OpenTalk video conferencing now Open Source
https://opentalk.eu/en/news/opentalk-now-open-source-under-eu-public-licence
Looks like there are a lot of features in there already and a lot of features planned, and the product was designed and architected with these use cases in mind from the start and in particular with an eye to authentication and authorization, which the others may or may not have been.
Also the backend is in Rust and the frontend is in React/JS, which they found to be an important decision.
https://opentalk.eu/en/product
@lupyuen@qoto.org I like their choice of code hosting:
Open CoDE is a public administration project initiated by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community and the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia. The project is part of the realization of the Federal German Cloud Strategy and is being further developed in cooperation with the Working Group 'Cloud Computing and Digital Sovereignty' of the IT Planning Council.
https://opencode.de/enSo that implies that this project was funded by some part of the German government?
OpenTalk has been developed by the Berlin-based company Heinlein Support
[ . . . ]What began as a project for the city of Berlin with the development of a city-wide video conferencing platform has now led to the development of OpenTalk
There we go.https://opentalk.eu/en/about-us
@lupyuen@qoto.org Do you know about the project? Are there specifics on some other page regarding the rationale? I will look around a bit. The below is interesting but vague:
We consider OpenTalk as a natural evolution step forward from solutions like Jitsi or BBB, whose architectures were unfortunately too inflexible to accommodate our ideas for true next-generation video conferencing. As a result, we created a new, more modern architecture to base developments on, and also to make OpenTalk competitive to other well-known cloud providers such as Zoom, Cisco WebEx or Microsoft Teams. OpenTalk demonstrates that quality, performance, usability, and security can be achieved without having to rely on a US-based cloud infrastructure. It’s not just "also possible" – it’s the only way.