Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?
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Hey guys,
does anyone of you know about a piece of (free) software I can install on my server so all my friends can talk to me by just visiting the website of the server?
I think I could persuade a lot of my friends to "type this adress, log in and talk to me". Making them install some software and creating a jabber account is much more difficult.
why not hosting an IIRC server yourself ?
Do you know of any free web frontends for irc? I don't want my friends to install any software or use a third party service.
And I'm more interested in telephony.
This looks interesting (http://sipml5.org/), and it's under a free license.
I guess you need to set up an Apache server plus IRC server. Then you will need to install a webchat client like this:
http://code.google.com/p/webchat2/
Although webchat2 seems to have it's own backend. So an IRC server might not be mandatory.
You probably want WebRTC. Here are some demos with the source code: https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/
why this is a bad idea, it's SaaSS. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve
Either you didn't get what I am looking for or you didn't get what SaaSS is all about.
I don't want to use any foreign service on a server, I want to host the software on my own server and use it. It's the best thing you can do and quite the opposite of SaaSS.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:30:29PM +0100, name at domain wrote:
> Either you didn't get what I am looking for or you didn't get what
> SaaSS is all about.
> I don't want to use any foreign service on a server, I want to host
> the software on my own server and use it. It's the best thing you
> can do and quite the opposite of SaaSS.
For you, sure. For your "friends" it'd be SaaSS...
Sorry, that's ridiculous. They're using this service in order to talk to me. The worst thing I could do to them is recording everything they say during our conversation - just as I could with my telephone, with jabber and with face-to-face conversations in real life.
Audio data is flowing from them to me - it doesn't matter if to my pc or to my server.
That's not SaaSS. Talking to someone else remotely is not computing you can do on your own computer.
A JavaScript client isn't SaaSS, either. JavaScript isn't run remotely; it gets installed into the browser executed on your computer. That the installation and execution is silent and automatic is a problem, but it's not SaaSS (and it's not a problem with JavaScript itself, but the way browsers handle that JavaScript).
The only actual issue that arises is who you're trusting with your communications. If you trust a company, you're probably misplacing your trust. If you're trusting a friend, it's probably appropriately placed trust. If you're trusting the guy you're talking to, well, you already do that naturally; worrying about the guy you're talking to spying on your communications with them would just be silly.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far.
I think the webrtc experiment is the most promising solution I heard of by now.
It's a bit confusing since there is a project with a similar name (I think its website is webrtc.com or something like this) which gets developed by google, mozilla and opera. I checked the license file of this project and it seems to be non-free, in contrast to the webrtc experiment which has a proper MIT license.
I will check it out in a few weeks.
Any further comments are appreciated.
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Hallo quantumgravity,
There are dozens of websites related to WebRTC but they are pretty much all dealing with the same technology. [1]
AFAIK WebRTC is completely free.
I remember seeing a website recently with "Call me" buttons for Google, Twitter, etc... but I can't find it anymore unfortunately.
Maybe this [2] goes in the right direction, though I'm not sure if this is really free.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC
[2]: http://s.phono.com/releases/1.1/samples/callme/index.htm
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