About Us
Learn more about OpenMeeting Technologies’ journey to help modernize local government meetings.
OpenMeeting is on a mission to help local governments modernize their meetings.
Our fresh take on agenda & minutes management, meeting management, and streaming software is purpose-built with local government in mind.
We created this modern evolution of meeting software to make your job easier, streamline your meetings, and improve the public experience.
Our History
Key Milestones
OpenMeeting Technologies is Founded
Government meetings deserved better.
We saw a space dominated by outdated technology, complicated legacy systems, and expensive solutions that weren’t built for the way modern governments work.
We believed there was an opportunity to create something new, innovative, and intuitive—at a fair price for governments of every size.
OpenMeeting Technologies was founded with one mission: Help local governments modernize their meetings.
Modernizing Meeting Processes
OpenMeeting launches the first and only legislative meeting app: The Member App.
Instead of relying on outdated voting hardware and manual processes, governing body members could use their own devices for electronic roll call, motions and seconds, request-to-speak, and voting—bringing a faster, simpler, more modern experience into the meeting room.
It was the first major step toward rethinking how legislative meetings could work.
Transforming Public Comment
OpenMeeting launches Public Comment Sign-Up, giving governments a more organized and efficient way to manage public participation.
Residents can easily register to speak online at home or at a kiosk at the meeting location, while clerks and meeting staff gain a streamlined way to organize speakers and keep public comment moving smoothly.
Another traditionally manual meeting process becomes modern and streamlined.
Reinventing Agenda Management & Broadcasting
Our customers kept asking us for more.
They wanted the same modern OpenMeeting experience they loved during the meeting brought to agenda and minutes management—and to meeting streaming.
So we decided not to simply build another version of the systems that already existed.
We set out to break the rules and barriers of traditional agenda management and reinvent what the experience could be.
In 2026, OpenMeeting launches its next generation of Agenda & Minutes Management and Government-Grade Streaming, expanding OpenMeeting into a complete solution for the entire meeting lifecycle.
From creating the agenda and running the meeting to publishing minutes and broadcasting meetings to the public, governments can now manage it all through one modern platform.
One platform. Complete control. Total transparency.
Our Guiding Principles
Stronger (and Better) Together
At OpenMeeting, we rely on our team of dedicated professionals to put your needs first. Together, we form a core group that’s the heart-and-soul of our operational crew.
With seamless synchronicity, we deliver a certain kind of “tech magic” in the form of a legislative meeting software solution.
Customer Experience
At OpenMeeting, our focus is on our customers. Customer experience is at the core of our culture. This customer-centric approach involves frequent communication, ongoing surveys, as well as a strong service and support mentality.
We focus on complete transparency and accountability. We organize our business and our teams to provide the highest levels of service.
Our Core Values
At OpenMeeting, our values are customer-oriented and team-driven. We’ve built a positive team of professionals, who are dedicated and passionate about delivering the best possible product to our clients.
Trust
We build trust with our clients and each other, with sincerity of character, respect, open communication, and consistent follow-through.
Teamwork
We learn from each other’s expertise – from our internal team and clients. We support and develop our people, and our teams collaborate to do what is best for OpenMeeting and our clients. We take pride in knowing that our team is helping yours.
Innovation
We promote bold ideas that challenge the status quo. We celebrate curiosity, embrace change, and seek to drive innovation that serves local government for the benefit of all. Our company culture embraces creativity and diversity.
Integrity
We approach our work, our clients, and each other with integrity and accountability because it is who we are and values we embody. Our team is dedicated to open, honest and ethical business practices.
Our Service Philosophy
Service is at the heart of what we do. OpenMeeting is a software company that focuses on service, training, and support. At OpenMeeting, our focus is on delivering unparalleled customer service to our clients.
Our Customer Success Team orchestrates everything from initial onboarding through to the first meeting launch.
We offer hands-on training and support to ensure that every step of the implementation process is easy and successful.
OpenMeeting strives to be known as a leading customer service company – that also happens to provide the best gavel-to-gavel legislative meeting software.
What Makes OpenMeeting Unique
WYSIWYN (What You See is What You Need) Interface
Our interface provides each user (whether voting members, the clerk or secretary, or observers) exactly what they need when they need it.
Users report that our WYSIWYN interface reduces training time by 2/3!
Functionality Tailored for Efficient Legislative Meetings
Our systems have been used in over 10,000 legislative settings, and our staff has personally been involved in hundreds of these meetings. This direct “eyes on” approach has allowed us to identify, anticipate, and design for the functionality needed to deliver more productive and efficient meetings.
A meeting time reduction of 50% is not unusual. On August 21, 2018, a client with 25 voting members conducted two roll call votes within 48 seconds!
Easy Integration with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Components
We leverage the investments you’ve already made in technology and training. For example, our voting app runs on Android, iOS, and Windows 10 devices – or a combination of them.
A standard Windows PC is all that’s required for the Meeting Manager program the clerk uses to run a meeting. This approach minimizes the support impact of adopting our systems.
Get In Touch
Ready to modernize your legislative meetings? Talk to one of our experts and see if OpenMeeting is a fit for you.