[okfn-help] How should the OKF talk?

Thu Jul 7 15:49:50 UTC 2011

Nils just pointed out this: http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/789

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> 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 <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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