Web conferencing

Web conferencing

Apache OpenMeetings: Open source web conferencing http://openmeetings.apache.org/ Links to an external site.

offering:

  • Audio and Video Conferencing
  • Meeting recording and Screen sharing
  • File Explorer (managed folders in each conference room)
  • Moderating System
  • Multi-Whiteboard and Chat
  • User and room management
  • Private message center
  • Plan meetings with integrated calendar
  • Conduct polls and votes on issues
  • Backup all user generated content into a single ZIP file

Transcript

[slide452] Apache has a system called OpenMeetings. It's an open source web conferencing system. It supports all kinds of interesting things. And you can grab it all, download it, try it out. But it's sort of interesting to me that it includes all kinds of things that you'd really want, like integrated calendars, being able to conduct polls and votes and things like that, and take all the user-generated conference content, zip it all into a file, and be able to save it. Because in many organizations, there's a very important need to be able to log all of this information and be able to go back. What did we discuss? When was this idea first presented? You may have a patent battle where you have to show, hey, we had this idea on this particular date and time, and you want to establish that.