Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 15:00 +1100, Rick Marshall a écrit : > hi damien, > > a few (hopefully helpful) comments after watching this for a day: > > 1. great product. well done. > 2. i get the same doubts about my database system when i look out at > mysql, oracle, etc. then i go back to my product and think - yep, that's > why i did it. i'm sure you'll think the same. > 3. current products - we use tandberg video conference and ericsson ip > phones as well. nothing wrong with gm. skype? as dodgy as anything else. > inside australia it all works well. to/from china - marginal for everything. > > future directions: > > option a: > > a server to reflect calls properly. that's part of the strength of > skype, netmeeting etc. can we do a reflected h323 service? would the
There will be one for the sip version : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is an echo test server, if that is what you mean. > bandwidth requirements kill it? (the other strength of skype is the > access to local calls world wide for a low rate...) > > option b: > > a 'packaged' voip and conferencing solution. ie a super project that > incorporates gm, asterix, etc so that we can create corporate phone and > conferencing facilities quickly and easily. and yes it could be a paid > service/product. > Many people have proposed that idea. Perhaps we could convince the people from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to include GnomeMeeting on the liveCD. > just my 5c worth. > > rick > > Damien Sandras wrote: > > >Hello to all, > > > > > >I have some doubts about the future of the project. I know that it is a > >recurrent subject with me since I started it back in 2000... > > > >GnomeMeeting was the first "easy-to-use" multi-platform softphone. I > >insist on the "multi-platform" aspect, as the code is portable. > >(However, nobody is maintaining the MacOSX port, nobody is maintaining > >the FreeBSD port, and we have to do the WIN32 port ourselves (thanks > >Julien)). > > > >Today, we see the emergence of VoIP with SIP support. We received many > >requests to add SIP, and last year, I started working on that. The > >project is nearly ready and 2.00 is not too far from a release. > > > >However, few people are using Asterisk, or a corporate IPBX supporting > >SIP AND a softphone running on GNU/Linux. So I think few people really > >need SIP. > > > >That means that GnomeMeeting has a small "market share" (the GNU/Linux > >Desktop users) and that "market share" is even smaller if we think to > >the market share represented by the fraction of those users who want a > >softphone. Things would be so different on WIN32... > > > >There are today 4 categories of users : > > > >1) A majority of users want simple audio/video chat. Kopete recently > >started allowing this with Yahoo and MSN, and GAIM is on the road to > >offer it too. Projects like Telepathy/Farsight will offer a > >GStreamer-based alternative to GAIM and Kopete. > > > >2) Another big part of the users want a Skype-like software supporting > >SIP. Some big companies, with loads of money, are developing full-time > >on such solutions, like Wengo, or Gizmo, or even others. > > > >3) Another part of users just want something that works and will use > >Skype despite the risks that are involved. > > > >4) Finally, on the corporate side, where there are less users at least > >on GNU/Linux, you have big companies offering solutions like XTEN, > >developed full-time by talented developers, even though being > >proprietary. But corportate users often do not care about the Open > >Source aspect of things, and big corporations are already offering their > >own softphone working with their IPBX. > > > >GnomeMeeting is playing in those 4 fields, but there are now so many > >alternatives, that I wonder if there is still an interest to develop > >GnomeMeeting after 2.00 will have been released. Two years ago, you had > >to use GnomeMeeting if you wanted to do 1), 2), or 4). Currently, there > >are so many alternatives that GnomeMeeting is perhaps unuseful. > > > >So you, GnomeMeeting users, what do you think of that? > > > >Should I start another project and develop slowly on GnomeMeeting, or > >should I continue full-speed? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM 2006 : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
