Editing Jitsi (section)

== Starting a meeting on Jitsi ==

The first person to join one of our meeting rooms on Jitsi Meet must log in with Google, Facebook, or GitHub in order to start the meeting. This is a [https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/ Jitsi Meet policy change as of August 2023]; the only way around it is to self-host our own Jitsi instance.

Once someone logs in with their Google, Facebook, or GitHub account and starts the meeting, other people can join anonymously, even after the person who started the meeting has left. So you can start the meeting and then leave as soon as at least one other person has arrived; their presence alone will hold the metaphorical gate open.