Dimdim:The worlds freeweb confrencing company
Dimdim is an open source initiative that provides a web confrencing solution. In this post we try to meet DD Ganguly, one of the founders and presently CEO of DimDim. And the reason for selecting him, and i quote
" For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to be an entrepreneur. The problem was that no one in my middle-class Indian family had ever been a businessman. My family was not discouraging but the entire environment was. “Business is not for you”, is the mantra I heard growing up. Get security. Get a job, preferably a “secure” government job. Don’t take risks. These messages get into one’s psyche. And when I finally started my first business I found myself in the clutches of fear. I searched the libraries for a book on the subject of managing entrepreneurial fear but found nothing."
He did overcome his fears and start his company. What i found intresting was that they used the idea of community based product development from step one, including gathering of info about the required product. I am requesting DD Ganguly as is our custom. Hope he finds time to blog.
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www.Dimdim.com
posted by Author at 8:29 AM
1 Comments:
Dear Ajit,
Thanks for your post. You had asked about how the company works. It’s really very simple: great team and a compelling vision.
The vision for Dimdim is simple: we see a world in which organizations of all sizes will have access to web collaboration software. We have started this journey with a focus on web meeting software that allows rich-media real-time collaboration.
Our Open source strategy enables us to distribute our technology pervasively. Our product has already been downloaded 7,800 times in just one and a half months. After the community downloads the product their feedback about the product is even more valuable. Community members report bugs, submit feature requests, and delve into the code to point out why the software behaves in a certain manner.
The relationship with the community is exhilarating. We feel that we are part of a much larger team – the Dimdim Team.
Best wishes.
ddg
btw, I don’t think that I am an interesting person at all.
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