Webbased chat/phone software I can host myself?

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quantumgravity
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Iscritto: 04/22/2013

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.

Darksoul71
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Iscritto: 01/04/2012

why not hosting an IIRC server yourself ?

quantumgravity
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Iscritto: 04/22/2013

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.

Legimet
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Iscritto: 12/10/2013

This looks interesting (http://sipml5.org/), and it's under a free license.

Darksoul71
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Iscritto: 01/04/2012

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.

Mzee
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Iscritto: 07/10/2013

You probably want WebRTC. Here are some demos with the source code: https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/

ZykoticK9
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Iscritto: 04/07/2011
quantumgravity
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Iscritto: 04/22/2013

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.

ZykoticK9
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Iscritto: 04/07/2011

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...

quantumgravity
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Iscritto: 04/22/2013

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.

onpon4
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Iscritto: 05/30/2012

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.

quantumgravity
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Iscritto: 04/22/2013

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.

quantumgravity
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Iscritto: 04/22/2013

wrong post

Mzee
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Iscritto: 07/10/2013

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