galene

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The Galène videoconference server

ApplicationCategory: Web AppsOpen sourcedata checked Oct 16, 2026

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Overview

file-sharing
galene
sfu
video-conference
video-conferencing
videoconference
webapp
webrtc

Installation

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galene.org/ ↗
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Build from source: no validated build recipe — follow the repository instructions.
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Compatibility

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Platform	Status	Architecture	Evidence	Confidence
Web browser	Unknown	—	—	—
Server / self-hosted	Unknown	—	—	—
Container (OCI)	Unknown	—	—	—

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Quality profile

algorithm quality-v1.0 · assessed Oct 16, 2026

Quality Score66

Risk Score0

Confidence 1.00

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Maintenance · 2020

last activity 11 days ago

Documentation · 1511

README 1680 chars, description present

Ready to use · 150

install instructions: no; releases: no

Metadata · 1010

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Releases · 102

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Category confidence · 105

classifier confidence 0.5

Adoption · 108

1418 stars (log-dampened, 10k = max)

License clarity · 55

SPDX MIT

Community · 55

issues enabled, 202 forks

License

MIT

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github.com/jech/galenePrimary★ 1,418 starslast activity Oct 4, 2026Primary repository · Confidence 1.00

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README

From jech/galene · license MIT · fetched Oct 30, 2026

The Galene videoconferencing system

Galene is a fully-featured videoconferencing system that is easy to deploy and requires very moderate server resources. It is described at https://galene.org.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/jech/galene
cd galene
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags='-s -w'
mkdir groups
echo '{"users": {"vimes": {"password":"sybil", "permissions":"op"}}}' > groups/night-watch.json
./galene &

Point your browser at https://localhost:8443/group/night-watch/, ignore the unknown certificate warning, and log in with username vimes and password sybil.

For full installation instructions, please see the file galene-install.md in this directory.

Documentation

galene-install.md: full installation instructions
galene.md: usage and administration;
galene-client.md: writing clients;
galene-protocol.md: the client protocol;
galene-api.md: Galene's administrative API.

Contributing

In order to contribute to Galene, you may:

send patches to the Galene mailing list by sending mail to galene@lists.galene.org;
submit pull requests on GitHub.

For general discussion, please use the Galene mailing list (feel free to send mail without subscribing). Please do not use Github for general discussion.

Further information

Galène's web page is at https://galene.org.

Answers to common questions and issues are at https://galene.org/faq.html.

-- Juliusz Chroboczek https://www.irif.fr/~jch/

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