Re: Debian real-time communication (RTC) project - SIP
On 20/01/14 23:00, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Hello Debian Project News people,
>
> This e-mail is to get more attention
> on the debian-devel-announce@l.d.o. posting
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg00004.html
>
> Daniel Pocock extended the siprepo code to do federation secured by TLS
> And the DSA team ingeterate the TURN with the Debian identification system.
> So now it is possible to recieve calls and make calls to other domains
> with a @debian.org address. This makes it possible to make voice calls
> to and from the Debian community.
>
>
> In https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/01/msg00067.html
> says Zack about the announce:
>
> Project-wide SIP is good for development reasons (voice talking could be
> way more efficient than emails at times), that it is good for social
> reasons (it could help in smoothing conflicts), and that it is good for
> political reasons (it promotes federated ways of communicating).
>
>
>
> It would be nice if this milestone gets coverage in Debian Weekly News.
>
Here are some extra points that may be useful, feel free to add any of
them in the final text that you create
Some keywords: SIP, VoIP, RTC, WebRTC, federation, JSCommunicator, Jitsi
- very important: we want other projects (including derivatives) to
emulate what we are doing so we can all call each other, they can call
us, etc
- it is a service for Debian Developers (not the general public, end
users, etc)
- it is built using packages in Debian itself
- launched at mini-DebConf Paris, January 2014
- it works with a diverse range of traditional softphones, including
Empathy, Jitsi, Lumicall, Linphone, CSIPSimple
- it works with soft PBXes (Asterisk and FreeSWITCH) run by developers
(DSA will not run that centrally)
- it works with WebRTC clients (such as JSCommunicator)
- the actual interoperability between any two clients is not guaranteed,
that is a matter for the upstream developers of client software/softphones
- it will hopefully encourage developers to try more of the RTC clients
in Debian before the release of jessie, improving the quality of Debian
as a platform for real-time communications
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