My small company (less than 30 employees) has been using Skype for internal group meetings and messaging. Since it’s closing, we’re looking for alternatives.

I think few people in the company are privacy minded (one of the higher ups had to get scolded to stop using some random AI to listen to all his meetings and write summaries), so we need something with a low barrier to entry.

We have basically no IT department, so self hosting would be a challenge. We do self host a redmine server via docker, and we have to connect to it via VPN when we’re off-site (we have several full time remote employees).

Our feature requirements are:

-Group and individual messaging

-Screen sharing

-Meetings up to 2 hours

-Inexpensive

-Meetings with up to 10 participants

-Windows (some people use Skype from their phones also, but not a requirement)

-Minimal friction to setup and use

-Minimal bugs (mature)

Some of the ideas floated:

-Teams

-Discord

-Google Meet

-Signal

-Telegram

-Jami

I really don’t think we could pull off Matrix, but am I wrong? Which of these ideas bothers you the least? Is there something else I’m overlooking?

    • Kissaki@programming.devEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Your sound file is then sent to our not-for-profit association’s servers, where free software installed by us will transcribe it. These files will be automatically deleted after processing.

      In complete privacy, but sending it to them? I expected something different from the “complete privacy” label/claim.

      Is Lokas RGPD compliant?

      From a legal point of view: it’s a work in progress.

      [Framasoft, the publisher of Lokas, is] A non-profit association founded in 2004, financed by your donations, which is limited to a dozen employees and about thirty volunteers (a group of friends!)