DimDim is ending contributions to their open source project.
If the acquisition of DimDim makes you think the open source web conferencing market is shrinking, it’s not. It’s actually growing.
A successful open source project is not just about software, it’s about building a healthy ecosystem in which users, companies, and developers all finding benefits in contributing to improving BigBlueButton.
Take a look through our growing developer mailing lists. Do a twitter search on BigBlueButton. Check out our open source integrations. Or set your own BigBlueButton server (it will take you about fifteen minutes if you have a spare computer with Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit or 64-bit), or try our demo server.
You see that BigBlueButton is growing and giving you a real open source choice.
DimDim is going away, but BigBlueButton is here to stay.
