I made quite a bit of money as a freelancer at the start of covid setting up Jitsi servers for clients - it isn't easy... especially when you start to have multiple servers etc

> A monolith doesn't seem superior except for the very smallest deployments

True. Galene is designed to encourage small deployments: it's a single binary that is simple enough and cheap enough so that every high school can have their own instance and not rely on an external IT team.

For large deployments, where accidental complexity is not as much of an issue, you'd most probably want to use some more complex and more flexible software.

> Pyrite is a web(RTC) client for the Galène videoconference server.

So probably a play on the name of the parent project.

“ I searched where the name Galene came from and learned that it is a lead-containing mineral. It would only be logical to name this side-project after another mineral. Pyrite, or a fool's gold, felt to be a good description.”

Not to be confused with https://github.com/microsoft/pyright and dozens more smaller projects.