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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)
On 3/13/07, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
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?
Greg's server is Asterisk. From what Greg told me last night (he's in California on business and I don't know when he'll see this), it is about as hard to set up as Apache. I strongly suspect you'd have little trouble finding someone to help with it if nobody in the current tech team has the time to learn the system. I can't spare the time right now (I'm already backlogged at work, and we're moving house just now), but I can probably give it more focus in a week or so when things are bit less insane around here.
I reviewed Asterisk back in late 2005 when evaluating VoIP systems for my employer. We ended up selecting a different system, but it looked to me like a decently good product.
Kelly
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Kelly Martin wrote:
On 3/13/07, Brion Vibber wrote:
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?
Greg's server is Asterisk. From what Greg told me last night (he's in California on business and I don't know when he'll see this), it is about as hard to set up as Apache. I strongly suspect you'd have little trouble finding someone to help with it if nobody in the current tech team has the time to learn the system.
Good news; that should make it easy to start evaluating!
I can't spare the time right now (I'm already backlogged at work, and we're moving house just now), but I can probably give it more focus in a week or so when things are bit less insane around here.
I know how that is; I'm still getting furniture set up here. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Kelly Martin wrote:
I can't spare the time right now (I'm already backlogged at work, and we're moving house just now), but I can probably give it more focus in a week or so when things are bit less insane around here.
Like I said on IRC, I've been working with Asterisk and SER for a few years now and would be happy to help if this is the route things are going.
bw.
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