Thanks - useful to know Will! Hmm.. so do you think the costs of setting up / running such a thing are likely to be reasonable? E.g. is it likely to fail from time to time and to require that someone spends an hour or two debugging or fiddling with a box? However we do this I'd like to minimise hassle.
It would be *amazing* if we could have something like calls.okfn.org and do this via browser. ;-) E.g. via Empathy? (Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about...) J. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:39 PM, William Waites <[email protected]> wrote: > So maybe just rent one of these (or easy enough to build ourselves) > http://www.hostedasterisk.eu/ or similar. Use a regular telephone, a > sip client or an iax client of your choice to talk to it (iax will > have better NAT traversal properties and will likely work better in > many cases). An added bonus is that we could give people OKF phone > numbers/extensions... > > So it's been about five years since I've worked in the VoIP industry > but I could spend a week or two in August doing a survey of the > current state of the industry and pricing and make a short list of > candidates to evaluate. Or I could spend the same time building > something for you but that's probably less desirable because of > something Adam Smith talked about... > > But it will take a little bit more effort to get started than just > tinkering with something for an afternoon and then deciding it doesn't > work or whatever and then just deciding that it's easier to use > proprietary software instead... > > So if OKF is happy to support me to do it, I'll sort you out. If > someone else wants to do it, great and I'll be happy to give feedback > and be glad that it has been done. If its easier to keep using > proprietary software, I'll keep making fun of OKF in a good natured > way from time to time :) > > -w > > * [2011-07-07 17:17:25 +0200] Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> écrit: > > ] (Forking threads...) > ] > ] On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:00 PM, William Waites <[email protected]> wrote: > ] > the > evil-proprietary-voip-software-that-okfn-should-be-embarrassed-to-use-and-endorse > ] > ] Okay - this is a thread to see if we can *finally* figure out what OKF > ] people and others should use to talk to each other. > ] > ] Daniel: I think you were looking into this right? > ] > ] From my point of view whatever we use should be: > ] > ] * easy for anyone to use without too much trouble (e.g. having to > ] install lots of stuff) > ] * reliable, stable, etc > ] * scalable - we really need something which can let us have lots of > ] people on a call simultaneously > ] * preferably the 'o' or the 'f' word (i.e. non-proprietary) > ] > ] Any ideas? > ] > ] J. > ] > ] -- > ] Jonathan Gray > ] > ] Community Coordinator > ] The Open Knowledge Foundation > ] http://blog.okfn.org > ] > ] http://twitter.com/jwyg > ] http://identi.ca/jwyg > > -- > William Waites <mailto:[email protected]> > http://river.styx.org/ww/ <sip:[email protected]> > F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45 > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg _______________________________________________ okfn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-help
