[FSFE-Manc] [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives

[Anna Morris]

hum - see it sound so very complicated :S I just like to advance to go if
you know what I mean. I will look into it :)

Best

Anna

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/01/13 23:00, Anna Morris wrote:
>
> > I hope there will soon be a really good free software video option. Sam
> and
> > I tried to call pidgin to pidgin on the FSFE jabber server the other day.
> > It worked when we were in the same room at the sprint, but it didn't work
> > at a distance sadly.
>
> Anna, have you tried using a TURN server to relay the calls over NAT?
> You will need to check that Pidgin supports TURN - Jitsi definitely
> supports it
>
> There are two TURN servers that I have packaged on Debian, for example:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=resiprocate-turn-server
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/turnserver
>
> and one of them is now in Ubuntu too:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+package/resiprocate-turn-server
>
> You can build either of them from source on many other platforms
>
>
> > Best
> >
> > Anna
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > FOSDEM update... leaders of open source VoIP, real-time communication,
> > micro-blogging and social networking projects are coming together at
> > FOSDEM to try and answer some of the concerns that were raised in the
> > FSF Europe report about the hunt for Skype alternative
> >
> > Here is an interview:
> >
> >
> >
> https://fosdem.org/2013/interviews/2013-daniel-pocock-and-peter-saint-andre-and-simon-tennant-and-evan-prodromou-and-daniel-constantin-mierla-and-emil-ivov/
> >
> > and here it is in the schedule (14:00 on Sunday, 3 February):
> >
> > https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/free_open_secure_communications/
> >
> > Look forward to meeting some of you at FOSDEM
> >
> >
> >
> > On 21/11/12 23:14, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 02/11/12 17:14, Sam Tuke wrote:
> >>>>> On 10/24/2012 06:08 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >>>>>> I've actually proposed a follow-up talk about the subject for
> >>>>>> the upcoming mini-DebConf, as a developer of VoIP apps I'm
> >>>>>> quite keen to (try to) answer questions that people have about
> >>>>>> why so many things didn't work during the tests on Software
> >>>>>> Freedom Day
> >>>>
> >>>>>> http://fr2012.mini.debconf.org/#schedule
> >>>>
> >>>>> Very good! Please let me know if there is a video made of this
> >>>>> talk, I can make a news item out of it on fsfe.org.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Just a reminder - the talk about Debian's role in replacing Skype
> >>>> is at 16:00 this Saturday.
> >>>>
> >>>>>> Yes, I'm happy to administer that, and mailman is fine.
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'll get that set up.
> >>>>
> >>>> Great, the list is now there for people who want to continue
> >>>> pursuing this initiative to the next stage:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
> >>>>
> >>>> There is already a push to repeat the VoIP client testing at FOSDEM
> >>>> in February, I'm currently discussing with the Jabber and
> >>>> telephony devroom co-ordinators.
> >>>>
> >>>> For those who missed it, Microsoft has announced they are killing
> >>>> off MSN within 6 months and migrating everybody into Skype... one
> >>>> step closer to world domination.  Scary stuff.  Expect them to take
> >>>> similar steps to make Skype more dominant in the corporate space.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/microsoft-killing-messenger-early-next-year-in-favour-of-skype-50009702/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >
> >
> >
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