[Telepathy] Announce: Telepathy snom connection manager

[Tobias Hunger]

Hello telepathy list!

I am very pleased to announce version 0.3.0 of the Telepathy snom phone
connection manager.


Telepathy snom
==============

Telepathy snom is a Telepathy specification 
(http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html) compliant connection manager. It
enables remote controlling of VoIP phones as build by snom from Telepathy
compatible desktop applications.

Telepathy-snom enables computer telephone integration (CTI) in an opensource
environment. Using the Decibel realtime communication server this connection
manager can be used in applications to report on call state or to dial out
directly to users via a SIP network (eg. managed by an asterisk server).

Telepathy-snom is implemented using the Tapioca Qt language bindings
(http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/)


Acknowledgments
---------------

Development of this connection manager is sponsored by NLnet
(http://www.nlnet.com/) and basysKom GmbH (http://www.basyskom.de/) as part of
the Decibel project. It is used to test the applicability of the Telepathy
specification for computer telephone integration.

Thanks for the support you are giving to the project!

I further want to thank the Tapioca project
(http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/) for providing the Qt bindings to
Telepathy I am using in this connection manager.


License
-------

Telepathy-snom is released under the LGPL version 2.1.


Version 0.3.0
===============

Version 0.3.0 is the initial public release.

It enables:
 * Connecting to a snom phone using any of the identities defined in the 
phone.
 * Monitoring of incoming calls
 * Monitoring of outgoing calls
 * Dialing out
 * Accepting incomming calls
 * Reporting of call state


Sources:
==========

Get the sources at http://decibel.kde.org/index.php?id=90

Instructions on building the sources and dependencies can be found in the
INSTALL file in the source tarballs. Please also see the README file for
instructions on how to configure telepathy-snom and your snom phone for use
with each other.

If you have questions or comments, please send an email to
    tobias dot hunger at basyskom dot de

Thanks for using telepathy snom!


Known Problems
================

None.


To Do
======

 * Update to a the newest version of the telepathy specification.
   The specification on sending DTMF tones and muting the phone were only
   recently improved based on our feedback. These changes came to late to
   integrate in the current development cycle and will be included in later
   releases.
 * Work with the telepathy community to further improve the specification for
   usecases important to computer telephone integration.
   Features not yet covered fully are eg. conferencing and configuration of
   devices.


Contact
=========

Web:          http://decibel.kde.org/
mailing list: decibel at kde dot org
IRC:          #decibel on freenode.net
Author:       tobias dot hunger at basyskom dot de
Authors Blog: http://basysblog.org/

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions, feedback or want to help
with the snom Telepathy connection manager or the Decibel Realtime 
Communication Framework!

Thank you for your attention and best regards,

-- 

Tobias Hunger
Senior Software Engineer

basysKom GmbH
Robert-Bosch-Str. 7 | 64293 Darmstadt | Germany
Tel: +49 6151 3968769 | Fax: -9736 |
tobias.hunger at basyskom.de | www.basyskom.de

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