Ask YC: Free / Open Source Solution for online meetings

9 points by igorhvr 16y ago ↗ HN

While I worked at BigCo, we used a really nice tool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat_Connect) to have our online meetings - sharing the screen, with a small chat window, etc. I am trying to find something similar to this, but open source (preferably GPL'ed or under some more liberal license). The best I was able to find up to now was http://webhuddle.sourceforge.net - anyone has any recommendations?

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thorax 16y ago ↗

To be clear, did you specifically need the code so you could self-host/tweak or did you need a free service variant?

If you need services, one such free meeting service is dimdim.com.

For open source stuff I had heard of the old JWebPresenter (e.g. http://zhao.sourceforge.net/#introduction ), but I'm not sure what else is out there nowadays.

igorhvr 16y ago ↗

I want something I can self-host - both because of cost, and because I want to be able to tweak things as needed. I haven't looked at JWebPresenter before - thanks!

eitally 16y ago ↗

Open Meetings, hosted at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

It's ugly but it works, and it's free.

scrollinondubs 16y ago ↗

Ditto @thorax - check out Dimdim: http://www.dimdim.com

It's an Open Source virtual conferencing app comparable to Acrobat Connect (which we used to use as well). We make a JumpBox for it available here: http://jumpbox.com/app/dimdim

igorhvr 16y ago ↗

Nice. I discarded it because from the source forge page it looks like dead (no update since 2008 or so, according to the comments in http://sourceforge.net/projects/dimdim/ ).

I will re-consider it..

keefe 16y ago ↗

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC I've used this successfully with <whatever mac thing name is>