document tree with folders.
• Private and Public Drive in File-Explorer. The File-Explorer has two different views, one is the Private Drive and the other the Public Drive. The Private Drive always contains the same files. Those files are only visible to the user currently loggedin. The Public Drive is bound not to the user, but to the conference room. All users in the conference room have access to the Public Drive.
• Save whiteboards. You can save each whiteboard instance as a file. The file is located in the File-Explorer and can be drag and drop’ed and organized like any other document, image or folder.
• New User-Level: SOAP/Web-Service only. For security reasons there is a new user-level. You can now create user-accounts that have only the ability to access via SOAP. In former versions you always need an admin account.
• MyRooms section. Each user has now by default 2 personal rooms that are always accessible exclusive for that user. There are buttons to enter those rooms from the dashboard
• VoIP-Integration. Together with our Finish partner and the Open Source Department of Kvarken region we have done a VoIP integration by using an applet for the audio part. For further information see VoIPAndSIP

As always you can download the latest version at:
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/downloads/list

Thanks to everybody to all our volunteers that help to translate, debug,
submit bugs or simply write blog post explaining their usage scenario.

Demo Video of new features in version 1.6

• You can login using your Facebook account now
• Private message center, send users messages, organize them in folders, you can book conference rooms by sending private messages, the booked event is automatically in your and the participants calendar, changes to that event will be populated to all users booked to the event.
• User contacts, you can search users, add them to your contacts
• Share your calendar with your contacts
• Add offerings and interest to your profile to find people with similar interest
• Reworked Full-fit functionality, Full-fit does rescale the document on the screen to be 100% visible on all screens, no matter what screen resolution you got. So the zoom might be 60% on one pc and 79% on a participant with different screen resolution
• Objects drawn on the whiteboard do now zoom according to the document and the zoom itself can be now between 0 and 200% of the actual pixel size
• Encrpyted PDFs do work now
• The backup does contain various fixes and includes the complete folder structure of the recordings + recordorded files, and all data that is generated by the new features private messages and user contacts
• Some new timezones and fixes for the release 1.5 regarding wrong time zones in some mail notifications

We are facing some strange behaviour with the new FP 10,1,53,64. Some Windows user seem to have a Plugin crash as soon as you publish the stream. The funny thing is that I have the same Windows7, FP 10,1,53,64 on another device, working fine ). While some people tried 2-3 boxes and all crashed (.

The behavior can be quite easily duplicated: You can just goto the Youtube Self Recording application (http://www.youtube.com/my_webcam) as soon as you hit on the button in the Security Dialog, Flash Player crashes.
Here are some sample screen

Crash:

There is no difference in IE or Firefox. The webcam the user was using was a cyberlink webcam. Other Laptop’s with integrated webcam did crash too.

There seems to be already some buzz about that at:

http://flashvisions.com/general/flash-player-10-1-1015364-crashes-when-accessing-webcam/

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3031253#3031253
And somebody proposes a workaround:

http://sixby9.co.uk/general-computing/solution-webcam-crashes-or-hangs-flash-and-browser/

Hope guys @ Adobe will come up soon with an update, before my clients bang my head against the wall )