Summary

Alex K proposed an Idea of building a privacy optimized video conferencing services using Open source. Below are a few ideas.

Features

1. Sovereign: Full control over data and path of transmission.
2. Unstoppable: Impossible to interrupt, always on.
3. Secure: End-to-end encrypted
4. High-performance: Optimize for latency with control over data center choice, all the way to the transit level. Optimal choice of picking the closest datacenter based on participant location.
5. Cost optimized: Compute price set by an open market based on demand-supply

Benefits

• Instant, w/o signups
• Scale to 100s within seconds
• Privacy and Security Guaranteed

Open source Landscape

1. https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet
2. https://matrix.org
3. https://about.riot.im