GnomeMeeting is a videoconferencing, telephony and soft phone software that allow you to make audio and video calls to remote users. It supports all the modern videoconferencing features, such as gatekeeper support, making multi-user conference calls, using modern Quick net telephony cards, and making PC-to-phone calls. It is Free Software, which means, it can easily be downloaded and used from the Internet.

The minimum system requirements for using GnomeMeeting are:
· A correctly configured firewall and NAT router/gateway
· Having a headset is recommended if you want to prevent echo. However, a web cam with an internal microphone or a separate microphone will also work.
GnomeMeeting supports H.323, which is the major protocol for VoIP, IP Telephony and videoconferencing. It is compatible with all H.323 soft phones and hardware IP Phones. A few examples are MyPhone, Netmeeting, CuSeeMe, OpenPhone, SJPhone, and SwissVoice IP Phones etc.

Following are some of the features of GnomeMeeting:
· H.323v4 compliant
· Gatekeeper (RAS) client support, with Broadcast and Multicast Discovery
· Gateway/proxy support
· Call Monitoring
· PC-To-Phone Calls
· Configurable Port Ranges
· E.164, URL, or IP address dialing
· Transparent NAT support, assisted NAT support (STUN, IP Translation)
· Audio and Video Call Mute
· IPv4 and IPv6

Damien Sandras is the creator of this software, initiated this project on December 25, 2000. Cédric Valcke did the web design and a large part of the PHP code of this software.