Galene (or Galène) is a videoconference server (an “SFU”) that is easy to deploy and that requires very moderate server resources. It was originally designed for lectures, conferences and student tutorials, but later turned out to be useful for traditional meetings. Galene has been used in production at two major universities (Université de Paris and Sorbonne Université) for lectures, practicals, seminars, and for staff meetings
Galene’s server side is implemented in Go, and uses the Pion implementation of WebRTC. The server is portable
While traffic is encrypted and authenticated from sender to server and again from server to receiver, Galene does not perform end-to-end encryption: anyone who controls the server might, in principle, be able to access the data being exchanged.
For small deployments, even a small ARM board such as a Raspberry Pi, a BeagleBone or an Olimex Olinuxino-A64 should be sufficient.
This is free and open source software.
Website: galene.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Juliusz Chroboczek
License: MIT License
Galene is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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