History: Openfire

Openfire Meetings is a real-time communication server implementing the XMPP and WebRTC protocols with a SIP gateway. It offers a very large number of features and a great admin panel and source code is available under the Apache 2.0 license. It includes Jitsi Meet.

Key features

• Full standard XMPP feature set
  • Presence
  • Store and send offline messages
  • Server to server messages
  • XEP-0136: Message Archiving
  • Multi-device
  • XEP-280 message carbons
  • File transfer
• WebRTC videoconference (Now for Chrome only, soon for Firefox)
  • Web chat interface
  • Screen sharing
  • Active speaker identification
• General
  • Encryption (done by clients)
  • Runs on standard GNU/Linux server (and even Windows)
  • OpenLDAP user integration available
  • Some users can be in a browser and others with an XMPP client
  • Web-based admin panel
• Meeting planner (email notifications of upcoming meetings)
• Fastpath (managed queued chat requests, such as a support team might use)
• PDF Presentations
• Collaborative drawing (whiteboard)
• Collaborative text editing (alpha)
• Co-Browsing
• SIP integration: Phone-in & call out phone numbers to the conference
• Recording a conference (Beta)
• Remote Control of keyboard and mouse (Alpha)
• Copy-Paste (Alpha)

Learn more

• Openfire Meetings Documentation
• https://github.com/igniterealtime/community-plugins/blob/master/ofmeet/readme.md
• How to install Openfire Meetings on ClearOS
• igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire
• Openfire Meetings Plugin
• Openfire Meetings Plugin source code
• Openfire, wikipedia.org.
• Openfire, openhub.net.
• https://suite.tiki.org/Openfire
• dev:Openfire