[Telepathy] Project revival?

[Niklas Andersson]

Hi George,

  We have a project going on that might be of interest. We have worked 
like crazy to basically bring feature-parity between MS Lync and Pidgin 
(using the SIPE-plugin)

  Think of it as the MS Lync client (or Skype for Business), but fully 
open source, directly available in your software repository.

We have touched pidgin, libpurple, libnice, freerdp, gstreamer, 
farstream to make this happen. And now we support (fully interoperable 
with MS Lync/SFB):

- File Transfer
- Desktop Screen Sharing
- Conferencing
- Video (one2one for now)
- SRTP encryption
- Lync Enterprise Voice (call-in and call-out via gateway).

This is a great start, but I would like to see the same features in 
other open libraries, and thus available for other clients. Right now it 
is Pidgin only, which is a pity.

Also, I have reached out to the XMPP-community (with not much of 
response actually..), telling them about this effort and that it would 
be great to take all these features to XMPP. Right now it is a MS Lync 
Server-only thing, which is not open source. I would like to see all of 
this handled by ejabberd for example.

  There have been efforts in Empathy to implement Desktop Screen 
Sharing, and I've reached out to the contributor (without getting a 
response). It would be nice if we could do a joint-effort and make sure 
there can be some common ground with respect to how the semantics should 
look like in the XMPP-messages in order to be interoperable.

All our code is available on Github [1]. SIPE [2] is where we have our 
wiki [3]

The goal is to have all features in the Lync/Skype For Business 
eco-system, but with protocols and code according to the F/OSS-philosopy.

[1] https://github.com/tieto
[2] https://github.com/tieto/sipe
[3] https://github.com/tieto/sipe/wiki

Best regards,
Niklas


On 09/06/16 17:02, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> For those of you that don't know me, I'm an old kde-telepathy &
> telepathy-qt developer who's been inactive in telepathy for a couple of
> years. Recently I've been looking again into what is going on in this
> project and it looks like it's dead, which is a pity. However, I can see
> there is some limited activity around telepathy-qt, with some people
> writing new Qt-based CMs (cool!). This little activity makes me hope
> that maybe it's possible to revive the rest of the project?
>
> I'm basically writing this email to declare my interest in attempting a
> revival. I think free communication is quite important and it's being
> neglected a lot recently in the FOSS world, which motivates me enough to
> spend some time again in this project.
>
> As a start, I would like to get in touch with all of you who are still
> working on something related to telepathy. It would be nice to start a
> conversation about project needs and future plans. So, if you are
> interested, please get in touch. I am 'gkiagia' on irc and various other
> places on the internet.
>
> Regards,
> George
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