Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@qoto.org

@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.

@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/en

So that implies that this project was funded by some part of the German government?

@lupyuen Nice! Don't think I've seen any of these type devices hit the headlines in quite some time.