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| title: Apache OpenMeetings 2.0 Incubating released |
| date: '2012-07-26T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: openmeetings |
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">We are happy to announce Version 2.0 of Apache OpenMeetings Incubating!</span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">This is our first release as Apache project and there have been major changes almost everywhere in the application.</span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Restyled UI </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The
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| UI has been refactored to have a common look and feel. Additionally
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| most of the icons are now loaded at runtime. That means you can change
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| colors and icons at runtime without changing the source code. More info:
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| </span><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/themes-and-branding.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://incubator.apache.org/<wbr>openmeetings/themes-and-<wbr>branding.html</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">New Calendar </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The
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| calendar was completely refactored and got a new UI that was built from
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| scratch that also adds some new functions. For example it is possible
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| now to password protect invitations sent via the calendar. Further the
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| timezone handling has been refactored and there is now also a SOAP/REST
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| API to handle calendar Events ( </span><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/SoapRestAPI.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://incubator.apache.org/<wbr>openmeetings/SoapRestAPI.html</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> )</span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Integration with Asterisk </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The
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| application contains now modules to directly integrate OpenMeetings
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| with Asterisk for SIP/VoIP integration. It enables you to dial in as
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| well as dial out of conference room to SIP or ordinary phones. More
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| info: </span><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/voip-sip-integration.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://incubator.apache.org/<wbr>openmeetings/voip-sip-<wbr>integration.html</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Install/Backup/Import via command line </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Additionally
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| to the Web-Interface you can now do all basic operations via console. Just cd to your OpenMeetings installation directory and type
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| “admin” (or ./admin.sh) and you will see all the options available (OpenMeetings service
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| should be shut down while doing those operations)</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Using SWF10 for Video Components </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">All
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| audio/video related components now use SWF10 for broadcasting and
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| receiving audio and video signals. That makes it possible to use for
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| example the echo cancellation feature build in the SWF10 Flash Player.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">There
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| are a lot more improvements for example to recording, screen sharing
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| and new layout options. To see the full list please review our Release
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| Notes for Version 2.0:</span><br><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12312720&version=12319197" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://issues.apache.org/<wbr>jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?<wbr>projectId=12312720&version=<wbr>12319197</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">There are also new Integration Plugins in the pipe!</span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Integration into Atlassian Jira </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">There is a plugin in our SVN that will be released soon for integration with Atlassian Jira, you can watch a demo here: </span><a href="https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/jira_integration_apache_openmeetings_demo" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://blogs.apache.org/<wbr>openmeetings/entry/jira_<wbr>integration_apache_<wbr>openmeetings_demo</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Integration into Atlassian Confluence</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> Same for Atlassian Confluence Wiki, you can watch a demo here: </span><a href="https://blogs.apache.org/openmeetings/entry/demo_video_about_upcoming_atlassian" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://blogs.apache.org/<wbr>openmeetings/entry/demo_video_<wbr>about_upcoming_atlassian</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Important Changes </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">OpenOffice
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| service does not need to be running as permanent service. But you have to set the
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| path to OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) and JODConverter tools in
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| OpenMeetings configuration. OpenMeetings (and JODConverter) will start
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| and stop the OpenOffice service when they need it.</span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
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| <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Upgrading from</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Version 1.9 or prior</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">
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| To update from an old version of OpenMeetings to 2.x you should use the
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| integrated Backup and Import tool that exists since around Version 1.3.
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| You should follow our documentation, see: </span><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/Upgrade.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://incubator.apache.org/<wbr>openmeetings/Upgrade.html</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><br clear="all">
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| <br><b>Downloads</b> of sources and binaries are available from the mirrors linked here:<br><a href="http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/downloads.html" target="_blank">http://incubator.apache.org/<wbr>openmeetings/downloads.html</a><br>
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| <br>All downloads can be verified using the Apache OpenMeetings code
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| signing
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| <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/openmeetings/KEYS" target="_blank">KEYS</a> |
