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Jitsi + Moodle, with a dash of JaaS

So you want to have live meetings in Moodle courses. Well, as it turns out, this is quite an easy feat. Thanks to the wonderful work done by UDIMA (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid), you […]

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Google Summer of Code 2024

We’re happy to announce that Jitsi will be participating in Google Summer of Code 2024! We have some very cool project ideas in the list for this year, and we’re still open to discussing new […]

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Authentication on meet.jit.si

What’s going on? Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook […]

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Introducing whiteboards in Jitsi Meet

Trying to explain something to someone and they just don’t get it? If an image is worth a thousand words how about a diagram? Today we’re excited to announce the availability of whiteboards in Jitsi […]

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A stepping stone towards end-to-end encryption on mobile

It has been a while since our first release of end-to-end encryption for the web app and ever since we have tried to enhance and improve it. One of these enhancements was the introduction of […]

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March update: virtual backgrounds, new toolbar UI and more!

Hey there Fellow Jitsters! You might have noticed some changes on meet.jit.si. We rolled out a new release yesterday and we want to tell you all about it!

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JaaS: the Team that Builds Jitsi Can Now Also Run it for You!

TL;DR The Jitsi team at 8×8 are proud to announce the brand new and awesome Jitsi as a Service: world’s easiest way to embed video meetings in your apps and websites! All the power of […]

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New mobile releases and open beta access

Hi there Fellow Jitsters! Today we are happy to announce Jitsi Meet for mobile 19.4! You can check the release notes here, but we’d like to talk about a couple of the new features here, […]

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JVB 2.0: preparing our video router for the next 10 years of video conferencing

Today we’d like to share a very important milestone for the Jitsi project: we just finalized the first version of JVB 2.0, the evolution of our trusty Jitsi Videobridge. What is the JVB? You may […]

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Jitsi + Solaborate HELLO 2

So, here’s something cool: Solaborate just announced support for Jitsi Meet in their HELLO 2 camera. Check out the demo, it looks pretty slick: Happy to announce that Jitsi Meet now works with HELLO 2. […]

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Communications Transformed: A Jitsi Episode

On this episode of the Communications Transformed podcast, Randy chats to Emil Ivov, Jitsi’s Founder and Project Lead. Emil talks about how Jitsi got started and how open source has been the cornerstone of our […]

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Jitsi at IIT-RTC 2018 – Cost Optimizing & P2P4121

The Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago holds a Real Time Communications Conference – the IIT-RTC Conference – every year where Jitsi has been a regular presenter. This year, Senior Jitsi Developer and University of […]

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Jitsi Meet now with Google and Microsoft calendar support

Meetings are often hard to manage without the help of a calendar app which is why we are very happy to announce Jitsi Meet’s latest feature: the ability to connect your Google or Microsoft calendar […]

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GSoC 2018 Results

We are happy to present the results of another year with the Google Summer of Code program. We had three students complete phase 2 of the program and all of them went on to complete […]

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Use Jitsi with Slack Today!

World’s most powerful open video conferencing platform now also available for Slack! Enable Jitsi for your team today https://jitsi.org/slack

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Seen the news?

Hey all, we’ve been having plenty of questions so quick update: the recent news you have seen about Atlassian does not affect Jitsi. We are keeping course! So, have a great day everyone!

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meet.jit.si now fully available over IPv6

This would have been hard to believe a few years ago but, today, there are a number of cases where one could find themselves in an IPv6-only network. For example, accessing the Internet from some […]

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New Jitsi Meet mobile versions released!

With 2017 close to ending, we have one more Jitsi Meet mobile release for you! In this release we focused on two main areas: the welcome page and error handling. The welcome page has been […]

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Improving WebRTC Call Quality with Machine Learning. Check out Emil’s talk from Kranky Geek 2017

One of the most challenging problems in Video transport is the ability to determine exactly how much data exactly one can send without overwhelming their peer. In this video Emil talks about how machine learning […]

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Matrix adds support for video with Jitsi

Our friends from Matrix have just finished their Jitsi integration and now have first class video conferencing support! Go Matrix!

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A speech-to-text prototype

We now have a working prototype of speech-to-text in jitsi-meet, implemented as part of jigasi. In this first version the transcribed text is just added to the chat, but a better interface is in the […]

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P2P4121

If you are wondering, we use this for: “Peer-to-peer for 1 to 1″. It does what it says: every time there are only two participants in a call, instead of using Jitsi Videobridge, Jitsi Meet […]

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Jitsi on the VUC

Check out episode 651 the VoIP User’s Conference with Jitsi’s Saul Ibarra Corretge and Emil Ivov, for an update on Jitsi’s latest and greatest. And, of course, the call was hosted on Jitsi Meet. Try it […]

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Adaptivity

Alright Everybody, this is a big one! We have been at it for about 10 months now and we are really, really, really happy to now bring it to you. Adaptivity is all about getting Jitsi […]

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Speaker Times in Jitsi Meet

Speaker Times in Jitsi Meet Ever felt like your standups are taking more time than they should be? Or maybe wondered whether you spoke for longer than you let your peers respond? Well, we certainly did! […]

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Control the Volume for Every Meet Participant

Ever been in a situation where one of your contacts comes through really loudly, while another one is almost silent and you have to constantly play with your volume in order to have a productive […]

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