Chamilo LMS 1.9.8 comes with an OpenMeetings plugin. This means that you can organize OpenMeetings videoconference rooms directly from your Chamilo courses.
Now this setup requires a few essential things. The 2 most important are: a working installation of Chamilo (referenced as [C] below) and a working installation of OpenMeetings (referenced as [OM] below), then you need to have:
- [CH] php5-curl extension installed and running
- [OM] a user with web services privileges
- [CH] to configure host, user and password (or salt) inside the “plugins” section, button “Configure” of the OpenMeetings plugin
This is pretty much it, but if you are missing one of these, that won’t work!
Prettty simple, indeed, and it works fine. The difficult part is about getting a stable openmeetings server. I followed the three steps listed there http://openmeetings.apache.org/installation.html . It was quite easy to do but I’m not sure of the stability.