9 posts tagged “open source”
Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) October 3, 2007 -- ClassroomRevolution.com, LLC and Yugma, Inc. (www.yugma.com) are pleased to announce the creation of a Joint Cooperation Agreement created to promote robust, reliable and inexpensive online learning and collaboration tools.
As a Moodle Partner, ClassroomRevolution.com has been authorized to provide Moodle services for the entire U.S. Market for the past four years. Using their experience and skills, the staff of ClassroomRevolution.com offer clients a variety of services, including: fully managed Moodle hosting, comprehensive Moodle training, Moodle development, and Moodle customization. Moodle (www.moodle.org) has long been recognized as a leader in the field of online learning management system (LMS) software. Moodle is an open-source project which has spread throughout the Internet, with over 30,000 registered sites using Moodle¹ to deliver online courseware as of September 2007. The architecture of Moodle is also built using open-source software technologies including PHP and MySQL.
Yugma is a free web conferencing and online collaboration service that is also built using PHP and MySQL open-source technologies. The philosophy of open-source is also evident by the commitment of Yugma to offer a collaboration service that enables users to host sessions and invite up to 10 participants free of charge. Premium versions of Yugma are also available which allows for up to 500 participants per session. Yugma Premium Services also extends a rich feature set including: the ability to share mouse and keyboard controls with other attendees, scheduling of sessions, session recording and webcast, whiteboard tools, built-in file sharing feature, and more.
Together, Yugma and ClassroomRevolution.com combine to offer a dynamic and compelling alternative to products that cost far more. The Joint Cooperation Agreement seeks to promote a complete solution for online course delivery, including live interactive collaboration. "Yugma provided an easily accessible download that afforded our Moodle training participants an opportunity to bridge the barriers of time and distance." said John Westbrook, Course Share Network Coordinator at the Alabama Independent School Association."Yugma is very user friendly with the needed flexibility to ensure successful online conferencing."
¹ Moodle.org. "Moodle: Moodle Statistics." http://moodle.org/stats 2007.
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Media Contacts:
Jonah Cagley
Yugma, Inc.
jonah[at]yugma.com
www.yugma.com
Thomas Caswell
ClassroomRevolution.com, LLC
tcaswell[at]classroomrevolution.com
www.classroomrevolution.com
We invited Microsoft and key stakeholders of the Linux community to
meet and discuss the "Show Us The Code" issue on May 1st, the deadline
date of the Show Us The Code challenge. Interesting results!
More background at www.yugma.com/showusthecode
We just updated the Yugma website so
that once you sign in (and click "remember me") you stay logged in.
And when you are logged into the Yugma website, when ever you click Start
or Join
a session, you’ll now go straight into a Yugma session without being prompted
again for your Username and Password. Additionally, when you are signed in to
the website, Yugma will automatically display your summary of your upcoming
Yugma sessions.
Thanks to all of the members of the Yugma community for your great suggestions. We're making Yugma easier to use every day. By the way, we've got many big and little improvements on the way. Keep sending us your suggestions (at forum[at]yugma.com), and stay tuned.
One last
thing: please remember to tell your friends and co-workers about Yugma. You'll
automatically be entered to win this month's "Tell a Friend" sweepstakes for the 80GB iPod.
Yugma hosted the Microsoft/Linux Community "sit down" meeting yesterday, as planned. Leading up to the meeting, we invited Microsoft via post, fax, email and by submitting to their Executive Group center (and I followed up with various phone calls). We also invited many key stakeholders from across the Linux community including the Linux foundation, Free Software Foundation, Linux Journal, Red Hat, Bryan Peters of Show Us the Code movement, and numerous other Linux elitists. We posted blogs, issued a press release to let people know that the meeting was set for today as 12n PT, followed up with reminder emails, and phone calls, and reserved a Yugma online meeting to handle up to 500 attendees. The purpose was to collaboratively work to resolve issues related to the Show Us The Code topic.
AND THEN... we had a very interesting and telling result. What do you think happened??? Can you hear the theme of the movie "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly " playing?
We recorded the meeting and will publish it within the next day or two. I'll follow up with the link.... I think you'll find it to be very interesting...
As announced on April 13, 2007, a meeting has been scheduled with invitations to key stakeholders across the Linux community as well as to Microsoft to discuss the "Show Us The Code" debate. The meeting is design to be a virtual “sit down” on the date of the 5/1/07 deadline. The purpose of the meeting is to have both groups join the live session and present their sides.
Microsoft has repeatedly claimed that Linux violates many of Microsoft's patents. In a public letter to Steven Ballmer, the Show Us The Code movement issued a request for clarification about which patents Microsoft was referring to. Linux community members furthermore requested that individuals “Publicly pledge your support for Microsoft showing the public the code within Linux that violates their intellectual property by May 1st, 2007.“ Through another open letter and invitation to key players and observers, we arranged a forum for each side to address the other. Will Microsoft continue to press their case and ignore the challenge? Or will the issue quietly fizzle out? Let's see what happens on May 1st.
Meeting information follows:
Date/Time: May 1, 2007 at 12:00 Noon Pacific Time
Place: www.yugma.com (click Join Session button)
Teleconference Bridge: +1-218-486-3889
Yugma Session ID: 109-433-046
Agenda:
- Microsoft clarify which patents are being violated
- Key stakeholders from the Linux community can respond
Attendees can attend using either Windows, Mac or Linux computers. Yugma will record the session and make it
available to both parties afterwards for their own distribution.
See you at the meeting!
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The beta version of the Linux viewer for Yugma is now available at www.yugma.com (then click the DOWNLOAD button). It supports the following versions of Linux:
* Note: The Yugma control panel is invisible (hidden in system tray) when minimized. This item is currently being worked. With the Yugma Linux viewer, Linux users will be able to join Yugma sessions hosted by Windows and Mac computers. The desktop sharing feature for the Linux version is a "future feature." You are welcomed to test it out. Please let us know what you experience in this version. |
The Linux version of the Yugma free web conferencing service is available at the beta test site http://test.yugma.com/about/index.php (then click the DOWNLOAD button). It supports Red Hat Enterprise 4.0, Mandriva, Open SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Centos, and Ubuntu.
You are welcomed to test it out. Please let us know what you experience in this version (send comments to support[at]yugma[dot]com). The only caveat about the beta version on the test platform is that the servers and bandwidth is not the same level as available in our production service. Therefore, if you see slower performance, it’s due to the nature of the test platform.
We are planning to move the Linux compatible version (beta) of Yugma to the production site over the weekend.
We just posted the schedule for Stage 2. Check it out at https://www.yugma.com/stage2/.
If you are at the Web 2.0 Expo, stop by booth #322 during the time posted. You can also attend virtually by clicking on “Join a Session” and using the Session ID noted for the presentation.
It's going to be great... "See you there!"
Yugma is reaching out to Linux community and Microsoft for May 1 “Show Us The Code” deadline
[Note inserted on June 3: View youtube video to see what happened at the 5/1/2007 meeting.]
Yesterday, I issued an invitation to both the Show Us The Code and Microsoft communities regarding a virtual “sit down” for the May 1, 2007 deadline. Yugma’s web collaboration software would enable key players from both groups to join a live session and present their sides.
As many of you know, in a letter to Steven Ballmer, the Linux community has requested that individuals “Publicly pledge your support for Microsoft showing the public the code within Linux that violates their intellectual property by May 1st, 2007. “ Through an open invitation to key players and observers, we intend to provide a forum for each side to address the other.
We’ve been watching this movement and wondering what would materialize on May 1 to complete this debate. Since people all over the world may want to participate, we wanted to offer a solution that would work regardless of geographic location and platform. We’re hoping that we can be one of the catalysts to end this question of code ownership.
The full text of the letter follows:
OPEN LETTER TO: Linux Community & Microsoft
My name is Karel Lukas, and I'm the COO at a web collaboration company called Yugma. I've been following the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft’s position closely, and understand how important this issue is for the future vitality of the Open Source and Linux communities.
As the May 1st deadline approaches, we at Yugma have been wondering what the ultimate conclusion of this debate will be. Will it quietly fizzle out? Will Microsoft continue to press their case and ignore the challenge? As we are approaching the May 1st deadline, we propose that we all collectively drive this debate to a proper conclusion.
Yugma is about to launch our Linux version, which will make our collaboration service interoperable between Linux, Mac, and PC. We think that makes us the perfect platform for hosting a virtual "sit-down" between the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft on the day of the deadline.
For this event, we are offering to host a live debate between the Show Us The Code group and Microsoft on May 1st. Microsoft can present the alleged offending code live. Leaders from the Linux community can respond. Yugma will record the session and make it available to both parties afterwards for their own distribution. The date, time, and meeting information follows:
Date/Time: May 1, 2007 at 12:00 Noon Pacific Time
Place: www.yugma.com (click Join Session button)
Teleconference Bridge: +1-218-486-3889
Yugma Session ID: 109-433-046
We think Yugma would be a great venue for educating more people (and the Tech press) about the Show Us The Code movement as well as Microsoft’s position. We are in the process of contacting key contacts within both organizations to identify the key participants for the event. Likewise, key contacts from the Linux community and from Microsoft can contact us at showusthecode@yugma.com . We will be exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco April 16-18. If any of you will be there, please stop by the Yugma booth and we can discuss in person (booth #322).
