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clot27 | 27 days ago

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

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wongarsu|27 days 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

saubeidl|27 days ago

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

euio757|27 days 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/)

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.

fpoling|27 days ago

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

rectang|27 days 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.)

philipwhiuk|27 days ago

https://www.rocket.chat/

Etheryte|27 days 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|27 days ago

The Jitsi site says rocket.chat uses it.