[ghostwreck]

I love using Slack and have been looking for an open source alternative. This sounds great! Anything similar (open source / on premises) for video and desktop sharing? I am trying to get away from Skype or Google Hangouts in the same way.

[sytse]

We have not found anything good for video calling. Not open source but also not closed source. Still using Hangouts that uses a lot of CPU with Chrome on OSX (tip: use Safari to force another codec).

[randall]

FWIW you should look into Kurento. It's kind of a pain to set up, but would likely do the job.

kurento.org

OSS and all that.

[sytse]

Thanks, looks interesting!

[mindcrime]

Anything similar (open source / on premises) for video and desktop sharing?

Apache OpenMeetings gets you part of the way there. Unfortunately the UI is Flash based, and it looks a bit outdated. But it is usable, and supports audio, video, shared whiteboading, etc.

Not sure what the latest plans are among the core project maintainers, as far as getting away from the Flash interface. But if they aren't planning to do anything, I might take a stab at it. If anybody is interested in helping with something like that, ping me.

Anyway, if you want to take a look, we keep an instance running on one of our demo servers:

http://demo2.fogbeam.org

You can login with username "kflynn" and password "secret". Registering a new account probably won't work, as I don't have the email support fully configured, so I don't think you'll get the verification link if you try to register.

I'm sitting in one of the rooms now if anybody wants to chat, so they can actually see this work. Just login and then go to

http://demo2.fogbeam.org:5080/openmeetings/#room/42

Edit: New user registration is fully setup now, so feel free to create your own account if you want to play around with this for a while.

[langolier]

There is https://jitsi.org/ (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi)

[quadrangle]

specifically Jitsi Meet https://meet.jit.si/ is the important thing

[arcameron]

A while back I wrote https://echoplex.us, which had video/voice WebRTC calling

Now, I've mostly abandoned the project

It may be something for you to check out

[JoeAltmaier]

Sococo RocketShorts can support dozens of simultaneous audio/video/screenshare clients/conversations in the same area. I'm not sure what their source policy is...

[engelgabriel]

Have you seen https://rocket.chat ?

[Nutomic]

https://tox.im/ does that.