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Jitsi Meet

Jitsi Meet is a completely free, open source videoconferencing program that you can connect to via a browser or smartphone app. You can use it right now by visiting https://meet.jit.si and choosing a name for your virtual meeting (or indeed accepting one of the amusing ones the website randomly generates). There are no downloads or configuration required by clients, they just need to click a link which you can share by email from within the meeting room. Or they can dial in and connect with a PIN. Simple.

Obviously Jitsi’s free service has some limitations, but these will be gone when we self host our own installation. You don’t need any particularly special hardware

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