Hello Niklas,
On 09.06.2016 18:55, Niklas Andersson wrote:
Hi George,
We have a project going on that might be of interest. We have worked
like crazy to basically bring feature-parity between MS Lync and
Pidgin (using the SIPE-plugin)
Think of it as the MS Lync client (or Skype for Business), but fully
open source, directly available in your software repository.
We have touched pidgin, libpurple, libnice, freerdp, gstreamer,
farstream to make this happen. And now we support (fully interoperable
with MS Lync/SFB):
- File Transfer
- Desktop Screen Sharing
- Conferencing
- Video (one2one for now)
- SRTP encryption
- Lync Enterprise Voice (call-in and call-out via gateway).
This is a great start, but I would like to see the same features in
other open libraries, and thus available for other clients. Right now
it is Pidgin only, which is a pity.
Also, I have reached out to the XMPP-community (with not much of
response actually..), telling them about this effort and that it would
be great to take all these features to XMPP. Right now it is a MS Lync
Server-only thing, which is not open source. I would like to see all
of this handled by ejabberd for example.
That's all super cool. I am interested to hear about all the XMPP
additions as well as upstreaming all necessary changes to allow this to
work in telepathy as well.
There have been efforts in Empathy to implement Desktop Screen
Sharing, and I've reached out to the contributor (without getting a
response). It would be nice if we could do a joint-effort and make
sure there can be some common ground with respect to how the semantics
should look like in the XMPP-messages in order to be interoperable.
I'm sure interested to try and participate in talks about the XMPP
semantics. Regarding empathy, as far as I remember, desktop sharing was
working with vino & vinagre through telepathy stream tubes. I guess
though you are talking about some more standardized way?
All our code is available on Github [1]. SIPE [2] is where we have our
wiki [3]
The goal is to have all features in the Lync/Skype For Business
eco-system, but with protocols and code according to the
F/OSS-philosopy.
[1] https://github.com/tieto
[2] https://github.com/tieto/sipe
[3] https://github.com/tieto/sipe/wiki
Best regards,
Niklas
Thanks for letting me know.
Regards,
George
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