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OpenSpeak

What is OpenSpeak?

OpenSpeak is an open-source web application for planning and running structured, timed meetings. It was born for Toastmasters-style club meetings — where every speech, evaluation, and report has a minimum, target, and maximum time — but it works for any meeting that should respect the clock.

The 30-second mental model

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  1. Build an agenda — an ordered list of items, each with a min / expected / max time and, optionally, a person responsible for it.
  2. Run the meeting — put the display screen on a projector, keep the control screen open on a phone. The timer changes color as time passes (green → yellow → red), and nothing ever advances until someone taps a button.
  3. Read the report — after the meeting (or during it), see the actual time spent on every item and every speaker, compared to the plan.

That’s the whole product. Everything else — speaker rounds, CSV import, templates, QR codes — supports one of those three steps.

Who can see and edit what

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OpenSpeak has no logins and no user accounts. Anyone who can reach the URL can view and edit every agenda, run every meeting, and read every report.

This is a deliberate design for a single club or team running its own private instance: share the link, and everyone can help. It also means you should not expose an OpenSpeak instance to the open internet unless that is what you want — put it behind your own network, VPN, or reverse-proxy access control if you need to restrict access.

Making it yours

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Two small personalization options live in the page header on every screen, and are remembered per browser:

  • Palette — cycles through six color themes: Sandy (default), Olive, Contrast light, Contrast dark, Midnight, and Frost.
  • Font — cycles through four typefaces.

One thing never changes with the palette: the timer colors during a meeting (white, green, yellow, red) are fixed, mirroring the physical timing cards used in Toastmasters clubs.

Where to next

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