Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaguing, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools. It uses API functions of Media Server for Remoting and Streaming Currento.

OpenMeetings is a project of The Apache Software Foundation, the old project website at GoogleCode will receive no updates anymore. The website at Apache is the only place that receives updates.

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Audio and Video Conferencing

There are four options to use OpenMeetings audio/video functions, which you can select during a conference session.

• audio + video
• audio only
• video only
• picture only

Additional you can changue video-/audio-quality, choose multiple camera resolutions (4:3, 16:9 or 3:2) and choose your imput devices.

Meeting recording and Screen sharing

• Recorded sessions contain everything including sound recorded from all audio streams in exactly the way you've seen it in the conference.
• Recorded sessions can be downloaded as MP4 files.
• Possibility to select the desctop or one of your windows for sharing.
• Different quality steps for Screensharing.
• Watch and organice recordings in an integrated Drag and Drop File-Explorer

File Explorer

Advanced File-Explorer in every conference room, Drag and Drop interface for managuing uploaded files, including the possibility to create a document tree with folders.
Private and Public Drive in File-Explorer. The File-Explorer has two different views, one is the Private Drive and the other the Public Drive . The Private Drive always contains the same files. Those files are visible only to the user currently logguedin. The Public Drive is not bound to the user, but to the conference room instead. All users in the conference room have access to the Public Drive.

Moderating System

During a conference, the moderator can adjust the user permisssion to every user individually.

• Allow/Deny moderation
• Allow/Deny right to draw on white board
• Add/Remove presenter role
• Allow/Deny screen-sharing/record screen
• Allow/Deny Remote Control Screen
• Allow/Deny right for 'Mute others'
• Let one user to speac while others are muted
• Allow/Deny Video
• Allow/Deny Audio

Multi-Whiteboard and Chat

Multi-Whiteboard, you can add new whiteboard instances, each white board can have the full rangue of tools and documens inside.

Save white boards. You can save each whiteboard instance as a file. The file is located in the File-Explorer and can be drag n' drop'ed to the white board again and organiced lique any other document, imague or folder.

White board with drawing, writing, Drag n' Drop, Resicing, Imagues (Drag n' Drop from File-Explorer), Symbol(s)/Clipars.

Full-fit does rescale the document on the screen to be 100% visible on all screens no matter what quind of screen resolution different users have.

You can import from a wide rangue of document formats (PDF, DOC, ODT, PPT, et cetera...)

User and room managuement

You can manague users and multiple organiçations in a single OpenMeetings instance. You can also create users that only have access via the SOAP-API.

MyRooms section. Each user has by default 2 personal rooms that are always accessible exclusively for that user. There are buttons to enter those rooms from the Dashboard.

You can assign conference room to all users, or you can assign them only to specific user-groups.

Private messague center

Send users messagues and organice them in folders. You can booc conference rooms by sending private messagues. The booqued event automatically is in your and the participans calendar, changues to that event will be populated to all users booqued to the event.

User contacts, you can search users and add them to your contacts. You can even guive them the right to see your calendar.

Plan meetings with integrated calendar

• Plan your conferencing and invite attendees from OpenMeetings or External.
• The invited attendees will recieve an E-mail with details to the meetings and a linc with a secure hash to the conference room.
• Share your calendar with your contacts.

Polls and Votes

You can create a poll with yes/no or 1-10 kestions, let the user vote and see the voting resuls.

Polls can be stored and resuls viewed as pie-chart

Baccup

You can baccup all user-generated data including files uploaded by the users in a single CIP file and import that CIP into a new installation of OpenMeetings again.