Open source / FLOSS tool for online collaboration

Aalto Media Lab students are awesome.

Now they have collected a list of open source / FLOSS tools for online collaboration during the pandemic. The original file is in the Wikimedia’s etherpad. I don’t want to share the link to that collaboratively editable file, but I copied here the content as it was on Tuesday 9th at 11.30 AM.

When you see our students, say “Hi” and “Thank you!”

AUDIO-VISUAL CONFERENCING

• Jitsi Meet (https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/)- free, no limit on participants, browser-based (which means nothing to install for any participants) (but bugs a bit if you are many)

• How to selfhost Ubuntu/Debian – https://guides.lw1.at/books/how-to-install-jitsi-meet-on-debian-or-ubuntu/ (Does anyone know a good documentation for server set up also with trouble solving tips?)

• official installation: https://meet.jit.si/  

• other instances by various organisations: https://meet.mayfirst.org / https://calls.disroot.org / https://vc.autistici.org / https://framatalk.grifon.fr/ / https://meet.librement-votre.fr/ / https://jitsi.milkywan.fr/ / https://jitsi.linux.it / https://calls.disroot.org / https://jitsi.riot.im / https://jitsi2.linux.it / https://meet.guifi.net / https://meet.greenhost.net / https://fairmeeting.net/ / https://meet.artifaille.fr / https://www.colibris-outilslibres.org/ (choose “visio”) / https://meet.collective.tools

• belnet instance: https://jitsi-1.belnet.be

• https://peercalls.com/ (no registration, browser-based, FLOSS)

• https://openmeetings.apache.org – Apache Open Meetings – this is software to install on the server; are there any available instances of it?

• https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/about/ – unhangout

• chatb.org/ simple, FLOSS videochat 

– not libre:

• https://whereby.com/ – limited to 4 people unless you pay for a pro account (ca. $10); browser-based; not FLOSS

• https://bigbluebutton.org/ – can share slides, make notes, go into a break room, etc (better install it on your own server)

• https://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php – i think Mumble is audio chat only? yes

• https://itshello.co/ / https://talk.vasanthv.com/  (not really FLOSS, but still free to use via author’s installation)

• https://talky.io/ – not sure if this is completely FLOSS or not; i found some info from 2015 that says it is not 100% but nearly: https://blog.andyet.com/2015/06/09/what-is-being-open-sourced-from-talky/

STREAMING
What one-to-many streaming services are available?

• http://giss.tv/ – helen has tried to use this in the past without success

• https://icecast.org/ – need to have a server to install it on

• https://live.autistici.org

• https://obsproject.com/fr/g/

• https://openstreamingplatform.com/ Open Streaming Platform (OSP) is an open-source, RTMP streamer software front-end for Arut’s Nginx-RTMP Module.  OSP was designed as a self-hosted alternative to services such as Twitch.tv, Ustream.tv, Mixer, and Youtube Live.

• https://obsproject.com, Open Broadcaster Software, video/audio streaming software

• https://github.com/mafintosh/hypervision / https://github.com/louiscenter/hypercast – hypervision/ hypercast : server-free decentralised video streaming, based on the p2p DAT protocol. Kinda experimental, but works.

• https://www.crowdcast.io/ – this is open source (https://github.com/crowdcst?ref=stackshare) so if you have your own server i think you could probably install it?? otherwise it is a pay-to-use platform. no downloads, works in a browser, embeddable streams.

VIDEO hosting:

•  https://joinpeertube.org/ PeerTube aspires to be a decentralized and free/libre alternative to video broadcasting services. (FLOSS and free and federated) 

CHAT

• Delta chat https://delta.chat/en/

• MATRIX – An open network for secure, decentralized communication https://matrix.org/ / and one of its clients : Riot https://about.riot.im/

• XMPP – https://xmpp.org/ an open protocol with numerous implementations, including :

• https://conversejs.org/fullscreen.html – Conversejs is “A free and open-source XMPP chat client in your browser”https://pad.riseup.net/p/Autorit%C3%A4reRegressionInZeitenVonCorona-keep

• https://monal.im/

• https://fosstodon.org/@xmpp for more

• Mattermost https://mattermost.com/

• Cabal https://cabal.chat – p2p, server-free distributed group-chat

• The Wire – https://app.wire.com/ – Wire is an encrypted communication and collaboration app available for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and web browsers such as Firefox. Wire offers a collaboration suite featuring messenger, voice calls, video calls, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration –all protected by a secure end-to-end-encryption. Free for personal use. Open source. You need to create an account with an email address.

ETHERPADS

• https://etherpad.wikimedia.org

• https://cryptpad.fr/

• https://pad.systemli.org/

• https://pad.riseup.net/

• https://framapad.org/fr/

• https://pad.publiclab.org

Alternative social networks

• WeDistribute “a publication dedicated to Free Software, decentralized communication technologies, and sustainability” – https://wedistribute.org/

• Welcome to the Fediverse – https://fediverse.party/

Microblogging

• Mastodon – https://joinmastodon.org/ // https://instances.social/ 

• Pleroma – https://pleroma.social/ // https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma

• Misskey – https://join.misskey.page/en/ // https://fediverse.party/en/misskey

Macroblogging 

• Socialhome – https://socialhome.network/ // https://fediverse.party/en/socialhome

• Hubzilla – https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project // https://fediverse.party/en/hubzilla

• Diaspora – https://diasporafoundation.org/ // https://fediverse.party/en/diaspora

• Friendica – https://friendi.ca  //  https://fediverse.party/en/friendica

• secure scuttlebutt  (SSB) – https://scuttlebutt.nz/

ARTISTIC COLLABORATION

• UpStage – https://upstage.org.nz – real-time collaborative manipulation of digital media (images, animations, audio, live streams, text etc) along with a text chat – for creative play, improvisations, performances & presentations; email info [@] upstage.org.nz if you would like a guest log-in. we are holding events during the pandemic.

• PixelJam — a collaborative console for live coding visuals: https://pixeljam.glitch.me/

• extramuros – language-neutral shared-buffer networked live coding system https://github.com/dktr0/extramuros

• Icestream – audio streaming mixer allows multiple streams for distributed audio performance (server and client). – https://sourceforge.net/projects/icestream/

AUDIO TECH
routing a DAW into video streamingvia @ahihihhttps://github.com/ahihi/daw-loopback-guide
Music Hackspace @MusicHackspaceWe have a new forum! Join the discussion atonline-tools-for-the-pandemic | Etherpad
Ubuntu Studio is a free and open source operating system, and an official flavor of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is the most widely used multimedia-orientated operating system in the world. It comes preinstalled with a selection of the most common free multimedia applications available, and is configured for best performance for various purposes: Audio, Graphics, Video, Photography and Publishing.http://ubuntustudio.org
Routing computer audio https://jackaudio.org
Game development

• Twine – http://twinery.org/

• Ren’Py – https://www.renpy.org/

• Bitsy – http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html

• Fabularium (app) – https://fossdroid.com/a/fabularium.html

• –> more links: http://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/tools.html

• Flatpack – https://candle.itch.io/flatpack 

Self-hosting (with others)

• Freedombox – https://freedomboxfoundation.org/

• Freedombone – https://freedombone.net/

• Yunohost – https://yunohost.org/

• Practical guides and much more – https://homebrewserver.club/ 

• –> more links: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/self-hosting-together

• Feminist servers checklist: https://pad.riseup.net/p/femservers-checklist-security 

FOR KIDS

• https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes

USEFUL LINKS

• https://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Social_Practices_COVID-19_Teaching_Resources

• https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art

• https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ – Coronavirus Tech Handbook 

• https://syllabus.pirate.care/topic/coronanotes/ – Pirate Care: Flatten the curve, grow the care: What are we learning from Covid-19  

• https://detroitcommunitytech.org/  /  https://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=teachcommtech – Detroit Community Technology Project

• https://alliedmedia.org/consentful-tech-project – Consentful Tech Project

• https://ps.zoethical.org/c/engagement/prendre-soin/137 – prendre soin

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MEDIA-onlineArt_and_resources – HKU Image and Media Technology; recently opened online cultural resources: museums, libraries, streaming of operas, etc.

• https://www.systemli.org/en/2020/03/15/solidarity-as-infrastructure.html – “As a left-wing tech collective, we want to support you in using the right tools while still maintaining a minimum of privacy and security standards. Below are some specific recommendations for tools that we find useful for digital collaborative work processes.”

Sharing is CaringDas COVID19 – Infowiki von mur.athttps://wiki.mur.at/SharingIsCaring

Document Sharing

• NextCloud – https://nextcloud.com/: open source document sharing, alternative for Dropbox, Google Docs, etc. Needs to be hosted on a server. There are some providers, you can sign up for free here: https://nextcloud.com/signup/ (there are quite a few options, but you will need to check each company individually to know how good they might be) or check with your webhost, e.g. Mur.at provides NextCloud for its members.

• https://thegood.cloud/ – uses NextCloud, for individuals it’s free for 2GB

Digital Solidarity Networkshttps://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks

ARTICLESPURISM Our Essential List of Free Software for Remote Work March 25, 2020  Software  FLOSS applications / Software freedom / Tips and trickshttps://puri.sm/posts/our-essential-list-of-free-software-for-remote-work/
What do feminists have to say on #COVID19. A thread on Resources from (mostly) Global South thinkers. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1244225040507379712.html
The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #14The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.https://covid19syllabus.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-covid-19-readings-471