13 Facts About Jitsi

Jitsi is a collection of free and open-source multiplatform voice, video conferencing and instant messaging applications for the web platform, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.

Later the team added Jitsi Meet, a full video conferencing application that includes web, Android, and iOS clients.

Jitsi has received support from various institutions such as the NLnet Foundation, the University of Strasbourg and the Region of Alsace, the European Commission and it has had multiple participations in the Google Summer of Code program.

Work on Jitsi started in 2003 in the context of a student project by Emil Ivov at the University of Strasbourg.

Jitsi introduced the Videobridge in 2013 to support multiparty video calling with its Jitsi clients using a new Selective Forwarding Unit architecture.

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Later that year initial support was added to the Jitsi Videobridge allowing WebRTC calling from the browser.

Jitsi Meet is an open source JavaScript WebRTC application used primarily for video conferencing.

The Jitsi Meet server software can be downloaded and installed on Linux-based computers.

Jitsi Videobridge is a video conferencing solution supporting WebRTC that allows multiuser video communication.

Jitsi Desktop is no longer actively maintained by the Jitsi team, but it is still maintained by the community.

Jitsi has been well adopted in not-for-profit tech sector as default alternative to corporate tools.

In mid March 2020 popular Lyon-based tech NGO Framasoft reported that their Jitsi servers were even overloaded by use of state institutions.

Jitsi has been test-used as Wikimedia Meet in Wikimedia Foundation on Wikimedia Cloud Services since spring 2020, with high adoption rates initially but mixed reviews.