Galene
Video conferencing server that is easy to deploy and that requires moderate server resources.
Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.
Commit activity more than 29% of tracked projects; popularity more than 41%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.4k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Go |
Is Galene actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 94 commits, of which 57 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 19 commits a month.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 148% more commits than the one before it.
No tagged releases are published, so there is no stable version to pin to — you would deploy from the default branch or a container image built from it.
Galene ranks #7 of 10 tracked communication - video conferencing projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Galene actually does
Galene is a self-hosted video conferencing server written in Go and distributed under the MIT licence. It facilitates multi-party audio and video communication while operating on moderate hardware requirements. Because official release tags are absent, installations typically rely on building directly from the source repository.
Best fit: A suitable choice if you need a straightforward, lightweight video meeting tool and prefer a simpler alternative to resource-heavy WebRTC stacks.
Worth knowing: Development activity has slowed down significantly, and the lack of standard tagged releases makes tracking stable versions and applying updates more cumbersome.
Deployment notes
As a Go application, it typically compiles into a single binary that requires a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination and HTTPS traffic.
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