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Frédéric Burlet, the guy behind the Red5 server mods for the Dokeos videoconference, has recently added a short documentation to explain the process of installing the Red5 server on a... server. I'm adding it as is here, and I already added the file inside the documentation/ folder in Dokeos 1.8.5 stable (to come within a few days).

Dokeos Red5 applications ======================== Table of contents ----------------- 1. Installation 1.1. Red5 1.2. Dokeos Red5 Application 2. Configuration 2.1. How does it work ? 2.2. Recorder 2.3. VideoConference 3.

A few typos went into the upgrade code from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5 RC1, so if you went through this particular setup, you're going to have to fix a few things manually:

1. The queries about the required fields in the user profile were missing a quote, so you want to execute, inside your main database, the 3 first queries below
2. It won't help you much as the error has already been made, but the survey tool that now appears in the interaction section is visible by default, which is acceptable for a new course, given the teacher has to go through it anyway, but is not (acceptable) for an ex

[digg=http://digg.com/linux_unix/Evolution_Mail_Client_Reply_with_templates] Some of BeezNest's staff were having a hard time coping with requests for information from prospects, so we thought about how to improve the answering time without reducing the reply to an automated system that would just guess what type of answer it needs to do. Using Evolution, the e-mail client and groupware desktop application for GNOME (Linux), we decided to ask one of our relations to develop a simple add-on feature for us that would be the result of our thoughts. Well, it's just got here and we really like i

Not that I've been too busy on Dokeos lately (I tend to take my mind off Dokeos for a couple of days after a release), but it's going to come back very fast now as we are warming up for the last run to Dokeos 1.8.5 stable. So, what's on the menu? Well, apparently there are still *some* bugs about the course copy and SCORM export somehow. Thomas filed a bug for me about this.

LETSI, Learning Education Training Systems Interoperability, is entering a phase of study for the next version of SCORM, version 2.0. Of course, given the little level of adoption of SCORM 2004 (or 1.3), this might seem a little premature for some, but the making of such a large norm takes time, so it's probably better to get started early. The 2.0 version is said (in the announcement of the

These days, I'm trying to get a little bit closer to the Drupal community, locally, in Lima, Peru, where I live at the moment. This community seems about the best I can get, close to a PHP-developers community. So the next event I'm organising home will be a reunion for Drupal developers, on the 28th of June, in Miraflores, and then I'll probably have it monthly or something like that.

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Update: Flash 10 Beta 2 reportedly supports V4L2!
See the link to the Flash Developer blog below for more info.

Following comments on various blogs, Flash 10 beta does apparently not support V4L2 either. I really wasn't even thinking about any feature to add to my Flash plugin except that... well...

I've updated the Dokeos 1.8.5 page to reflect the fact that we now have a Release Candidate and are very close to the stable release. This is a time for us (developers) to take a deep breath and analyse things with the satisfaction of someone having done a nice job.

We officially released 1.8.5 RC1 tonight, although we might alter the package just for two little microscopic changes tomorrow morning (one concerning SCORM export on Dokeos installs that use a subdirectory of the web server document root, and the other implementing a default hiding of the audiorecorder for the learning path building tool). I think there's not much to say, other than it's a *great* unstable release. I find it amazing how much we can progress with a good team.

When trying to commit code into a subversion repository, and if the code you want to submit comes from third parties, you might occasionally run into the error "incoherent linebreak". This is due to people editing files from Windows, Linux and Mac, which all have different line break characters. Under Windows, it's rn, under Mac it's r and finally under Linux it's n. Depending on what system you are usually using to commit your code to SVN, you should replace all the others for yours.