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There's been some interest lately in setting up a good voice-chat system which could help in organization, preferably cross-platform and open source.
(Various people have used proprietary systems like Skype in the past, and one of our interns at the office has been experimenting on his own with Ventrilo, another proprietary system which doesn't have a Linux client available.)
Certainly I'd love for us to have a good, usable, and "ideologically pure" system available and would be happy to set up hosting for that.
Apparently Kelly Martin has recommended Asterisk in private discussions that never reached anyone with the ability to make it happen.
I'm told that Greg Maxwell has set up an experimental server of some kind, unspecified on the page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/voip
Greg or others, can you comment on server and client issues and make recommendations on what might be a good direction to move forward with this, as far as availability of clients, ease of use, quality etc?
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)