[GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Bayonne-devel]Re: GNOME "Telephony Application Programming Services" Proposed

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Why are these messages stamped as year 2003?

> GNU Bayonne already does some of these same things as well and has done so for 
> a number of years now in varied commercial, carrier class, and governmental 
> settings.  It is also an integral part of the GNU system, and does some 
> things that are distinctly different from Asterisk.  However, TAPS has 
> nothing to do directly with being such a system.  TAPS is also not a 
> softphone client.   Rather, TAPS is intended purely to standardize how we 
> integrate such things like GNU Bayonne, Astreisk, or other common office 
> telephony servers and systems, with common desktop applications (such as 
> address books, contact management  systems, etc).  In that sense it services 
> some of the same role as JTAPI, although in a manner far more directly usable 
> in GNOME (through a C callable library), and both far simpler and more 
> consistent with free software  development than JTAPI (or fully proprietary 
> systems such as Microsoft TAPI) currently do this.
> > > > 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.

This would be fabulous.  Is there any chance this will support
commerical PBX's (for CTIish applications) anytime in the forseeable
future.  I have 13 Nortel BCM VOIP phonesystems and have been looking
for a way to integrate these with OpenGroupware in a
click-contact-to-call fashion - as can be done from a Win32 system.