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so is there any open source alternative to these meeting apps? (selfhostable)

by clot27 8mo ago

arm32 8mo ago
I guess Jitsi?
- teekert 8mo ago
  https://meet.proton.me https://meet.proton.me should also be ready for action soon.
MengerSponge 8mo ago
Jitsi? https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
philipwhiuk 8mo ago
https://www.rocket.chat/ https://www.rocket.chat/
- Etheryte 8mo ago
  We used to run this back in the day which, granted, was quite a long time ago now. I don't think we ever went longer than a few months without a serious outage of sorts, and that certainly wasn't for a lack of resources or manpower.
- gilney 8mo ago
  The Jitsi site says rocket.chat uses it.
saubeidl 8mo ago
The French government built their own: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
- fpoling 8mo ago
  But they hosted the repo on Microsoft-run GitHub ...
  - saubeidl 8mo ago
    The public-facing mirror :-)
- euio757 8mo ago
  "built their own" wrapper yes (which is a very important piece of a end-to-end Zoom like product) But you can see: > Powered by [LiveKit](https://livekit.io/ https://livekit.io/) Fine since this is an open source product, but not full EU sovereignty of the software stack. Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version like so many products have done in the past. If a EU entity forks it and maintains it, then that'd be end-to-end sovereignty IMO.
  - saubeidl 8mo ago
    That might be true philosophically, but tactically it makes no sense to fork until a potential future license change. Why lose the free maintenance from upstream?
wongarsu 8mo ago
For Teams-like chat I really like Zulip. Which also integrates with Jitsi for video conferencing If you are hosting webinars there's also bigbluebutton
rectang 8mo ago
It's not open source, but up until a few years ago I used whereby.com for videochats. Unlike the alternatives at the time from Google, Apple, etc., it didn't require an account for participants — I could just give them the meeting room URL. So although it wasn't open source, it at least didn't lock you into a network. (Unlike you, I wasn't up for self-hosting.)
kofu 8mo ago
This one is often overlook but very good, I prefer it over Jitsi https://galene.org/ https://galene.org/
- internet_points 8mo ago
  what are the minimal server requirements? jitsi says prefer 8G ram (4G for small meetings) and 4 dedicated cpu cores https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-requirements/ https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu... The chat seems extremely basic, so not really an alternative if you need chat with e.g. message edit/delete/formatting/pictures as well as video/audio.

so is there any open source alternative to these meeting apps? (selfhostable)

by clot27 8mo ago

so is there any open source alternative to these meeting apps? (selfhostable)

arm32 8mo ago

I guess Jitsi?

teekert 8mo ago
https://meet.proton.me https://meet.proton.me should also be ready for action soon.

MengerSponge 8mo ago

Jitsi? https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

philipwhiuk 8mo ago

https://www.rocket.chat/ https://www.rocket.chat/

Etheryte 8mo ago
We used to run this back in the day which, granted, was quite a long time ago now. I don't think we ever went longer than a few months without a serious outage of sorts, and that certainly wasn't for a lack of resources or manpower.
gilney 8mo ago
The Jitsi site says rocket.chat uses it.

saubeidl 8mo ago

The French government built their own: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

fpoling 8mo ago
But they hosted the repo on Microsoft-run GitHub ...
- saubeidl 8mo ago
  The public-facing mirror :-)
euio757 8mo ago
"built their own" wrapper yes (which is a very important piece of a end-to-end Zoom like product) But you can see: > Powered by [LiveKit](https://livekit.io/ https://livekit.io/) Fine since this is an open source product, but not full EU sovereignty of the software stack. Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version like so many products have done in the past. If a EU entity forks it and maintains it, then that'd be end-to-end sovereignty IMO.
- saubeidl 8mo ago
  That might be true philosophically, but tactically it makes no sense to fork until a potential future license change. Why lose the free maintenance from upstream?

wongarsu 8mo ago

For Teams-like chat I really like Zulip. Which also integrates with Jitsi for video conferencing If you are hosting webinars there's also bigbluebutton

rectang 8mo ago

It's not open source, but up until a few years ago I used whereby.com for videochats. Unlike the alternatives at the time from Google, Apple, etc., it didn't require an account for participants — I could just give them the meeting room URL. So although it wasn't open source, it at least didn't lock you into a network. (Unlike you, I wasn't up for self-hosting.)

kofu 8mo ago

This one is often overlook but very good, I prefer it over Jitsi https://galene.org/ https://galene.org/

internet_points 8mo ago
what are the minimal server requirements? jitsi says prefer 8G ram (4G for small meetings) and 4 dedicated cpu cores https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-requirements/ https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu... The chat seems extremely basic, so not really an alternative if you need chat with e.g. message edit/delete/formatting/pictures as well as video/audio.