Nils just pointed out this: http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/789
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
