eLecture

Shindig is a turnkey solution for online video chat events. It enables a host to give a video conference, lecture, seminar, interview, or media event in front of an online audience of thousands. Hosts can share the stage for face-to-face interactions with audience members before the entire gathering or sidebar with participants privately. Audience members are also able to network, discuss and socialize with one another in their own self-initiated private video chats.

Galène (or Galene) is a videoconference server (an “SFU”) that is easy to deploy and that requires moderate server resources. It was originally designed for lectures, conferences and student tutorials, but is also useful for traditional meetings. Galène has been used in production at two major universities (Université de Paris and Sorbonne Université) for lectures, practicals, seminars, and for staff meetings. It has been used to host two conferences (SOCS'2020 and JFLA'2021). Galène's server side is implemented in Go, and uses the Pion implementation of WebRTC. The server is regularly tested on Linux/amd64 and Linux/arm64; it has also been shown to run on Linux/armv7 and Linux/mips (OpenWRT), and even on Windows. It should in principle be portable to other systems, including Mac OS X. The default client is implemented in Javascript, and works on recent versions of all major web browsers, both on desktop and mobile (but see the FAQ for caveats with specific browsers).