Stephen Downes

Jitsi offers an open source alternative to commercial conferencing platforms like Zoom and Teams. It's "a collection of free and open-source multiplatform voice, video conferencing and instant messaging applications for the web platform, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. It is one of the most popular open source real-time media servers out there." This article looks at Jitsi for mobile conferencing and offers an in-depth look at its many components. It also describes the commercial components, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model called JaaS – Jitsi as a Service. It also outlines WebRTC, – the underlying communication technology used by Jitsi and various other conferencing platforms.