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Apache OpenMeetings - Features and overview
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Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging,
white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware
tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting
and Streaming.
OpenMeetings is a project of the Apache, 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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News
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Version 2.2.0 released! See Downloads page.
(2013-12-12)
Version 2.1.1 released! See Project Blog or Downloads page.
(2013-07-06)
OpenMeetings 2.1.0 is released! Please check Downloads page.
(2013-04-01)
OpenMeetings new URL, update your filters!
openmeetings.apache.org is the new home.
(2013-01-28)
OpenMeetings on the road to graduate from the Incubator
at our blog
(2012-12-07)
Some slides from our Fast Feather Track at the ApacheCon Europe 2012
at our blog
(2012-11-18)
Update: Builds are available at
builds.apache.org
(2012-08-03)
Version 2.0 released
(2012-07-26)
New committer: Timur Tleukenov (2012-03-06)
Demo
server
updated to r1236172 (2012-01-26)
New committer: German Grekhov (2011-12-26)
OpenMeetings has been accepted into the Apache Incubator
(2011-11-12).
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Feature details
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Audio and Video Conferencing
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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 change video-/audio-quality, choose multiple
camera resolutions (4:3, 16:9 or 3:2)
and choose your input devices.
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Meeting recording and Screen sharing
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- 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 AVI/FLV files.
- Possibility to select a screen area for sharing.
- Different quality steps for Screensharing.
- Watch and organize recordings in an integrated Drag and Drop
File-Explorer
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File Explorer
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Advanced File-Explorer in every conference room, Drag and Drop
interface for managing 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 loggedin. 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.
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Moderating System
Multi-Whiteboard and Chat
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Multi-Whiteboard, you can add new whiteboard instances, each
white
board can have the full range of tools and documents 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 organized like any other document,
image or folder.
White board with drawing, writing, Drag n' Drop, Resizing, Images
(Drag n'
Drop from File-Explorer), Symbol(s)/Cliparts .
Full-fit does rescale the document on the screen to be 100% visible
on all
screens no matter what kind of screen resolution different
users
have.
You can import from a wide range of document formats (PDF, DOC,
ODT, PPT, et cetera...)
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User and room management
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You can manage users and multiple organizations 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.
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Private message center
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Send users messages and organize them in folders. You can book
conference rooms by sending private messages. The booked event
automatically is in your and the participants calendar, changes to
that event will be populated to all users booked to the event.
User contacts, you can search users and add them to your contacts.
You
can even give them the right to see your calendar.
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Plan meetings with integrated calendar
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- 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 link with a secure hash to the conference
room.
- Share your calendar with your contacts.
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Polls and Votes
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You can create a poll with yes/no or 1-10 questions, let the
user
vote and see the voting results.
Polls can be stored and results viewed as pie-chart
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Backup
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You can backup all user-generated data including files
uploaded by the users in a single ZIP file and import that ZIP into
a new installation of OpenMeetings again.
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