Galene is a lightweight, fully featured videoconferencing server designed to be straightforward to deploy and economical with server resources.
It uses a Selective Forwarding Unit architecture and the Pion WebRTC implementation. Galene was originally developed for lectures, seminars and student tutorials, but its room and permission model also makes it suitable for conventional meetings.
The server is portable and modest installations can run on comparatively small Linux systems. Galene deliberately avoids a large supporting infrastructure, which makes it particularly attractive where a compact self-hosted conferencing system is preferred.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit.
- Audio and video conferencing.
- Screen sharing.
- Text chat.
- File transfer.
- Group and subgroup support.
- Username and password authentication.
- Cryptographic access tokens.
- Administrative command-line utility.
- Administrative API.
- Recording support.
- Moderate CPU and memory requirements.
- Single Go executable with few deployment requirements.
Website: github.com/jech/galene
Support:
Developer: Juliusz Chroboczek
License: MIT License
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