OpenSlides: Free Open Source Meeting Management Platform

Quick Overview

The video demonstrates a complete setup and configuration workflow for the OpenSlides open-source meeting management platform, covering initial cloud deployment via Elestio, system settings configuration, tag creation, committee and conference setup, agenda item creation, and projector usage.

Key Points: OpenSlides was successfully deployed on a dedicated virtual machine using the Elestio cloud platform, which handles installation, backups, and maintenance. Initial system configuration involved renaming the organization to "Elestio Conferences" and setting the language to English within the settings menu. Custom tags ("Tech", "Marketing", "Sales") were created and assigned to the new "Elestio" committee to categorize organizational units. A new conference, "Elestio tech 42 conference," was created with a defined date (November 5th to 11th, 2025) and tagged with "Tech." An agenda item titled "Discuss about AI" was added to the conference, illustrating how to structure meeting content. The projector feature was demonstrated, showing the live view of the conference title and the ability to display custom messages like "Wifi access data" with integrated timers.

Context: This video functions as a comprehensive tutorial demonstrating the end-to-end process of setting up and configuring the OpenSlides open-source meeting management software. The process begins with provisioning the application on a cloud provider (Elestio) and then navigates through the administrative interface of OpenSlides to customize organizational settings, define structure (committees, tags, conferences), and prepare content (agenda, motions, elections) for a running event.

Detailed Analysis

The demonstration starts by showing the deployment of OpenSlides using Elestio, a platform that manages the installation and maintenance of over 350 open-source applications. After deployment, the user accesses the OpenSlides administration panel. The first configuration steps involve navigating to Settings (2:23) to change the organization's name to "Elestio Conferences" and verifying language settings. Next, the user creates custom tags ("Tech," "Marketing," "Sales") in the Tags section (2:43) to categorize items. A new committee named "Elestio" is created and tagged with these categories (3:25). A new conference, "Elestio tech 42 conference," is then created (3:50), tagged with "Tech" (4:01), and assigned a date range (4:06). The video then moves to the Projector view (4:56), which shows the current display item ("Wifi access data"). The presenter shows how to use the integrated timers (5:14) and how to push custom messages to the projector display (5:21). Finally, the video briefly covers the Agenda creation process (5:56), showing how to add a topic like "Discuss about AI" (6:00), and touches upon the Motions and Elections sections, concluding by referencing the documentation for importing participants (7:53).