Reasons for Decentralization
- Questioning the Universe Publishing (QUP) {Irucka Embry]: Resources to help us rethink, reimagine, & reFeel our world: : Global Surveillance
- GNU Operating System: Who does that server really serve? by Richard Stallman, originally published in Boston Review
- Android Authority: Report: Hundreds of apps have hidden tracking software used by the government By C. Scott Brown, August 7, 2020
- Nicky Hager: Author and Investigative Journalist
- DuncanCampbell.org: Investigative journalist and forensic expert
- DuncanCampbell.org: NSA: “yes, there is an ECHELON system”
- My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers: Duncan Campbell spent 30 years — and risked his freedom — uncovering the secrets of U.S. and British eavesdropping, including the existence of ECHELON, one of the biggest spy scandals of the Cold War. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, he has proof of ECHELON's existence. By Duncan Campbell, August 3 2015, The Intercept
- Revealed: The NSA's Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security by Jeff Larson, ProPublica, Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times, and Scott Shane, The New York Times, Sep. 5, 2013
- eBook of Secret Power By Nicky Hager
- Snowden Archive —The SidToday Files: The UKUSA SIGINT Relationship, The Intercept
- Top VPN Service: The Five, Nine and Fourteen Eyes Alliance — How to Protect Your Privacy By Jawwad Iqbal, November 4, 2020
- Gang Stalking, Mind Control, and Cults: ECHELON, Industrial Espionage, and the Organized Stalking Terror Police State By Eric Karlstrom, Posted on May 17, 2019
- Lawfare: Newly Disclosed NSA Documents Shed Further Light on Five Eyes Alliance By Scarlet Kim, Paulina Perlin, March 25, 2019
- The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed: Documents shine light on a secretive coalition that eavesdrops on communications in countries across the world. By Ryan Gallagher, March 1 2018, The Intercept
- Gaia: One of the Oldest Conspiracies Proven True: Project Echelon By Gaia Staff, April 24, 2018
- Why Does Anyone Still Believe the NSA? By Washington's Blog, Global Research/Washington's Blog, January 14, 2014
- Spy Agency Engaged In Internet “False Flag” Attacks By Washington's Blog, Global Research/Washington's Blog, February 06, 2014
- Federal Judge Rules NSA Phone Data Collection is Legal and Justified by the 9/11 Attacks By Patrick Martin, Global Research/World Socialist Web Site, December 28, 2013
- Swedish Intelligence Service Spying on Russia for US National Security Agency By Jordan Shilton, Global Research/World Socialist Web Site, December 30, 2013
- NSA Feeds Raw Intelligence Data to Israel By Bill Van Auken, Global Research/World Socialist Web Site, September 13, 2013
- The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US–Centric Internet” By Umberto Pascali, Global Research, September 17, 2013
- Undermining Privacy, Internet Spying: The “Hidden” Security Agenda Behind the “Hidden” Browsing Histories” Issue. Theresa May and the Snooper's Charter By Dr. Binoy Kampmark/Global Research, December 29, 2015
- Mission Creep: How the NSA's Game–Changing Targeting System Built for Iraq and Afghanistan Ended Up on the Mexico Border: The revolutionary NSA system merged different sources of electronic surveillance to rapidly map enemy fighters. The ramifications are still being felt. By Henrik Moltke, May 29 2019, The Intercept
- ECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program By Tom Burghardt, Global Research, November 14, 2013/Antifascist Calling and Global Research 13 July 2013
- The U.S. Secret State and the Internet: “Dirty Secrets” and “Crypto Wars” from “Clipper Chip” and ECHELON to PRISM By Tom Burghardt, Global Research, May 19, 2015/Antifascist Calling and Global Research 11 November 2013
- Guardian Weekly: Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security by James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald, 5 September 2013
- Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? By Bruce Schneier, Wired News, November 15, 2007
- Wired: Want to Ditch Zoom?: Jitsi Offers an Open–Source Alternative: As we spend more time on videoconferences, concerns mount about trust. Emil Ivov says you shouldn't have to trust anyone. By Klint Finley, 04.20.2020
- NPR: All Things Considered: In–Q–Tel: The CIA's Tax–Funded Player In Silicon Valley By Steve Henn
- NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered By Jacob Kleinman, TechnoBuffalo, August 22, 2013
- Report accuses BT of supplying backdoors for GCHQ and NSA: Researchers accuse BT of placing backdoors into firmware, linking their modems to network in the U.K. with IPs assigned to the U.S. Department of Defense By Steve Ragan, CSO, December 16, 2013
- Vice: 15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. It Ended Badly: Before Facebook, the military tried to make an all knowing ‘cyberdiary’ called LifeLog. by David Axe, May 21 2018. Also archived at https://archive.vn/2THh2
- WIRED: Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project By WIRED Staff, 02.04.04. Also archived at https://archive.ph/qMMFW
- American Civil Liberties Union: To the Government, Your Latest Facebook Rant Is Raw Intel By Hugh Handeyside, September 29, 2016
- Tech Wellness: Instagram and Facebook's Policies: Do You Know What You've Agreed To?
- Business Insider: Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems by Nicholas Carlson, May 13, 2010
- Google and Facebook Discussed Secret Systems for the U.S. Government to Spy on Users By Pratap Chatterjee, Global Research, June 11, 2013/CorpWatch 8 June 2013
- Google Leaks: Censorship Exposed
- Quartz: Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance By Jeff Nesbit, December 8, 2017
- TomDispatch: Tomgram: How to Act Like a Billionaire & Welcome to the (Don't Be) Evil Empire: Google Eats the World By Rebecca Solnit
- Consumer Watchdog: Google
- NSA Spying and Search Engine “Tracking Technologies“: It's not Okay if the NSA Spies on us, but it's okay when Google does… By Ming Chun Tang, Global Research, January 19, 2014
- CNET News: NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports: If a recently leaked document is any indication, the US National Security Agency –– or its UK counterpart –– appears to have put on a Google suit to gather intelligence. by Edward Moyer, CNET, September 12, 2013
- Social Media is A Tool of the CIA: “Facebook, Google and Other Social Media Used to Spy on People” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 14, 2017/Global Research 28 August 2017
- Free Software Foundation: Free Software Foundation statement on the new iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch by Free Software Foundation, Published on Sep 09, 2014
Break Out of Surveillance
- EcoC²S Online Resources: Break Out of Surveillance
- EcoC²S Online Resources: Freeing and Opening Hardware, Information, Knowledge, Society, Software, and the World
- Restore Privacy: Your online privacy resource center
- Surveillance Self–Defense: Tips, Tools and How–tos for Safer Online Communications: A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Restore Privacy: Alternatives to Google Products By Sven Taylor, June 24, 2019
- Stop Watching Us: A Coalition Against Mass Surveillance
- Reset The Net – Privacy Pack
- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
- PRISM Break: Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora
- MediaGoblin: On Prism By Christopher Allan Webber on Monday, 10 Jun 2013
- Free Software Foundation – working together for free software: Free Software Foundation statement on PRISM revelations by John Sullivan – Published on Jun 07, 2013
- Collection:PRISM: Free Software Foundation Free Software Directory
- Free Software Foundation: Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance by Zak Rogoff — Published on Jul 18, 2013
- Who does that server really serve? by Richard Stallman
Overall Web hosting framework
- Alternative Internet: A collection of interesting networks and technology aiming at re–decentralizing the Internet.
- qortal: Truly Decentralized infrastructure for individual sovereignty – Qortal Blockchain Technology – web hosting, data storage, decentralized trading, etc – true decentralization
- Ethereum is a global, open–source platform for decentralized applications. On Ethereum, you can write code that controls digital value, runs exactly as programmed, and is accessible anywhere in the world.
- For most users, LBRY will be a place where they can find great videos, music, ebooks, and more: imagine a vast digital library that is available on all of your devices. But under the hood, LBRY is many components working together. First and foremost, LBRY is a new protocol that allows anyone to build apps that interact with digital content on the LBRY network. Apps built using the protocol allow creators to upload their work to the LBRY network of hosts (like BitTorrent), to set a price per stream or download (like iTunes) or give it away for free (like YouTube without ads). The work you publish could be videos, audio files, documents, or any other type of file. Traditional video (or other content) sites such as YouTube, Instagram, and Spotify store your uploads on their servers and allow viewers to download them. They also allow creators to make some money through advertising or other mechanisms. However, there are some well–known drawbacks, especially for people whose material is perceived as not being advertiser–friendly. LBRY aims to be an alternative to these sites, allowing publishers and their fans to interact directly without the risk of demonetization or other meddling.
- Sandstorm is an open source platform for self–hosting web apps
- MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
- Freedom of expression, control of personal data, private and secure communications; and a whole new economy. Welcome to the SAFE Network.
Free and Open Communication Applications with the Jabber and SIP Protocols
- XMPP is the open standard for messaging and presence
- JMP: Your phone number on every device. JMP gives you a real phone number that is yours for calling and texting, including group and picture messages, that works from all your devices at once. Because we use the Jabber and SIP open protocols, you can use any existing client even if we don't have an official recommendation for your device yet!
- Conversations is a Jabber/XMPP client for Android 5.0+ smartphones that has been optimized to provide a unique mobile experience.
- Siskin IM: Lightweight & powerful XMPP client for iPhone and iPad
- Jitsi Desktop: Secure video calls, conferencing, chat, desktop sharing, file transfer, support for your favorite OS, and IM network. All this, and more, in Jitsi — the most complete and advanced open source communicator.
- Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time. Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX–like operating systems.
- Adium is a free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.
- Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Thanks to rolling release development model users recieve new features and fixes of bugs very quickly.
- Psi is a free instant messaging application designed for the XMPP network. Fast and lightweight, Psi is fully open'source and compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS. With Psi's full Unicode support and localizations, easy file transfers, customizable iconsets, and many other great features, you'll learn why users around the world are making the switch to free, open instant messaging.
- Gajim: A fully–featured XMPP client
- Dino is a modern open-source chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience while having your privacy in mind.
- Linphone open source VoIP SIP softphone — voice, video and instant messaging
- Yate (Yet Another Telephony Engine) is written in C++ and can be used as: a VoIP server/client, an SS7 switch, an H.323<->SIP Proxy, a Jabber server/client, a Conference server, an IVR engine, an ISDN passive and active recorder, a PC2Phone or a VoIP to PSTN gateway as well as for many other applications.
Electronic mail (e–mail) Communication [Alternatives to Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail/Live, etc.]
- Free Software Foundation (FSF): Free Software Webmail Systems
- A/I (Autistici/Inventati, pronounced [au'tistiʧi]–[iŋ'vɛntati], or [iŋvɛn'tati]) was born in 2001 from an encounter of individuals and collectives of the autonomous anticapitalist movement interested in technology and active in the digital rights struggle. We believe that this world is far from being the best world possible. We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self–defense addressing the need of secure, free communication and privacy for activists and other individuals. All of our services are provided for free, without any form of control or commoditization of the personal user data. We don't receive any form of compensation for our work. We are volunteers exploiting the experiences we accumulated over years of technological, political and legal research while doing radical activism, and we are motivated and inspired by the principles of solidarity and self organization.
- posteo.de: Email green, secure, simple and ad–free
- Mailnesia: Anonymous E–Mail In Seconds
- spamgourmet: free auto–creating email addresses, strong spam blocker, short learning curve
- Guerrilla Mail: Disposable Temporary E–Mail Address
- riseup.net
- Safe–mail.net
- Kolab Now: secure and private email, calendars and more: Owned and Operated in Switzerland
- Cock.li: Yeah it's mail with cocks
Document and Code Secure Signing [Alternatives to DocuSign}
- SignServer digitally signs your documents and code while keeping signature keys secure and workflows easy, secure and auditable. Start signing documents and code in a secure way today.
- iSafePDF is a free open source PDF protection software. It allows you to encrypt PDF document, signe them using a certificate and timestamp the signature. All those features are PDF standards so your document will be readable/editable with all standard PDF programs.
- JSignPdf is an open source Java application which adds digital signatures to PDF documents.
- FOXopen was built to create complex workflow–based systems, so it's perfect for: Regulatory systems; Form–based web applications; Workflow systems; Document management; Digital signing; e–Government systems; Licensing and consents applications; and GIS
- OpenKM is a management solution that allows businesses to control the production, storage, management and distribution of electronic documents, yielding greater effectiveness and the ability to reuse information and to control the flow of the documents. OpenKM is a document management software that integrates all essential document management, collaboration and an advanced search functionality into one easy to use solution. The system also includes administration tools to define the roles of various users, access control, user quota, level of document security, detailed logs of activity and automation setup. OpenKM document management software builds a highly valuable repository of corporate information assets to facilitate knowledge creation and improve business decision making, boosting workgroups and enterprise productivity through shared practices, greater, better customer relations, faster sales cycles, improved product time–to–market, and better–informed decision making.
Online File Storage and Sharing Alternatives to Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.
- Awesome Open Source: The Top 57 File Sharing Open Source Projects
- Simply exchange files with WOOF (requires Python on a unix'ish operating system)
- OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
- CryptPad is a private–by–design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).
- GNUnet is a framework for secure peer–to–peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. Our high–level goal is to provide a strong free software foundation for a global network that provides security and in particular respects privacy. GNUnet started with an idea for anonymous censorship–resistant file–sharing, but has grown to incorporate other applications as well as many generic building blocks for secure networking applications. In particular, GNUnet now includes the GNU Name System, a privacy–preserving, decentralized public key infrastructure.
- Tahoe–LAFS (Least–Authority File System) is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, preserving your privacy and security.
- Cryptomator: Free client–side encryption for your cloud files. Open source software: No backdoors, no registration.
- SparkleShare: Self hosted, instant, secure file sync
- YouTransfer is a simple but elegant self–hosted file transfer & sharing solution. It is an alternative to paid services like Dropbox and WeTransfer by offering similar features but without limitations, price plans and a lengthy privacy policy. You remain in control of your files. Created to be installed behind the firewall on private servers, YouTransfer aims to empower organisations and individuals that wish to combine easy–to–use file transfer tooling with security and control.
- Modern file management platform built according to your business needs and regulations, Pydio is open–source software deployed on your servers or wherever you decide.
- Linshare is an Open Source secure file sharing application intended to cover your business security and file transfer needs. If confidentiality and traceability are paramount for your business file transfers, then LinShare is your solution and better yet it's free ! We also offer high quality support services provided by our IT teams to suit your network at best
- ProjectSend is a self–osted application (you can install it easily on your own VPS or shared web hosting account) that lets you upload files and assign them to specific clients that you create yourself! Secure, private and easy. No more depending on external services or e–mail to send those files!
- Seafile is an open source file sync & share solution designed for high reliability, performance and productivity. Sync, share and collaborate across devices and teams. Build your team's knowledge base with Seafile's built–in Wiki feature.
- NitroShare is designed to make transferring files from one device to another extremely simple.
- OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.
- Aurora Files is an open–source file storage platform for small teams and personal users.
- Ceph is a unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability.
- ownCloud: The leading OpenSource Cloud Collaboration Platform. With over 50 million users worldwide, ownCloud is the market–leading open source software for cloud–based collaboration platforms. As an alternative to Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive, ownCloud offers real data security and privacy for you and your data.
- Nextcloudoffers the industry–leading, on–premises content collaboration platform. Our technology combines the convenience and ease of use of consumer–grade solutions like Dropbox and Google Drive with the security, privacy and control business needs.
- Riot: Chat, exchange files, make voice or video calls and conferences, add bots.
- FileDrop is a small web–based file–sharing UI. It can be used as a standalone server in trusted LANs, but it can optionally use Sandstorm for ACLs and sharing.
- Tox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging: Whether it's corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. Tox is easy–to–use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big–name services require you to pay for features, Tox is completely free and comes without advertising — forever.
- Retroshare: Secure communication for everyone
- Documize: Team–driven content authoring & automation for secure internal and external documentation.
- WikiSuite: The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite. WikiSuite is especially suited to knowledge–centric organizations and offers most (80%+) of the data and information management features all organizations need.
- FOXopen was built to create complex workflow–based systems, so it's perfect for: Regulatory systems; Form–based web applications; Workflow systems; Document management; Digital signing; e–Government systems; Licensing and consents applications; and GIS
- OpenKM is a management solution that allows businesses to control the production, storage, management and distribution of electronic documents, yielding greater effectiveness and the ability to reuse information and to control the flow of the documents. OpenKM is a document management software that integrates all essential document management, collaboration and an advanced search functionality into one easy to use solution. The system also includes administration tools to define the roles of various users, access control, user quota, level of document security, detailed logs of activity and automation setup. OpenKM document management software builds a highly valuable repository of corporate information assets to facilitate knowledge creation and improve business decision making, boosting workgroups and enterprise productivity through shared practices, greater, better customer relations, faster sales cycles, improved product time–to–market, and better–informed decision making.
Privacy–Respecting and/or Decentralized Search Engines
- Startpage.com: The world's most private search engine
- DuckDuckGo: Privacy, simplified.
- Qwant: The search engine that respects your privacy
- Seeks is a websearch proxy and collaborative distributed tool for websearch.
- YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world–wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.
- Anonymouse.org: Anonymization since 1997. Protect your privacy, protect your data, protect it for free. It is fast, it is easy, and it is free!
Alternative Social Networking
- Slate: How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List By April Glaser and Libby Reinish, June 17 2013
- GNUnet is a framework for secure peer–to–peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. Our high–level goal is to provide a strong free software foundation for a global network that provides security and in particular respects privacy. GNUnet started with an idea for anonymous censorship–resistant file–sharing, but has grown to incorporate other applications as well as many generic building blocks for secure networking applications. In particular, GNUnet now includes the GNU Name System, a privacy–preserving, decentralized public key infrastructure.
- The diaspora* Project: The online social world where you are in control
- GNU social is web software you can use to run your own social network, either privately or publicly.
- pump.io: It's a stream server that does most of what people really want from a social network
- Cryptocat is free software that aims to provide an open, accessible Instant Messaging environment that encrypts your conversations and works right in your browser. Cryptocat is an open source experiment — the goal is to provide the easiest, most accessible way to chat while maintaining your privacy online, because privacy needs to be accessible.
- Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self–determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.
Alternatives to Google Maps, etc. (Online and Offline)
- Pelias: A modular, open–source geocoder built on top of Elasticsearch for fast and accurate global search.
- Gisgraphy provides forward and reverse geocoding, geolocalisation, and vehicle tracking web services. Open source geocoder and addresses / POIs databases
- World Geocoding: Free opensource geocoder and webservices for Geonames and Openstreetmap data.
- Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine. Navit's modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering on the screen. It's even possible to use multiple maps at the same time. The GTK+ or SDL user interfaces are designed to work well with touch screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed on the map. The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from NMEA GPS sensors. The routing engine not only calculates an optimal route to your destination, but also generates directions and even speaks to you using espeak. Navit currently speaks 49 languages, can run on various platforms (Linux, Windows, Android, OpenMoko Freerunner, Wince, Nokia n800 Internet tables, iPhone, Zaurus..)
- Project OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine): Modern C++ routing engine for shortest paths in road networks.
- Openrouteservice is a open source route planner with plenty of features for car, heavy vehicles, hiking and cycling.
- Openrouteservice Maps: Driving Directions
- GraphHopper Maps: Driving Directions
- Mapbox: An open source mapping platform for custom designed maps. Our APIs and SDKs are the building blocks to integrate location into any mobile or web app.
- MAPS.ME is an open source cross–platform offline maps application, built on top of crowd–sourced OpenStreetMap data. It was publicly released for iOS and Android.
- OsmAnd: Offline Mobile Maps and Navigation
- Qwant Maps
- uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.
- Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps.
- Leaflet is the leading open–source JavaScript library for mobile–friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about 38 KB of JS, it has all the mapping features most developers ever need. Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins, has a beautiful, easy to use and well–documented API and a simple, readable source code that is a joy to contribute to.
- Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.
- OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
- OpenStreetMap US: We help grow OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world, in the United States.
- Emacsen's Blog: Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble Posted by Serge Wroclawski, 16 February 2018
- Switch2OSM: Take back control of your maps
- OpenMapTiles: World maps you can self–host — powered by free OpenStreetMap vector tiles and open–source software.
- OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. It is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2–clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD).
- KeplerJs is a open source geosocial general–purpose solution that lets users share favorite places and join discussions in real–time. Out of the box, it can be seen as a platform where users can interact with other Open Data platforms OpenStreetMap among other sources.
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.
- TransforMap works towards an online platform to visualize the myriad of alternatives to the dominant economic thinking on a single mapping system. It will give everyone the opportunity to map the initiatives, communities, projects, worker–owned, self–managed, democratically organised companies and other institutions dedicated to meeting people's needs, serving the common good and/ or contributing to a sustainable way of life.
Facebook Live, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Alternatives
- Opensource.com: Create your own video streaming server with Linux: Set up a basic live streaming server on a Linux or BSD operating system. By Aaron J. Prisk, 08 Jan 2019
- PeerTube, developed by Framasoft, is the free and decentralized alternative to video platforms, providing you over 400,000 videos published by 60,000 users and viewed over 15 million times.
- PeerTube Instances
- OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) Studio: Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
- Opencast Studio: A web–based recording studio for Opencast. Opencast Studio allows you to record your camera, your display and your microphone's audio. You can then either download your recordings or upload them directly to an Opencast instance (usually the one of your university).
- Agora.io: Real–Time Voice and Video Engagement. The Real–Time Engagement Platform for meaningful human connections.People engage longer when they see, hear, and interact with each other. With Agora, you can embed vivid voice and video in any application, on any device, anywhere.
- Video.js is a web video player built from the ground up for an HTML5 world. It supports HTML5 video and modern streaming formats, as well as YouTube, Vimeo, and even Flash (through plugins, more on that later). It supports video playback on desktop and mobile devices. The project was started mid 2010, and now has hundreds of contributors and is used on over 450,000 websites.
- Open Streaming Platform (OSP) is an open–source, RTMP streamer software front–end for Arut's Nginx–RTMP Module. OSP was designed as a self–hosted alternative to services such as Twitch.tv, Ustream.tv, Mixer, and Youtube Live. OSP uses Python 3, the Flask Micro–Framework, Nginx–RTMP, VideoJS, Bootstrap, and other modules to build a home for your live streams, videos, and community.
- Icecast is a streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.
- Ant Media Server is a powerful and scalable ultra–low–latency video streaming engine using WebRTC for your streaming project. Streaming solutions…
- ClipBucket: Open Source OTT, VOD and Enterprise Video Hosting Solution
- MistServer Open Source: Basic media streaming for enthousiasts under the aGPLv3 license.
- OpenFLIXR Media Server is an all–in–one media server for automated downloading and serving media. Tools like CouchPotato, SickChill, Headphones and SABnzbd to download and Plex Media Server to bring everything to your screens. Be it tablets, TVs, PCs, you name it. Completely web-based and includes monitoring and management tools. Smart auto–updating will keep everything up–to–date and running smooth. All programs are optimised to work together so it takes very little time to set it up. Being a virtual appliance gives you the advantage to run it on any platform. The only thing you need is a hypervisor like VirtualBox (Open Source), VMWare Fusion / Workstation / Player / ESXi, Parallels Desktop, KVM / unRAID or Microsoft Hyper–V.
- Kurento is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Kurento Media Server features include group communications, transcoding, recording, mixing, broadcasting and routing of audiovisual flows. As a differential feature, Kurento Media Server also provides advanced media processing capabilities involving computer vision, video indexing, augmented reality and speech analysis. Kurento modular architecture makes simple the integration of third party media processing algorithms (i.e. speech recognition, sentiment analysis, face recognition, etc.), which can be transparently used by application developers as the rest of Kurento built-in features.
- Red5 is an open source media server for live streaming solutions of all kinds. It is designed to be flexible with a simple plugin architecture that allows for customization of virtually any VOD and live streaming scenario. Red5 has been and is being used by thousands of companies from Amazon to Facebook.
- MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
- Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real–time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations.
- Modular: Awesome hosting for Matrix chat and integrations: Built on the Matrix open ecosystem for secure, decentralised communication, by the creators of Matrix.
Cisco WebEx, Google Hangouts, FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, etc. Alternatives
- Opensource.com: 5 open source alternatives to Skype: Communicate without compromising your open source ethos with these alternatives to proprietary web conferencing software. 02 Jul 2018
- Signal: State–of–the–art end–to–end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure. We can't read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn't an optional mode — it's just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time.
- Jami is a free and universal communication platform which preserves the user's privacy and freedoms. Designed for the general public as well as the industry, Jami aims to provide all of its users a universal communication tool, free, secure and built on a distributed architecture requiring no authority nor central server to operate.
- Jami: All features by client
- Element (previously riot.im): All–in–one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations. Keeps conversations in your control, safe from data–mining and ads. Talk to everyone through the open global Matrix network, protected by proper end–to–end encryption.
- Jitsi is a set of open–source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing 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.
- Jitsi Meet [Use online]
- Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free — with no account needed. [Download]
- Jitsi Videobridge: It's a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) designed to run thousands of video streams from a single server — and it's fully open source and WebRTC compatible. (For developers)
- Tox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging: Whether it's corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. Tox is easy–to–use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big–name services require you to pay for features, Tox is completely free and comes without advertising — forever.
- Retroshare: Secure communication for everyone
- OpenVidu: Easy videoconference in your web or mobile app
- Licode: Open Source WebRTC Communications Platform.
- Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools. It uses API functions of Media Server for Remoting and Streaming (Red5 or Kurento).
- Opencast is a flexible, scalable and reliable video capture, management, and distribution system for academic institutions. Opencast is built by a growing community of developers from leading universities and organizations worldwide.
- BigBlueButton: Web Conferencing System Designed For Online Learning
- Linphone is an open source SIP client for HD voice/video calls, 1–to–1 and group instant messaging, conference calls etc. Available for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux.
- WikiSuite: The most comprehensive and integrated Free / Libre / Open Source enterprise software suite. WikiSuite is especially suited to knowledge–centric organizations and offers most (80%+) of the data and information management features all organizations need.
- WikiSuite: Chat and Video Conference
- Yate (Yet Another Telephony Engine) is written in C++ and can be used as: a VoIP server/client, an SS7 switch, an H.323<->SIP Proxy, a Jabber server/client, a Conference server, an IVR engine, an ISDN passive and active recorder, a PC2Phone or a VoIP to PSTN gateway as well as for many other applications.
Polls (Alternatives to Doodle Polls)
- CryptPad: Poll
- Framadate: Make your polls
- Nuages: Create polls easily, and publish them for your mates, in order to plan meetings and activities.
- dudle
- dudle: anonymous poll
- jawanndenn is a simple web application to schedule meetings and run polls, a libre alternative to Doodle. There are links at the bottom of the Web page for other like–minded free/libre open source polls
- KIMB–Forms–Project: This tools allows users to create polls, each poll can be used to find a date for an appointment (like Doodle an other). Or one can create a poll to coordinate helping hands, e.g. one needs 10 persons for 5 shifts, this tool provides the interface (e.g. as alternative to Google Forms).
Online Surveys (Alternatives to Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, etc.)
- EtherCalc is a web spreadsheet. Your data is saved on the web, and people can edit the same document at the same time. Everybody's changes are instantly reflected on all screens. Work together on inventories, survey forms, list management, brainstorming sessions and more!
- JD eSurvey delivers an exceptionally intuitive, open source system with easy-to-use interfaces to design, collect, and analyze survey data.
- TellForm: Craft beautiful forms in seconds
Collaborative Editing (Google, Microsoft, etc. Collaborative Editing Alternatives)
- Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real–time.
- Firepad: Open source collaborative code and text editing
- Gobby is a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi–user chat. [Download and build]
- CryptPad is a private–by–design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).
Collaborative Editing / Online Spreadsheets (Google, Microsoft, etc. Collaborative Editing Alternatives)
- EtherCalc is a web spreadsheet. Your data is saved on the web, and people can edit the same document at the same time. Everybody's changes are instantly reflected on all screens. Work together on inventories, survey forms, list management, brainstorming sessions and more!
- CryptPad is a private–by–design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us).
Alternatives to Trello, Jira, etc. (Project Management software)
- OpenProject: online project management software — free and open source
- Wekan: Open–Source kanban
- Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software.
- Taiga is the project management platform for agile teams who want a beautiful tool to make work truly enjoyable.
- Restyaboard: Open source Trello alternative, kanban board for task management
- TaskBoard: A simple, visual way to keep track of what needs to get done
- Planner: Cross–platform project management tool based on the Work breakdown structure (WBS). Its goal is to be an easy–to–use no–nonsense project management application. Projects are stored in XML files and can be printed to PDF or exported to HTML for easy viewing from any web browser.
Team Project Collaboration (Mostly for Developers)
- Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution.
- Zulip combines the immediacy of real–time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.
- Mattermost is an open source, self–hosted Slack–alternative. As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings all your team communication into one place, making it searchable and accessible anywhere. It's written in Golang and React and runs as a production–ready Linux binary under an MIT license with either MySQL or Postgres.
- Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web–based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.
- Fluxday: opensource task & productivity management tool for startups. Fluxday was developed by Foradian starting in 2014 and was a critical part of Foradian's hyper growth and success. Fluxday is engineered based on the concepts of OKR — Objectives and Key Results.