I was at the GSoC mentor summit on the weekend
I put together a session to discuss WebRTC as a collaboration
technology. In that session I ran through the following:
a) the repro SIP proxy as a SIP over WebSocket solution, we used the web
interface to set up a bunch of test accounts for people in the room
b) JsSIP as a solution for people to use on their web sites: the
volunteers used the test SIP accounts to log in with http://tryit.jssip.net
Everything just worked and several pairs of volunteers were able to make
calls between themselves. Thanks to Google for providing virtually
unlimited bandwidth on their campus.
Some other WebRTC solutions were discussed during the session (not all
involve SIP):
https://togetherjs.com/http://peerjs.com/
phono - a client hard-coded to use the Tropo service, appears to offer
SIP calling through Tropo
There was also a session about the general state of free social
networking (not specifically RTC). I emphasized the need for free
software developers to try and integrate RTC with other social
technologies (e.g. a single user ID) to maximise the convenience for
users and increase chances of success.
In both sessions I suggested the Free RTC mailing list as a good meeting
point for people to pursue further interoperability using free software
in these areas:
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
Debian is participating in another round of Outreach Program for Women (OPW)
This means there is the potential to fund a woman to spend 2-3 months
working on some RTC project that has a compelling benefit within the
greater context of the Debian project.
Three things are needed, even if you can't help as a co-mentor, maybe
you know a potential applicant:
a) potential project ideas (it doesn't just have to be my projects,
although it would be interesting to have some continuity from GSoC)
b) potential co-mentors
c) potential applicants (they must be female, but unlike GSoC, they
don't have to be students)
Debian OPW site:
https://wiki.debian.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
and I've put some RTC project ideas here:
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#Enabling_free_multimedia_…
Please feel free to add ideas on the wiki or discuss on this list
(Sorry for breaking the thread, I seem to have accidentilly deleted the
messages from my mailbox.)
On 29 Sep 2013 20:50, "Bas Wijnen" <wijnen at debian.org> wrote:
> > > You can also try using http://jit.si to get a feel for how all this
> > > works.
> >
> > Is that just a free XMPP server?
>
> Yes, with a Jingle Nodes relay.
That would be "No, it's more". ;-)
> > I don't need that, I have prosody running on my own host now,
>
> and according to your reports the setup dedn't seem to be working out that
> well.
Fair enough, although prosody seems to be doing fine.
> I suggested you try jit.si to see if that gets you what you need. If it
> does, it would provide a working setup that you can then use as a basis for
> your own deployment.
Yes, I just didn't see how it would make a difference. But now I do, and
anyway I tried it, but it doesn't work at all: I've created a user, and so has
my friend. When I try to send a message or add her to my roster, jitsi for
some reason seems to strip off the @jit.si suffix and then complains that the
host cannot be found. Predictably, no indication of any of this is visible on
the other side.
I've tried using gajim as well (which is the only client that at least works
between two machines on the same LAN), and I'm not sure what the result was,
but since on one side gajim doesn't recognize the camera and microphone I
didn't spend much time on it. Actually, jitsi has the same problem.
> Also, you might want to run with Jitsi's default config. As explained,
> disabling things because you believe them to be related to Google, could
> very well be breaking the whole thing for you.
Yes, I enabled everything after the explanation, but it didn't help.
Thanks,
Bas
Just yesterday I was blogging about what the gold standard in free
communications would look like...
Is it just co-incidence that today's news reveals the extent of
surveillance in the US?
http://www.guardian.co.uk
True to the principles of an open society, it was all done in secret.
Hi,
I just heard about he lack of any dedicated VoIP and XMPP devroom at
FOSDEM 2014
I don't want to criticize the FOSDEM organisers or their decision, it is
a huge task to manage such an event and all the projects that
participate are very commendable. I have enjoyed attending FOSDEM for
many years and I hope to do so again in 2014. However, for the wider
community of real-time communications developers, there are some
important points that I would like to raise:
- In 2013, like previous years, both the XMPP and Telephony devrooms
were a huge success, thanks to the efforts of all those who
participated, especially the speakers and devroom managers, of whom all
did substantially more than myself.
- Telephony and XMPP groups have traditionally had dinners and other
side events at FOSDEM every year, many people see it as an excellent
place to meet and engage with the wider community and each other.
- Interest in free and open real-time communications (RTC) technology is
at an all time high. The reason for this hardly needs to be mentioned.
I would like to think it was due to FOSDEM 2013 running a panel on the
topic in the main track. My own free communications software web sites
all saw a spike in activity after FOSDEM - but since the media took an
interest in this topic in June, many websites like Lumicall have been
constantly running hot. It is an area of demand that the free software
community would do well to tap into.
- The community of free and open communications software developers need
to be particularly pro-active to ensure interoperability between free
software solutions. Face-to-face (and beer-to-beer) communications is a
crucial part of this.
One thing that comes to mind is the possibility of organising a
follow-up to the 2013 panel in the main track. We posed the question
"can we replace Skype in 2013?" and I regularly receive emails asking me
whether it was a promise. There has been progress and there are several
great speakers who could potentially come and talk about that, it could
be any one of those individuals or another panel.
Another possibility is that we can look to expand off-site in 2014,
especially if free real-time communications developers can find a local
business or other venue that is willing to let us use some kind of
meeting room. There is nothing to prevent people doing that, but it
would be interesting to have some feedback from FOSDEM organisers as
well, for example, could the schedule include events organised in a
satellite venue? Given that FOSDEM rooms often have to turn people away
due to the event's immense popularity, a DIY expansion may be the ideal
solution, not just for this topic.
For those who are interested, the FSF Europe Free-RTC mailing list might
be a good place to discuss such possibilities:
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
and I would invite people to join us there.
Thanks again to the FOSDEM team for your efforts for 2014
Regards,
Daniel
Hi all!
For the past few years we've had a great time at the Open Source
Telephony and Jabber devrooms, but sadly there will be no RTC related
devroom this FOSDEM :-(
So, RTC enthusiasts out there, how about having some dinner on saturday
while discussing RTC stuff? If enough people want we can try to find a
nice place to eat + drink + talk + rant.
Cheers,
--
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
http://bettercallsaghul.com