Electronic meetings, e.g., chat rooms and bulletin boards, can be more efficient and effective than traditional, oral discussions, but until only recently, online groups speaking many languages could not benefit from machine translation (MT). Although it is possible for linguists to provide translations for the group members as they read comments during a multilingual discussion, this is not feasible for large groups and many languages. As a solution, the authors propose a fully automated multilingual meeting system, and an example of its use in a meeting with comments typed in English translated to Dutch and Russian illustrates its potential to reduce many multinational communication barriers.