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

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


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

"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/)

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.


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?

But they hosted the repo on Microsoft-run GitHub ...

The public-facing mirror :-)


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.)


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

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-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.



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.

The Jitsi site says rocket.chat uses it.

I guess Jitsi?

https://meet.proton.me should also be ready for action soon.

This seems good


I think it would be completely usable by end of next year? so excited!!


I hope uBlock will support Servo if `webRequestBlocking` is implemented like in Firefox.


They can detain whoever they suspect of being illegal immigrant


because saudi already pays them. Saudi is already in their control. Iran isnt so they are plotting a regime change there too, use your brain.


based


market is stupid concept.


It’s very common for dictators to call people stupid as an excuse for their power abuse.


market is not people


For real??


fuck iqoo


Amen to that. Wish I knew better before I got mine.


outrage works


Outrage works when the party in government doesn't have an outright majority in parliament.


deno won, rust won


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