Hi everyone: This is a reminder for those of you who haven't already filled out the survey. If you have already done so, please disregard this message. Thanks for your support!
Dan, Joseph, and Maxim. ---------------- On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Joseph Karwat <[email protected]> wrote: This is an open letter to the OpenMeetings Community from Daniel Ascher ( > [email protected]), Joseph Karwat ([email protected]), and > Maxim Solodovnik ([email protected]). We also request that you take > the time to complete this survey http://goo.gl/forms/rfuMrwCRC4. > > > > As active members of the OpenMeetings community we are asking for your > support to implement a broad initiative which focuses on transforming > OpenMeetings into a highly reliable and robust open-source video > conferencing platform. Like many users we have been frustrated by the pace > of development, the quality of documentation, issues surrounding > installation, upgrading to the next release, audio and video quality, and > reliability. > > > > The goal of this initiative is to ensure the following happens within the > near future: > > 1) Maintenance and support for three (3) active demo instances hosted > by a reliable vendor such as Amazon Web Services and which includes, at > least, visual access to the Administrative Interface. > > o *The current release*--Open to the public and perhaps limited by the > number of people allowed in a meeting. > > o *The next release-* Open only to users that agree to help test, > committers, and commercial sponsors. The purpose of this environment is to > provide a controllable version for which QA testing as a community can be > accomplish > > o *Sandbox* for committers to test new code. Open to Committers and > Commercial sponsors. > > 2) Organize the community into four groups: > > o Users > > o Committers > > o Testers > > o Commercial Sponsors (those who pay a very small monthly fee to gain > access and advertising exposure -- for example, $10 dollars/euros per > month) > > 3) Create a system so that donations to the OM Community can easily > be made to support the demo environments and to hire engineers to code > specific parts of the OM platform to ensure OM stays viable. > > 4) Set formal rules on deciding what features make it into the next > release and which plugins and operating systems are to be formally > supported. > > 5) Set formal rules on requirements for realizing a new version to > include: > > o Clear and easy path to upgrade from the previous version > > o Robust testing of all features and interfaces > > o Capacity/Stress testing > > 6) Identify all organizations currently using OM with details about > their installation and a up-to-date contact person. > > 7) Ensure that OM is quickly transformed into a 100% HTML5 framework > and that all OpenLazlo code is removed. > > We would like your suggestions on how to make OM better and ask that you > complete the OM user survey by clicking here > <http://goo.gl/forms/rfuMrwCRC4>. Each person who completes the survey > will receive the results via email. > > > > Thank-you for your support. > > > > Daniel Ascher > > Joseph Karwat > > Maxim Solodovnik > -- Daniel Ascher, M.Ed. President A+ Test Prep and Tutoring "Creating Bright Futures" 505 York Road, Suite 6 Jenkintown, PA 19046 Office: 215.886.9188 Direct: 267.242.9640 www.aplustutoring.com
