About Kyela

It is an approximate phonetic transcription of the question "Who is there?" in French.

The official name is "Kyela" (without an accent) to improve accessibility. In many countries, French accents are not easy to type on a keyboard. However, accents add a nice aesthetic touch, which can be used here and there to give it a little "French touch."

Kyélà is a software application that anyone can install on their own server. Kyela.net is an instance of this application, accessible to everyone via a web browser.

Yes.

Yes. The license used (Affero GPL) makes it almost impossible to create a paid service based on Kyélà.

No, all features are available to everyone.

No.

No third-party or tracking cookies, only functional cookies.

There isn't one. It just takes a little time and provides the pleasure of creating something useful.

Yes! If you are a Symfony developer, visit GitHub (link in the footer) and contribute to the project. If you are a graphic designer, you can create a logo, a favicon, or graphic themes for Kyélà. As a user, you can report any issues you encounter; a precise description of a reproducible bug greatly helps in solving the problem.

Yes, by spreading the word about Kyélà.

Not yet. This option will be considered if Kyela.net becomes very successful and a more powerful server needs to be rented.

No. The tools are similar, but the core idea is not original. Similar tools already existed before Doodle.

Framadate and STUdS offer similar features with the same free and open-source spirit as Kyélà.

Kyela.net does not require an email or registration. If you have entered your real name or any other personal information in a poll, you can simply edit or delete it by accessing the poll.

No, except with law enforcement upon judicial request.

Kyela.net is hosted in Switzerland and is subject to Swiss law. This law requires server logs to be kept for one year and provided to law enforcement upon judicial request. These logs, which contain IP addresses, allow easy identification of users. In other words, using Kyela.net to plan something illegal is a very bad idea.