Matrix with the Jitsi meet plugin.
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I already made a comment but you should also look at rocketchat and revolt, since they are basically FOSS discord clones
(I saw comments in the thread about wanting audio only calls.)
I've been using self-hosted Jitsi Meet for a few weeks now. Works perfectly. Haven't tried the calendar feature, though.
I use jami but i dont think it fits your need for guess links.
Still leave it here just in case
Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software.
Jami is a stability and security nightmare
I wouldn't recommend it
Please tell us more about the actual security problems!
Have you actually dug into the internals? It is pretty bad. Large poorly maintained code base with poor cryptography. Theoretically it is fine but I'd rather use Signal.
No, I rarely read the code of software I use, especially crypto code since thant's not my thing. But good to know that you did. Thanks for your opinion.
It's true there are a lot of better alternatives to jami when it comes to privacy/security: Here's a good comparison table:
Im using it for 3 months now and I did not notice any stability issue. One time I experienced a long delay in receiving a message.
Do you have any details on why its a security nightmare?
All communications are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted.
It is a massive code base which doesn't seem to get a lot of maintenance due to lack of developers. Jami also lacks a security audit which doesn't build confidence
From a security perspective it uses dTLS which isn't great for metadata sensitive applications. Message delivery is also finicky since it depends on peers working reliably.
Care to expand on that? I am seriously considering that as part of my post-skype future.
I would look into Jami, Signal and maybe Simplex Chat
If you don't mind seperated tools that do well in their own :
- Zulip for chat
- Jitsi for video meeting
- And whatever calendar you want for the calendar
Huly is pretty amazing and has a self host option. It supports chats and video calls, team rooms, and has some cool integration for speech to text note taking. It also functions as a task tracker.
Under super active development right now so host only if you can deal with occasional breaking changes.
Cloud based solutions in selfhosted are a hilarious suggestion.
I'm selfhosting it on box next to me. Wasn't so hard for me to find the GitHub link on their website.
Considering
- nearly a
curl|shsetup - to run supply-chain risks
- of supply-chain risks
- for something without an immutable artefact and thus is its own supply-chain risk
It's already breaking ISO27002 in a few ways. I'm out.
Idk, I've heard things about HooliChat... Didn't their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?
Plus that Gavin Belson guy keeps trying to jam his horrible signature into his products.
That guy is the woooorst
What's their revenue model? Thanks for sharing
They have a SaaS option as well, I'm guessing that's the main revenue plan.
Element Server Suite Community https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm
I would suggest avoiding anything that is a "community" or "personal use only". If its not fully open its not worth it.
You want either mattermost or the whole matrix stack (backend, plus element with voice/video calls).
Matrix/Element is more of a discord alternative, whereas mattermost tries to be more of a slack alternative, where it seems to have some calendar integrations.
I haven’t tried it myself but Mattermost offers most of what you’re looking for.
I think a gitlab install has most of mattermost inside it, and that means installation and updates are handled. I found the install of MatterMost via its devs used to be very naive, but the gitlab people did something right in vendoring it into their massive install. Gitlab-ce is bloated as heck, but it's fire-and-forget on the proper platform and may allow inter-org linking with or without the matter bridge thing (which itself affords some interoperability).
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