If an assembly needs motions, amendments, speaker lists, and secret ballots on one shared screen, OpenSlides is the open-source web application that runs them. Before the meeting, administrators set up committees and meetings, import participants from CSV or connect a SAML identity provider for single sign-on, email invitations with login data, and sort people into groups with freely defined rights. Members file motions in an HTML editor, attach documents, gather supporters, and send them through customizable workflows with automatic numbering by category, and amendments and change recommendations attach to specific line numbers. Motions can be forwarded to other meetings. During the session the agenda reorders by drag and drop, and every item, motion, or election gets its own speaker list with countdowns, points of order, and recorded speaking time. Votes are open, secret, or nominal and run live for present participants in voting groups, with proxy delegation, vote weighting, multiple rounds, and Yes/No/Abstain options per candidate or list. Results appear against a chosen reference value on projectors, in PDF exports, or as individual tallies. Several projectors can show the current item, a lower third for the active speaker, and live results, and Autopilot guides participants through whatever is happening. A video livestream brings in remote attendees. Afterward, motions export to PDF, CSV, or XLSX. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

What Doodle did before ads and paywalls took over: Rallly (three L's) lets you propose a few dates, share a link, and watch an availability grid fill in - no email threads, no forced accounts, no "$6.95/month to remove ads." The availability grid makes the winning slot obvious at a glance, comments on each poll keep the "I can do Tuesday if we start late" discussion attached to the decision instead of buried in chat, and email notifications fire as votes and comments arrive. When consensus lands, finalize the winning option and everyone gets notified. The stack is modern TypeScript - Next.js, tRPC, Prisma over PostgreSQL, Tailwind - with a clean, genuinely mobile-friendly UI, dark mode, and community translations in 10+ languages. Self-hosting means unlimited polls and unlimited participants with meeting data on your server rather than a scheduling SaaS. It pairs naturally with Cal.com: Rallly answers "which time works for everyone?", Cal.com handles "book a slot on my calendar." AGPL-licensed.

Passive slide decks put audiences to sleep, which is why Claper turns any presentation into a two-way live session where every attendee can vote in polls, submit questions, and react in real time from their phone. Speakers upload existing PDF or PowerPoint decks directly into the web studio and interleave interactive poll, quiz, form, and web embed slides between their static pages without rebuilding presentations from scratch. Conference organizers and educators share a short join code or QR link so hundreds of participants can enter the attendee room instantly from any mobile browser without installing an app or creating an account. During the talk, the presenter console displays incoming audience questions sorted by upvote popularity, alongside moderation controls to approve, pin, hide, or mark inquiries as answered on the main screen. Live polling supports multiple-choice, rating scale, and open-text prompts that animate into real-time bar charts and percentage breakdowns as votes arrive, while timed quizzes grade participant responses automatically. Integrated real-time speech transcription generates live captions and searchable session transcripts so international and hearing-impaired attendees can follow every spoken word. Universities and corporate training teams connect Claper directly to Moodle or OpenID Connect identity providers via LTI 1.3 to synchronize student rosters, push quiz scores to gradebooks, and export complete CSV engagement reports after every session. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

By turning any browser into an interactive trivia controller and live scoreboard, Razzia gives event hosts, educators, and communities a self-hosted multiplayer quiz platform that replaces Kahoot. Players join in seconds with a six-digit room PIN or scannable QR code on their smartphones, while the host drives the shared screen from a password-protected manager console. Build quizzes directly inside the browser-based editor or import portable JSON files with single-choice, multiple-choice, numeric estimation, and ungraded survey questions. Attach images, audio clips, or video files up to 100 MB to any prompt, group questions into themed round categories, and display explanatory notes when correct answers are revealed. Scoring adapts to your rules: reward fast responses with time-weighted points, apply strict, balanced, or lenient multi-select grading, deduct penalties for wrong guesses, or switch to survey mode to gather live audience polls without a leaderboard. Hosts can lock rooms mid-game, enable automatic nickname generation, hide question prompts on player screens, and configure auto-advance timers between rounds. Drop a custom theme file and logos into the branding folder to white-label colors, fonts, and backgrounds, or connect physical ESP32 hardware buzzers over the documented WebSocket protocol. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

In-app, website, link, and email surveys feed one open-source experience management platform: Formbricks. Its distinguishing strength is targeted in-app research: a JavaScript SDK triggers surveys on user events and attributes, with segmentation rules like "power users who have not seen a survey in 10 days," so questions reach the right cohort at the right moment instead of a mass email blast. The no-code editor offers 20+ question types including NPS, CSAT, CES, matrix, ranking, and file upload, with skip logic, conditional branching, best-practice templates, and full brand theming. Responses feed built-in analytics with summaries and CSV/JSON export, and integrations push data to Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, and n8n, with webhooks and an open API on every tier. Because self-hosted surveys load from your own domain rather than a blacklisted third-party script host, ad blockers do not suppress them - in-app surveys reach users that Hotjar-style tools silently miss, which measurably raises response rates. Self-hosting also removes the third-party sub-processor from your privacy policy entirely: survey responses often contain PII, and keeping them on your own server matters for GDPR-sensitive and regulated industries. The Community Edition has no response caps or tier-gated features, so core functionality and your data stay accessible regardless of any subscription. Next.js on PostgreSQL, AGPLv3.

Typeform's conversational format, self-hosted: HeyForm is the open-source form builder that presents one question at a time. Forms present one question at a time, which measurably improves completion rates compared to long static pages. It supports 40+ field types, from text, email, and phone inputs to picture choices, date pickers, star ratings, signatures, and file uploads. Conditional logic shows or hides questions based on earlier answers, routes respondents to different endings, and redirects to URLs, so a single form can serve multiple flows. Completed submissions land in a results dashboard with drop-off and completion analytics, and connect outward through webhooks or integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, and Slack. Theming covers fonts, colors, backgrounds, and custom CSS, so embedded forms look native to your site rather than like a third-party widget; the JavaScript embed library renders them inline, as popups, or full-page, with shareable standalone links as the default. Team workspaces and projects with member management let multiple teams share one instance without mixing data. Self-hosting removes per-response pricing entirely - unlimited forms and submissions for flat hosting cost - and keeps lead data, feedback, and quiz answers in your own MongoDB, simplifying GDPR compliance. The stack is a NestJS server and React webapp backed by MongoDB and KeyDB, distributed under GPLv3 as a Docker image.

With 3,500+ GitHub stars and 100+ pre-built templates, OpnForm delivers a drag-and-drop form builder that handles everything from simple contact forms to multi-page surveys with conditional branching, calculations, and payment collection. The Laravel 11 API paired with a Nuxt 3 Vue frontend provides a responsive no-code editor supporting 20+ field types including text, date, file upload, signature capture, star ratings, phone numbers with country codes, and rich text. Conditional logic enables dynamic show/hide rules, required-field toggling, and calculated values that react to user input in real time. Submissions flow through configurable integrations — Slack notifications, Discord webhooks, Zapier connections to 5,000+ apps, Google Sheets sync, and custom webhook endpoints with full payload control. AI-powered form generation lets users describe a form in plain language and receive a ready-to-publish result. OIDC single sign-on with configurable state enforcement secures multi-user workspaces, while form-level passwords and CAPTCHA protection guard public-facing pages. Analytics dashboards track submission rates, completion times, and drop-off points. Forms embed via iframe on any website, Notion page, or custom domain with removable branding and custom CSS/JavaScript injection. The Docker Compose stack bundles the API, queue worker, scheduler, Nuxt client, PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7, and Nginx ingress proxy for a single-command deployment. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPLv3 licensed.

SurveyKing combines survey creation and online examination in a single platform — generate complete questionnaires from plain English via built-in LLM integration, administer timed exams with anti-cheating proctoring, and collect structured data through 20+ question types including matrix questions, cascading selectors, file uploads, and electronic signatures. Built on Spring Boot 3 with a React and TypeScript frontend using the UMI framework and Ant Design components, version 1.12 delivers each question type with independent validation rules, data type controls, and formula calculations. The AI engine connects to mainstream LLMs for survey generation from natural language prompts and provides real-time answer explanations during practice sessions. Exam mode features item banks with Word and Excel bulk import, fixed and randomized question selection, composite paper assembly, live proctoring dashboards with anti-cheating controls, automatic and manual grading with per-question scoring, and PDF score report archiving. The visual logic designer and DSL expression engine handle show/hide conditions, required rules, skip branching, quota controls, randomization, and cross-tabulation analysis with SPSS export. Role-based access controls support multi-user collaboration with department and permission management via Spring Security and JWT authentication. Redis handles caching and queuing while MyBatis Plus manages database operations. Deploy via a single Docker command with embedded H2 for trials or Docker Compose with MySQL for production. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Created by Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow, and battle-tested for over a decade with 47,600+ GitHub stars, Discourse powers community forums for GitHub, Docker, Rust, Netlify, and thousands of organizations worldwide. The platform combines long-form threaded discussion with built-in real-time chat, enabling communities to move fluidly between asynchronous conversations and live interaction. Five automated trust levels progressively unlock permissions — posting links, editing wiki posts, flagging content, and moderating — based on reading time, post count, and community engagement, reducing spam and abuse without manual intervention. The Discourse AI plugin integrates with OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted HuggingFace endpoints for automated topic summarization, sentiment analysis, semantic search, and AI-assisted content triage. Over 200 official and community plugins extend functionality with features like the Data Explorer for ad-hoc SQL queries against the forum database, polls, solved-topic marking, voting, calendar events, and custom user fields. SSO and OAuth support connects Google, Facebook, Apple, GitHub, and SAML identity providers, while reply-by-email and mailing list mode let users participate entirely through their inbox. The Ember.js single-page frontend delivers responsive performance across all devices with PWA support and web push notifications. Deployment uses Docker via the official discourse_docker launcher with automatic Let's Encrypt HTTPS, resource scaling based on server hardware, and support for single-container or multi-container configurations. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL v2.0 licensed.

Workplace and Yammer's pattern on your own server, with GDPR compliance by construction rather than contract: HumHub is an open-source enterprise social network from Germany. Built in PHP on Yii2, it organizes everything around four concepts. Users get rich profiles with follows and interactions. Spaces are the structural unit - rooms for departments, projects, events, or clubs, with per-Space permissions, notification settings, and email summaries, and operators can auto-map users into the right Spaces. Content covers posts, wiki pages, photos and video, events, and tasks, with multi-level comments, versioning, archiving, moderation reporting, and filterable full-text search across everything. Modules make it a platform: roughly 80 install-and-activate extensions including Calendar, Wiki, Polls, Tasks, Gallery, News, direct-message Mail, OnlyOffice document editing, Advanced LDAP, SAML and JWT SSO, a RESTful API, mass user import, Translation Manager, and a Theme Builder with custom pages - every one optional and toggleable at runtime. That module economy is why HumHub serves such varied deployments: corporate intranets, city governments, universities, political parties, and nonprofits all configure the same core differently. Requirements are a plain LAMP stack - PHP 8.1+ and MySQL/MariaDB - making it one of the easiest community platforms to operate long-term.

Talkyard combines five discussion formats in one platform: StackOverflow-style Q&A with accepted answers, Reddit-like upvote sorting for ideas, threaded forums, real-time chat channels, and embeddable blog comments. Running separate tools for each conversation type fragments community knowledge across disconnected systems, but Talkyard keeps it all searchable in one place. Question askers mark accepted answers, and community voting surfaces the best solutions for future visitors. Idea topics sort by upvotes for crowdsourced feedback prioritization and product decisions. Chat channels handle real-time day-to-day conversation, while forum threads preserve important discussions that need to remain findable months later. The embedding capability goes beyond blog comments: entire Talkyard forums can live inside iframes on your existing website with automatic deep-linking and iframe auto-resizing, adding community discussion to any page without rebuilding your site. Docker Compose containers run with dropped capabilities, no-new-privileges enforcement, non-root processes, health checks, and automatic log rotation. Multi-site hosting serves multiple communities from one installation with isolated databases and separate domains. Automated upgrades pull new images and restart services without intervention. ElasticSearch indexes every discussion format for instant full-text search. The Scala backend with TypeScript frontend stores data in PostgreSQL with automatic Let's Encrypt HTTPS. Runs on a RepoCloud VPS with guaranteed CPU, RAM, SSD, root SSH, and browser console. AGPL licensed.

Admidio is membership management software for clubs, associations, and groups, built so that every permission follows from the roles a person holds. Organizers define roles such as board, youth team, or trainers, decide who may email or see each one, and grant module rights like managing events, editing contacts, or uploading photos with simple switches. Contact records use customizable profile fields, record relationships such as parent and child, and can be imported in bulk or exported as vCards. New members register online and administrators review each request. Events carry dates, venues, calendars, and participant lists with sign-up, and the schedule downloads as iCal. Messages go as HTML email to individuals, roles, or groups, and members also find announcements, a categorized forum, document folders with role-based access, and photo albums with e-cards. The inventory manager tracks equipment, who holds it, and its borrowing history. Optional two-factor login protects accounts, a change history can be switched on for every module, and single sign-on lets other applications authenticate against the member database. Twenty-five languages are included, the interface installs as a progressive web app, and sub-organizations can be managed from the same installation. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

From the call for abstracts to the badge handed over at the registration desk, Indico handles every step of running a conference, plus the weekly meetings and one-off lectures that fill the calendar around it. Events live in a nested tree of categories, and access rules can be set per category, event, session, or single contribution, with custom roles inside each event. Speakers submit abstracts, track reviewers score them against questions the organizers define, judges accept or reject them, and accepted talks become contributions that sit in a drag-and-drop timetable of color-coded sessions. Registration forms are assembled field by field, carry fees, and take payment through PayPal, Stripe, or SIX Payment plugins; attendees get QR-coded tickets, and a badge editor prints name tags for the whole room. A paper reviewing workflow collects full papers. Meeting pages keep minutes and slide decks attached to the talk they belong to. The room booking module adds approvals, recurring reservations, and audiovisual equipment, and the Zoom plugin creates online sessions straight from an event page. Calendar views span a month, week, or day, filter by category, and export to iCal for subscriptions. Scripts pull event data from the HTTP export API as JSON or XML with personal API tokens. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

In continuous open-source development since 2009, Etherpad is the original really-real-time collaborative editor - used by Wikimedia, governments, EU public-sector institutions, and tens of thousands of self-hosters. Its core idea is visible authorship: every keystroke is attributed with author colors, every revision preserved, and the timeslider lets you scrub through a document's entire history character by character. Multiple people type into the same pad and see each other's changes instantly - it scales to thousands of simultaneous editors per pad. The base install is deliberately lightweight; capability comes from roughly 290 plugins installable from the admin web UI: comments, images, tables, drawing, video chat via WebRTC, math rendering, code highlighting, and authentication via OAuth, LDAP, or OpenID. AI is pointedly a plugin, not a default - you choose the model and infrastructure, or never turn it on. There is no telemetry. For integrators, an HTTP API (with OpenAPI definitions at /api/openapi.json) manages pads, users, and groups for embedding in your own applications, and the ueberDB abstraction layer supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and SQLite backends. Full data export is built in, the format is open, it is translated into 105 languages, and it runs on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a server farm. Apache 2.0 licensed, Node.js based.