On 1/31/25 01:50, Hans wrote:
Hi folks,
I am following this discussion here with great interest. We all know, that
Zoom is not quite secure and we all know, that our data are transferred int
the US (where they probably will be processed further on).
Thus, many alternatives were mentioned like Jitsi, Jami and BBB.
But I wondered, why nobody mentioned "Rustdesk". Rustdesk is fully open
source, it is free and you can either use theire servers or with little
efforts, build your own. So you are fully on premise.
I also wondered, why no one mentioned "fairmeeting". Fairmeeting is the same
as Jitsi, and it is GPDA compliant.
Especially in Europe I would prefer fairmeeting over Jitsi (but that can
decide evryone for himself).
Both solutions are available for linux, windows and mac, and of course thy are
free, open-source and costless.
Maybe this might be an alternative for Zoom?
Just my 2 cents....
Best regards
Hans
Thanks for mentioning these. I looked up both on English language
Wikipedia and found they are not listed in the chart of webconferencing
software. There is a page on Rustdesk however. It is referred to as
remote desktop software and indeed it does appear in the comparison
chart of remote desktop software, seemingly a different category.
Fairmeeting does not have an article but a mention is made of it in the
article about Jitsi. I lifted the following paragraph out of the Jitsi
article
"Several organisations and universities have set up their own Jitsi
based video conferencing services, among them fairkom with fairmeeting,
hosted on a scalable kubernetes cluster in the EU[57] or Goethe
University Frankfurt.[58] "
I didn't look at the german language wikipedia. Maybe it's different.
Perhaps they could be added to the English Wikipedia.
Also, I didn't look to see if either is packaged for debian. I would
guess maybe not. If not, then that would be a factor in people on this
list not knowing about them.
Don MacDougall
