Re: [Bayonne-desktop] Re: GNOME "Telephony Application Programming Services" Proposed

[David Sugar <dyfet ostel com>]

This is very different from that.  GnomeMeeting is a "softphone client", if 
you will, where you use a desktop pc as a ip telephone.  TAPS is interested 
in supporting the 99% existing office environments where a telephone is still 
a seperate physical intrument on a typical office workers desk and phone 
service is typically conducted through a (formerly propertary) office pbx 
which can now be displaced by free phone systems such as GNU Bayonne.  This 
is not to say that TAPS has no role in IP telephony, for many of the same 
integration issues also can exist with stand-alone IP phones and softswitches 
that are kept in isolation from other system services and where the same need 
to see and control incoming calls or dial contact phone numbers automatically 
still exist.

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 15:25, Damien Sandras wrote:
> What would be the main difference between that system, and a system
> using the existing GnomeMeeting and phones managed by GnomeMeeting
> itself thanks to additional hardware? GnomeMeeting is already able to
> interact with PC-To-Phone gateways and to interact with normal phone
> devices.
>
> Is your goal very different?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Le mar 04/02/2003 à 21:08, David Sugar a écrit :
> > Have you ever wondered why you have phone numbers collected in your
> > Evolution address book, and yet must manually re-enter numbers on your
> > office telephone when you wish to dial someone?  Would you like to be
> > able to receive pop-up notification on who's calling you with the ability
> > to route incoming calls you do not wish to answer under mouse control? 
> > To mark specific calls as billable clients as they occur to track their
> > time for automated invoicing?
> >
> > We hope to be able to finally address these and other issues for both
> > GHOME desktop users and business application developers in a new free
> > software package being proposed to be known as GNOME TAPS.  This being a
> > project proposal, I am establishing a project outline and a set of goals.
> >  With that, this announcement constitutes a call for help and request for
> > input from other GNOME developers in establishing a functional
> > implementation.
> >
> > GNOME TAPS will offer a C callable library to easily integrate telephony
> > functions into existing GNOME applications.  It will use a common TCP
> > based backend protocol to communicate directly with office telephone
> > equipment and services, and ideally for use with free software based
> > telephone systems such as GNU Bayonne.  It will include an applet to
> > pop-up and support handling of incoming calls.  It will include a gnome
> > control-center plugin for setting of telephony options.
> >
> > The first goal will be to support and demonstrate a C callable library
> > and implement a backend service on GNU Bayonne to support the
> > functionality of dialing numbers that may be clicked on or otherwise
> > delivered under application control.  This would be followed by
> > development of a GNOME desktop applet to respond to incoming calls, and
> > finally work on a complete control center plugin to configure and manage
> > GNOME TAPS.
> >
> > Initial discussion and design planning for GNOME TAPS will be carried out
> > on a new mailing list, bayonne-desktop gnu org   This list is open to the
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> > bayonne-desktop-request gnu org   Comments may also be sent to me
> > directly, to sugar gnu org 
> >
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