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by mindcrime 3956 days ago
Anything similar (open source / on premises) for video and desktop sharing?

Apache OpenMeetings gets you part of the way there. Unfortunately the UI is Flash based, and it looks a bit outdated. But it is usable, and supports audio, video, shared whiteboading, etc.

Not sure what the latest plans are among the core project maintainers, as far as getting away from the Flash interface. But if they aren't planning to do anything, I might take a stab at it. If anybody is interested in helping with something like that, ping me.

Anyway, if you want to take a look, we keep an instance running on one of our demo servers:

http://demo2.fogbeam.org

You can login with username "kflynn" and password "secret". Registering a new account probably won't work, as I don't have the email support fully configured, so I don't think you'll get the verification link if you try to register.

I'm sitting in one of the rooms now if anybody wants to chat, so they can actually see this work. Just login and then go to

http://demo2.fogbeam.org:5080/openmeetings/#room/42

Edit: New user registration is fully setup now, so feel free to create your own account if you want to play around with this for a while.