Templating and provisioning of collaborative facilities for a data-agnostic collaboration service

A server comprising:

• a collaboration service module operable to provide collaboration services over a network interface;
• a room library stored on a data storage medium accessible by the server, the room library operable to store a collaboration room, the collaboration room being a virtual meeting place for a plurality of users and including at least one of the collaboration services provided by the collaboration service module to facilitate collaboration between the plurality of users;
• a collaboration room template library stored on a data storage medium accessible by the server, the collaboration room template library operable to store a collaboration room template, the collaboration room template including a copy of state information for a previously created collaboration room stored in the room library, the state information including a plurality of configuration settings associated with the previously created collaboration room;
• an application programming interface module hosted on the server and operable to receive instructions to create a new collaboration room to be stored in the room library;
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• a collaboration room generating module hosted on the server and operable to generate the new collaboration room based on the collaboration room template stored in the collaboration room template library.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, with instructions which when processed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a first request to create a collaboration room, the collaboration room being a virtual meeting place for a plurality of users and including a collaboration service to facilitate collaboration between the plurality of users;
• creating the collaboration room that includes state information, wherein the state information includes a plurality of configuration settings associated with the collaboration room;
• receiving a second request to create a collaboration room template based on the state information of the collaboration room;
• generating the collaboration room template using the state information of the collaboration room;
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• storing the collaboration room template in a data storage;
• receiving a third request from a client application to create an additional collaboration room based on the collaboration room template;
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• creating the additional collaboration room based on the collaboration room template.