Dimdim announced a new release of its web meeting software specifically for the open source community. The new version, called Dimdim Open Source Community Edition Version 3.5, nicknamed "Eagle," is completely free and available for download. Dimdim "Eagle" is a unified communications platform created for and by the open source community. To date, this community has downloaded Dimdim's free open source web meeting software over 230,000 times.

Dimdim Eagle, which is available for both Linux and Windows platforms, is a complete real-time unified communication environment that allows anyone to share their desktop, show documents and slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. Attendees of Dimdim-powered web meetings do not need to install any software to join or participate.

Dimdim Open Source Community Edition "Eagle" includes the following new and improved features:

• Unlimited meeting attendees
• Unlimited simultaneous meetings
• 2-way video chat and webcam sharing
• Multi-attendee VoIP and microphone sharing
• Easy software appliance download which runs on multiple OSs with no install required
• New User Guide and other API documentation

"With such rich technologies available through the open source community, we see absolutely no need for proprietary software, large client downloads and ridiculous fees that are being charged for people to meet online," said Prakash Khot, co-founder and CTO of Dimdim. "Dimdim Eagle is dedicated to all those community members who have provided such great foundational products, along with the amazing feedback and support we've received. All of us at Dimdim are strong believers in the open source movement and are fans of Alfresco, SugarCRM and other open source pioneers and we hope that our product drives further communication and innovation throughout this pioneering community."

Dimdim Open Source Community Edition "Eagle" is built on top of proven and mature open source components -- such as Apache Tomcat, CherryPy Application Server, Lighttpd, and Open office and is completely integrated with Web 2.0 technologies -- such as AJAX, JSON, and Flash. This allows the delivery and sharing of rich media content without any need for any software installation by the attendee. Dimdim Open Source Community Edition "Eagle" also utilizes advanced screen-sharing capabilities that leverage the industry-standard RFB protocol used by VNC, which have been further enhanced to work over HTTP/S and deliver instant and hassle-free desktop sharing capabilities to anyone with a Flash-enabled web browser.

For more information on Dimdim contact Andrea Heuer, andrea@consortpartners.com