[Freedombox-discuss] report on activities in Banja Luka

[fiftyfour@waldevin.com (John Walsh)]

Hi Bdale,
Thank you and the rest of the team for all your hard work both in developing
and promoting the FBX in Banja Luka.

<quote>
I've started studying yate as a possible call manager and VoIP server choice
with XMPP/jingle support, and we await with great interest a release from
the Buddycloud developers to evaluate as a possible basis for deploying
social network services.
</quote> 

I use the Yate windows client for SIP calls because it was the only free
software client that could automatically punch through my firewall/NAT. I am
pretty sure the YATE server also supports the SIP protocol.

I looked at Buddycloud's website and was surprised to learn that they hope
to release "next February". That's 7 months away. Why is the project
evaluating software that's still in development when there are more *mature*
social networking applications such as Friendika, Elgg, Jappix etc around?

-- fiftyfour