Jitsi

Welcome to a new edition of Open Pioneers - your weekly update from the forefront of open source. Today, we talk about:

• Jitsi - an open source alternative to Zoom

• New open source projects started last week: MoneyPrinter, QR file share, Nucleo AI

• Fundraising news from Flower Labs, Zylon

• More open source content

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🔍 Spotlight: Jitsi

Jitsi is a secure, simple, and scalable video conference solution that you can use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.

Using Jitsi is straightforward, as it's browser-based. It's scalable and free to use. All you need is a Google, Facebook, or GitHub account in order to start a meeting. The app supports all browsers and comes with mobile apps for iOS and Android. Lately, the team behind Jitsi Meet also started offering a hosted service called “Jitsi as a Service”.

The open source project was already started in 2014 and gained a lot of popularity in the Covid crisis. Today, Jitsi Meet has over 21k GitHub stars and is distributed under Apache 2.0 license.

Learn more about Jitsi: Website | Twitter | GitHub

🔥 New open source projects started last week

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🦄 Fundraising news

• Flower Labs, a federated and decentralized AI learning framework, announced their $20M Series A. [Link]

• Zylon, the creators of privateGPT, raised $3.2M in Pre-Seed funding. [Link]

📚 More open source content

• Why Sequoia is funding open source developers via a new equity-free fellowship. [Link]

• Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Paying people to work on open source is good actually. [Link]

• The rise of open source startups in France. [Link]

Until next week,

Jonathan (@jonathimer)