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

[Daniel Pocock]

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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