On Saturday, 9 July 2011, Gordon Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Steve Davies wrote: > > > On 9 July 2011 12:34, randulo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Go ahead and lambast me for this post, it isn't specific to Asterisk, but: > > G+ has only been open at all for a week and I already am chatting with > over 200 people who are into VoIP, Asterisk and all the rest of the > stuff we here care about. If you don't care or are anti-social, fine. > But you owe it to yourself to check it, because a lot of cool VoIP > people are there and after all, Google themselves are doing some > great stuff with VoIP, XMPP and video, and steadily moving towards > open source. Come drink the Kool-Aid! > > > > Can you suggest a good way of finding/following appropriate > VoIP/Asterisk people once on Google+? How do you then group them? Just > in a Circle, or some other mechanism? > > > I've just created a "VoIPy" circle - So I can then invite people I know into > the circle by email address, and/or looking at someone else's circles and > seing if they have something relevant in their summary tag and adding them > into your own circle... (Or using their people search - e.g. for 'randulo' :) > > You can have people in more than one circle. Right now, it's a bit like a > media-rich version of twitter with excellent filtering (the circles). I don't > have camera/microphone/speakers on my PC, (got real desk SIP phones!) so > haven't tried the audio/video chat yet, but the typing "instant messaging" > type chat works just fine. > > I think Google are still slowly gating people into + though. I did have some > invites, but seem to have used them all up now (google didn't tell me how > many, the "invite" button just went away after a while!) > > I'd love to see SIP integration into it, so I can use my existing SIP toys > with it. > > Gordon
Thanks for that Gordon. What appears to be missing at the moment is the ability to interface or collaborate with a group of 'strangers'. It would be good if there were a way to broadcast a 'we're here, come join us' to bring a group of VoIP people together, a bit like an IRC channel name can do, or a Facebook fan page. I thought that sparks might cover that, but I'm not entirely sure how sparks work yet. I agree that SIP integration would be great. I think it'll be a while yet but if anyone will allow it, it'll be Google. Cheers, Steve -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
