An awesome list of open-source or low-cost software useful for organising conferences, symposia, workshops and all kinds of events, with an added focus on live streaming.
- Event Organisation
- Ticketing
- Presentation Tools
- Peer Review
- Audience Interaction
- Volunteer Organisation
- Countdown Timers
- Web Streaming
- Signage
- Guides
Tools responsible for event registration, scheduling and archival.
- 📃 Indico by CERN
- 📃 Pretalx
- 📃 Open Source Event Manager (OSEM)
- 📃 Drupal Conference Organizing Distribution
- 📃 Open Event
- 📃 Mini-Conf
- 📃 frab
- 📃 OpenCFP
- 📃 OpenConferenceWare
Tools whose main focus is attendee registration and ticket issuance.
Everyone's favourite software to make slide decks or fancy animations.
- 📃 Beamer: LaTeX's most popular presentation template
- 📃 LibreOffice Impress
- 📃 Pympress: A convenient tool to properly present PDF files
- 👓 List of markdown presentation tools
- 💲 Microsoft Powerpoint
- 💲 Apple Keynote
- 💲 Google Slides
- 💲 Canva
- 📃 IndiQA
- 📃 SpeakerChat
- 📃 Ontime
- 💲 stagetimer.io
Everything you need to connect with speakers and/or participants across the globe.
- 📃 BigBlueButton
- 📃 Jitsi Meet
- 📃 Revolt
These platforms allow extracting individual audio/video feeds from each participant:
A number of commonly available paid tools also support some of these features:
- 💲 Zoom Rooms (NDI)
- 💲 VideoCom Zoom Bridge (NDI)
- 💲 Microsoft Teams (NDI)
- 💲 Webex (NDI)
- 💲 Epiphan Connect (SRT)
- 💲 vMix Call
Graphics tools allow showing live, real-time graphics in your live stream or to your presenters, and are usually easy to integrate with existing vision mixers.
- 📃 socialstream.ninja (live social messaging feeds)
- 📃 NodeCG (general graphics based on Javascript)
- 📃 SPX-GC (general graphics for CasparCG or VDO softwre)
- 💲 H2R Graphics (general production graphics, offline)
- 💲 gfx.live (general production graphics, online)
- 📃 CasparCG
- 📃 SuperConductor: A CasparCG client
- 💲 Tapedeck: A web-based CasparCG client
- 📃 Bitfocus Companion: An action & integration controller designed around Elgato's Streamdeck
- 📃 Chataigne: A modular interactive designer for art and technology
- 📃 TouchOSC: A modular touch-based control surface
- 💲 Dashmaster 2K: Interactive dashboards
Useful pre-built template websites for your event.
- anjuan/speaker-agreement: Contract between event organisers and speakers
Awesome Conference Practices
- An improvised list of opensource conference management software
- How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix
- Streaming with FFmpeg
- The Software Sustainability Institute's Event Organisation Guide (SSI-EOG)
- The Less Obvious Conference Checklist
Contributions welcome! If you have used or heard good words about an open-source tool useful for any kinds of events, feel free to submit a Pull Request!