Jitsi

JaaS: the Team that Builds Jitsi Can Now Also Run it for You! Start now Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting. First and foremost, Jitsi is a community of developers that are pushing the envelope of video conferencing quality on the web. Come join us! Our community members have developed countless projects and products that started with Jitsi code. Check ‘em out! Jitsi is the best, most secure video conferencing solution available for free to anyone. Try it out and download it for free Jitsi Videobridge passes everyone’s video and audio to all participants, rather than mixing them first. Better quality, lower latency and if you are running your own service, a much more scalable and inexpensive solution. Jitsi is compatible with WebRTC, the open standard for Web communication. Advanced video routing support for simulcast, bandwidth estimations, scalable video coding and many others. Ubuntu and Debian packages for easy installation. 2020 Jitsi surpasses 20 million monthly active users! Jitsi as a Service solution is released by 8x8. 2018 8x8 acquires the Jitsi Technology and team from Atlassian. Jitsi now powers all 8×8 Video Meetings and continues to grow in the heart of many successful initiatives 2015 Atlassian acquires Blue Jimp, making a long-term investment in keeping Jitsi open source, community-based, and pushing the envelope of great video conferences. 2014 Using a prototype from Philipp Hancke as a basis, the Jitsi community starts the Jitsi Meet project: a Web Conferencing application that rivals Hangouts and Skype 2013 Jitsi’s video routing capabilities are extracted in a separate server application and Jitsi Videobridge is born. Later this year Jitsi Videobridge adds support for ICE and DTLS/SRTP, thus becoming compatible with WebRTC clients. This is a first step to its importance in today’s WebRTC ecosystem. 2012 Jitsi adds video conferencing capabilities based on the concept of routing video streams. The client of the conference organizer acts as a video router. 2011 SIP Communicator is renamed Jitsi (from the Bulgarian “жици”, or “wires”), since it now also supports audio and video over XMPP’s Jingle extensions and it would be silly to still call it SIP Communicator. 2009 Emil Ivov and Yana Stamcheva found the Blue Jimp company, which employs Jitsi’s main contributors. They offer professional support and development services. 2008 SIP Communicator gets its first end-to-end encryption through ZRTP 2007 We get our own Wikipedia entry. Look out, world. 2005 SIP communicator is completely rearchitected, adopting a new OSGi based design to make it easier to write plugins for the project. 2003 Emil Ivov, a student at the University of Strasbourg, France, creates SIP Communicator. He also teaches salsa and West Coast swing.

Jitsi Desktop is a free open-source audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, IRC and many other useful features. Jitsi Desktop is the heritage of Jitsi Meet. While some components are still used in e.g. Jigasi, the project is not actively developed anymore. Improvements, bugfixes and builds are entirely based on community contributions. Snapshot or pre-release builds are also available in additional repositories. Windows and macOS: See Debian/Ubuntu: Please, read the contribution guidelines before opening a new issue or pull request.