Briefing
holtwick/briefing
An open-source alternative to Google Meet and Zoom.
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- Stars
- 1,633
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Last push
- 2025-12-03
- Written in
- TypeScript
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Slowing
Last push 11 months ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Older
v3.1.12, 11 months ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
86% closed
19 open · 113 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+1 in 9 days
1,633 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
Network copyleftAGPL-3.0
Like the GPL, and offering a modified version to users over a network counts: they are owed its source.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Briefing’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.
Briefing against the other open-source options
Every project offered against Google Meet and Zoom, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jitsi | 30,104 | Active | Permissive | ○ | TypeScript |
 BigBlueButton | 9,247 | Active | Weak copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
 MiroTalk P2P | 4,799 | Active | Network copyleft | Compose | JavaScript |
| Mirotalk | 3,130 | Active | Network copyleft | Compose | JavaScript |
 Briefing (this page) | 1,633 | Slowing | Network copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with Google Meet and Zoom and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data