We are pleased to pass along this announcement from Sebastian Wagner:

Hi,

I would like to announce that we have release OpenMeetings in Version 1.8, based on the OpenLaszlo framework
I think it can be called quite full-featured: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/ChangeLog
Although we still try to improve and permanently add new features.

We are also applying for the Apache Incubator: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenmeetingsProposal
And after a while we have now an Apache Champion and enough Mentors from the Foundation to move on to bring OpenMeetings into the Apache Incubator. So if things work well that could become the first OpenLaszlo powered project at the Apache Foundation!

Sebastian
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Sebastian Wagner
http://www.webbase-design.de
http://openmeetings.googlecode.com
http://www.wagner-sebastian.com
seba.wagner@gmail.com

It seems that somewhere we should mark the event of the 10,000th JIRA issue being filed yesterday. That's a lot of issues, a lot of new features, and a lot of improvements. It also represents a lot of fixes, contributions, and hard work. What a ride!

I still remember when we moved to JIRA in 2005. We were just getting ready to release OpenLaszlo 3.0. In fact, we were doing our second and final beta release in advance of OpenLaszlo 3.0. The very first JIRA task we filed was to implement dynamic libraries (LPP-1), followed by the implementation of SOLO mode (LPP-2) or serverless deployment as we called it back then. We've come so far!

From then until now, over 6 years have passed and OpenLaszlo has been fortunate to have the expertise and contributions of so many talented developers and contributors. To all of you out there that have supported OpenLaszlo and come along for the ride - thank you!

And now, it's onward to HTML5... and another 10,000.

Newest Addition to Showcase Applications: OpenMeetings

OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to
instantly set up a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone
or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or
record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and
install a package on your server with no limitations in usage or
users.

Check it out at http://www.openmeetings.de

We've been updating the OpenLaszlo Showcase with new applications submitted by OpenLaszlo users (see http://www.openlaszlo.org/showcase). We've added three new applications, and if you haven't already seen them, they are definitely worth a look:

PROTOGYM: an online personal training and exercise management solution developed in OpenLaszlo featuring intelligent automatic workout generation, historical data tracking and trending, integrated equipment inventories, and detailed videos and instructions for over 600 exercises.

ISCOPE: a web developing agency located in Osnabrück, Germany using OpenLaszlo for small widgets, tool development, and websites, such as a fully functional ERP/Enterprise Resource Management that is also modular and multilingual.

DCM-A: a company specializing in medical informatics, created a medical images viewer in OpenLaszlo that conforms to the DICOM protocol and works in web environments, as well as on mobile or desktop devices.

OpenLaszlo 4.9 is now available for download at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.9 is a significant release along the path to Openlaszlo 5.0, which is the upcoming release with newly redesigned components. OpenLaszlo 4.9 contains over 160 bug fixes and implements the infrastructure to support the new components. It also provides new features for creating and deploying mobile applications.

To see the complete list of fixes, refer to the JIRA 4.9 Release notes for details.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull, whose numerous bug fixes and exacting techical reviews make OpenLaszlo more robust. We also want to thank Ono Keiji, Jaco Botha, Alexander Pakhunov, Chen Ding, Clint Dickson, Gioacchino Mazzurco, John Olmstead, Justin Hunt, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini, Raju Bitter, and Rami Ojares, who took the time to isolate and report important bugs for us to address in this release. Thank you! We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes, helping users on the OpenLaszlo forums, and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.

OpenLaszlo 4.8.1 is now available for download at http://www.openlaszlo.org/download.

OpenLaszlo 4.8.1 is an incremental release of OpenLaszlo 4, and contains almost 20 bug fixes (see the JIRA report 4.8 Release Notes for details). In addition to the bug fixes, two new features have been added: support for incremental compilation for SWF10 applications; and a compiler option that lets you store pre-compiled platform-specific object code for both the DHTML and SWF10 runtime in a binary library format.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull, whose numerous bug fixes and exacting techical reviews make OpenLaszlo more robust. We also want to thank Ono Keiji, Jaco Botha, Alexander Pakhunov, Chen Ding, Clint Dickson, Gioacchino Mazzurco, John Olmstead, Justin Hunt, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini, Raju Bitter, and Rami Ojares, who took the time to isolate and report important bugs for us to address in this release. Thank you! We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes, helping users on the OpenLaszlo forums, and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.8.0 is available for download here.

OpenLaszlo 4.8.0 is an incremental release of OpenLaszlo 4, and contains 152 bug fixes (see the JIRA report 4.8 Release Notes for details). There are a wide range of bug fixes, including CSS stylable canvas, more dynamic CSS support, the promotion of tooltip to an official component, improved drawview support, simpler association of CSS properties with attributes and an ability to provide a fallback value for CSS-styled attributes.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull, whose numerous bug fixes and exacting techical reviews make OpenLaszlo more robust. We also want to thank Alexander Pakhunov, Chen Ding, Clint Dickson, Gioacchino Mazzurco, John Olmstead, Justin Hunt, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini, Raju Bitter, and Rami Ojares, who took the time to isolate and report important bugs for us to address in this release. Thank you! We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes, helping users on the OpenLaszlo forums, and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.

We are pleased to announce that OpenLaszlo 4.7.2 is available and can be downloaded here: http://www.openlaszlo.org/download

OpenLaszlo 4.7.2 is a bug fix release to OpenLaszlo 4.7.1, and contains 5 important community bug fixes and a new feature adding Silence Level and Timeout attributes to microphone (see the JIRA report 4.7.2 Fixed Bugs for details.

In addition, for OpenLaszlo 4.7.2 and the trunk development branch we have updated our build tools. If you are building from source, then you will need to do the same. Please see the OpenLaszlo wiki page, SubversionBuildInstructions, for updated instructions.

OpenLaszlo continues to be grateful for the significant contributions by André Bargull and Raju Bitter. You guys are amazing - thank you! In addition, we want to thank Cem Sonmez for helping us isolate issues on Linux. Thanks for filing detailed bug reports, creating test apps, and helping us resolve these important bugs. We would also like to thank the entire OpenLaszlo community for your support in so many ways, like submitting bug fixes and participating in discussions to help make OpenLaszlo a better platform.

Check out the latest scoop in the April 14th edition of the OpenLaszlo <view>:

http://www.openlaszlo.org/misc/OpenLaszloView041410.pdf

Check out the latest installment of the OpenLaszlo :
http://www.openlaszlo.org/misc/OpenLaszloView032910.pdf