Planado is intended as a simple, lightweight and easy to host planing and room reservation tool for Jitsi-Meet.
We felt the need to be able to plan Videoconferences in Jitsi-Meet, where it is possible to publicly post an invite link without someone else being able to occupy the designated room. Of course the essence of Jitsi-Meet with broad anonymity of the users and temporary rooms on-demand should still be preserved.
We came up with an easy solution called "Planado"! All it does is offering a unique, extremely hard to guess Jitsi-Meet room and a secondary invite-URL which you can post publically, but which does not allow to know the rooms name before the conference starts.
The beauty of Planado lies within the fact, that there are no special requirements on the Jitsi-Meet side. In fact, the Jitsi-Meet instance does not even need to be aware of Planado at all. This means, that one may host Planado for other, public Jitsi-Meet instances. No additional stress is put onto these Jitsi-Meet instances and no special configurations are required.
A properly configured instance of Planado stores data only temporary, until the meeting is over. Additionally, as little information as possible is stored and none of the information is either confidential or personal. Hence Plenado is GPDR compliant and privacy aware by default. It respects the user's right for informational self-determination and does not track users. It does only one simple job and nothing else.
Planado is a relatively simple construct. In essence, it consists of a simple
form, where users plan their meetings (index.php), a script that books the
meeting and returns some invite-URL to the user (booking.php) which then can
be forwarded to others. This script also communicates to a database, storing the
room-ID, the invite-ID and the time-stamp the meeting is supposed to start at.
Use it in action here: planado.vioffice.de
As used for ViOffice, where this project started to exist: conference.vioffice.de (not public)
