As previously mentioned here, Cornell is arranging to release source code for CU-SeeMe with both free, non-comercial licensing and commercial licensing through a Master Licensee.
Free versions of the program will continue to be developed, as in the past, but now we can look forward to commercially enhanced and supported (but interoperable) versions for those who will prefer to have that option.
Cornell University in conjunction with White Pine Software will be making a joint announcement LIVE over the Internet. Cornell has selected White Pine as master licensee for commercial development of Cornell's CU-SeeMe Desktop Video Conferencing technology. To bring this event to everyone who may be interested, we will be setting up a reflector network to carry the announcement as well as some other parts of the Desktop Videoconferencing Conference in San Francisco next week.
Incidently, we need some reflector sites willing to help. If you are interested in hooking in a Reflector, please send email to John Lynn, jal7@cornell.edu.
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In San Fransicso from May 2nd to May 4th White Pine will be participating in the DVC (Desktop Video Conference) Technical Seminar & Exhibition in San Francisco. During the show we will announce the details of our partnership with Cornell and their Video Conferencing Cu-SeeMe technology.
At the conference we plan to use CU-SeeMe to broadcast the news to the Internet community. We will have an Internet onramp on the show floor and in a Technical Conference room. The technology allows for us to set in place a number of group conferencing sites over the Internet to which users will be able to connect to watch and listen to the following events:
This session reviews some of the problems application developers will encounter in bringing up conferencing software.* 12:30 pm -> 1:15 pm PST:
* Watch a press presentation and demo announcing White Pine's entrance into the Video Conferencing field with Cornell University. During the demo White Pine will conference with Cornell to discuss the technology with Richard Cogger, creater of the technology.* 1:30 pm -> 4:00 pm PST: Watch the DVC technical program:
* Applications from Kiosks to Classrooms: The technology for videoconferencing, as the presenters in this session will illustrate, lends itself to much more than desk-to-desk applications.
* Connect to White Pine's site to watch and collaborate with participants at the DVC show.
The exact times and events may change and the Internet site names and ID's to conference to will be posted on White Pine's Home Page:
http://www.wpine.com/cuseeme.html