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Rooms can be of 3 different types: 1) «Conference» - with equal permissions for all participants (up to 32 persons), 2) «Webinar» - with limited permissions for video and moderation (up to 100 persons), c) «Interview» - with two video windows (up to 2 persons). When planning a meeting via calendar a room of selected type is created on the server automatically. All 3 types of public rooms are available on the demo server.

After entering the room user see several main components (Fig. 2):

1. whiteboard to draw, write, upload pictures, video and documents in popular office formats (compatible with OpenOffice); it can be several boards in one room;
2. whiteboard whiteboard bar to create several whiteboards for different purposes;
3. toolbar and related properties pop-up window for whiteboard.
4. video windows of all conference participants on top of white board, which can be easily moved elsewhere;
5. top menu for management user actions and rights;
6. panel of participants/documents and recordings lists;
7. panels for chat, activities and actions.

Room provides the following functional set:

• multimedia (audio and video) data transmission;
• whiteboard for teamwork with documents, images, video;
• screen sharing: one of the participants in virtual room can share his desktop screen with the others of web conference;
• chatcommon and private;
• polls for participants' voting and publication of the results;
• management of user permissions inside a room.

One can go to the dashboard or directly into the room also by following a link from any site or portal integrated with OM. More details about integration are described below.

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Fig.2 Web conference room view