{"repo":"twpro8/lumiere","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/twpro8/lumiere","clone":"git clone https://github.com/twpro8/lumiere.git","description":"Lumiere is a communication platform bringing messaging, communities, and real-time voice and video into one self-hostable app.","language":"Python","stars":10,"topics":["communication","community"],"license":"MIT","category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"🌟 Lumière Own your communication An open-source, self-hostable platform for messaging and communities — with voice, video, and screen sharing coming soon Why Lumiere? Most chat platforms ask you to trust someone else with your community. Your servers, your history, your members, your uptime — all sitting on infrastructure you don't control and can't inspect, subject to rules you didn't write. Lumiere takes a different approach: run it yoursel It's built for people who would rather host their own infrastructure than rent access to someone else's — friend groups, gaming communities, teams, open-source projects, or organizations that want a communication platform that answers to them, not to a Terms of Service page. In that sense, Lumiere sits closer to projects like Jellyfin, Forgejo, Matrix, and Nextcloud than it does to any commercial chat SaaS: software you deploy, run, modify, and trust because you can see how it works. That philosophy shapes every decision in this project: - Ownership — if you run Lumiere, the deployment, the data, and the decisions about it are yours. - Independence — no proprietary backend, no vendor lock-in, no dependency on a company staying in business. - Simplicity — self-hosting should be realistic for a small team or a single hobbyist, not just a large org with dedicated ops staff. - Transparency — the whole stack is open source; there is nothing about how Lumiere works that isn't inspectable. - Extensibility — a modular architecture that's meant ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/twpro8","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/twpro8/lumiere/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}