On 10/5/07, The Fearow <fearow00(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
I'd like to get an exemption to run a copy of Ventrilo
(
http://www.ventrilo.com/index.php) for use as an
alternative to IRC. For a start it will be for Wikinews, although I intend
to make it into a general Wikimedia server. I'll make channels available
that pretty much align with the IRC ones.
I can answer any questions if necessary.
Ignoring for a moment whatever issue Wikimedia Deutschland may have
with someone running a VoIP server on equipment they own:
I think it's a bad idea to run a closed/proprietary VoIP service with
limited cross platform support.
If we want to do VoIP stuff we should use Asterisk, which I've
maintained before and wouldn't mind helping with. The challenge then
becomes making good client software recommendations, which is
something that I can't help with for windows/mac users. :) There are,
however, a lot of options.
Beyond the advantages of staying in the realm of free/open protocols
and software using asterisk has other advantages: It's very easy to
tie applications/tools into asterisk. For example, when I ran a demo
asterisk server for some Wikimedia stuff I setup an interface that
allowed you to listen call a 1800 number and listen to spoken
Wikipedia articles, and the interface only took a few minutes to
setup.