With the amazing shortage of articles showing how one would get their Gnomemeeting configured to ‘actually work’, this information is definitely very welcomed. From what I am reading here though, it appears that this program is a lot more than just a run of the mill video-conferencing client.

I’ve finally gotten around to trying GnomeMeeting, the Internet phone/video conferencing tool written by Damien Sandras in 2000. GnomeMeeting, the open source community’s answer to Microsoft’s NetMeeting, works well, with good voice and video quality.

GnomeMeeting is now at the 1.2 release, and is available in distribution-specific binaries for Debian, Fedora Core 2, Slackware, Mandrake, and SUSE. The source code is available as well, if your distro isn’t included in that list.

One of the reasons I’ve been so long in trying GnomeMeeting is that I’ve found Web cameras in general to be somewhat problematic with Linux over the years. But that’s not a good reason to shy away from GnomeMeeting. First, video is not required; it’s an option. Second, Web cams are a lot less problematic with Linux than they used to be.

Before installing Gnome Meeting, you’ll need to have OpenH323, OpenLDAP, and PWLib (also available on the OpenH323 site) installed.

If you choose to compile GnomeMeeting yourself, you might save yourself some time by referring to the configure options for the various packages required noted in the FAQ.