Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Interest for GM 2.00

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 15:00 +1100, Rick Marshall a écrit :
> hi damien,
> 
> a few (hopefully helpful) comments after watching this for a day:
> 
> 1. great product. well done.
> 2. i get the same doubts about my database system when i look out at 
> mysql, oracle, etc. then i go back to my product and think - yep, that's 
> why i did it. i'm sure you'll think the same.
> 3. current products - we use tandberg video conference and ericsson ip 
> phones as well. nothing wrong with gm. skype? as dodgy as anything else. 
> inside australia it all works well. to/from china - marginal for everything.
> 
> future directions:
> 
> option a:
> 
> a server to reflect calls properly. that's part of the strength of 
> skype, netmeeting etc. can we do a reflected h323 service? would the 

There will be one for the sip version :
sip:500 gnomemeeting net is an echo test server, if that is what you
mean.


> bandwidth requirements kill it? (the other strength of skype is the 
> access to local calls world wide for a low rate...)
> 
> option b:
> 
> a 'packaged' voip and conferencing solution. ie a super project that 
> incorporates gm, asterix, etc so that we can create corporate phone and 
> conferencing facilities quickly and easily. and yes it could be a paid 
> service/product.
> 

Many people have proposed that idea. Perhaps we could convince the
people from "Asterisk Home" to include GnomeMeeting on the liveCD.

> just my 5c worth.
> 
> rick
> 
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> 
> >Hello to all,
> >
> >
> >I have some doubts about the future of the project. I know that it is a
> >recurrent subject with me since I started it back in 2000...
> >
> >GnomeMeeting was the first "easy-to-use" multi-platform softphone. I
> >insist on the "multi-platform" aspect, as the code is portable.
> >(However, nobody is maintaining the MacOSX port, nobody is maintaining
> >the FreeBSD port, and we have to do the WIN32 port ourselves (thanks
> >Julien)).
> >
> >Today, we see the emergence of VoIP with SIP support. We received many
> >requests to add SIP, and last year, I started working on that. The
> >project is nearly ready and 2.00 is not too far from a release.
> >
> >However, few people are using Asterisk, or a corporate IPBX supporting
> >SIP AND a softphone running on GNU/Linux. So I think few people really
> >need SIP.
> >
> >That means that GnomeMeeting has a small "market share" (the GNU/Linux
> >Desktop users) and that "market share" is even smaller if we think to
> >the market share represented by the fraction of those users who want a
> >softphone. Things would be so different on WIN32...
> >
> >There are today 4 categories of users :
> >
> >1) A majority of users want simple audio/video chat. Kopete recently
> >started allowing this with Yahoo and MSN, and GAIM is on the road to
> >offer it too. Projects like Telepathy/Farsight will offer a
> >GStreamer-based alternative to GAIM and Kopete.
> >
> >2) Another big part of the users want a Skype-like software supporting
> >SIP. Some big companies, with loads of money, are developing full-time
> >on such solutions, like Wengo, or Gizmo, or even others.
> >
> >3) Another part of users just want something that works and will use
> >Skype despite the risks that are involved.
> >
> >4) Finally, on the corporate side, where there are less users at least
> >on GNU/Linux, you have big companies offering solutions like XTEN,
> >developed full-time by talented developers, even though being
> >proprietary. But corportate users often do not care about the Open
> >Source aspect of things, and big corporations are already offering their
> >own softphone working with their IPBX.
> >
> >GnomeMeeting is playing in those 4 fields, but there are now so many
> >alternatives, that I wonder if there is still an interest to develop
> >GnomeMeeting after 2.00 will have been released. Two years ago, you had
> >to use GnomeMeeting if you wanted to do 1), 2), or 4). Currently, there
> >are so many alternatives that GnomeMeeting is perhaps unuseful.
> >
> >So you, GnomeMeeting users, what do you think of that?
> >
> >Should I start another project and develop slowly on GnomeMeeting, or
> >should I continue full-speed?
> >  
> >
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