[okfn-help] How should the OKF talk?

Thu Jul 7 15:47:53 UTC 2011

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 <ww at styx.org> 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 <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] (Forking threads...)
> ]
> ] On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:00 PM, William Waites <ww at styx.org> 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.
> ]
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