[Jingle] momentum

[Peter Saint-Andre]

How about interop events at both FOSDEM 2009 and OSCON 2009?

Justin Uberti wrote:
> I like this idea. Perhaps we should plan some sort of interop event
> later in the year as well.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Detlev Casanova
> <detlev.casanova at gmail.com <mailto:detlev.casanova at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Friday 14 November 2008 01:32:24 Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>     > I just submitted a proposal to give a talk at FOSDEM about Jingle. We
>     > have a lot of momentum right now with all the development efforts
>     going
>     > on (Pidgin, Kopete, Yate, Psi, Pandion, Gajim, SIP Communicator,
>     > Empath/Telepathy, etc.) and the FSF's mention of Jingle in its
>     call for
>     > a free and open alternative to Skype. [1] So I wonder if perhaps
>     we can
>     > make a big push for Jingle support in a bunch of clients by the
>     time of
>     > FOSDEM (early February). Not necessarily releases (I don't want to
>     tell
>     > you guys when to release new versions of your software!), but strong
>     > progress in these clients so that we can publish a list of
>     software that
>     > has working Jingle support or has pledged to have such support
>     (perhaps
>     > by end of 2009 or before FOSDEM 2010 or something like that). I think
>     > this could be a powerful thing to announce at FOSDEM. We could
>     even have
>     > one representative from each project up on stage to emphasize the
>     point
>     > that we have a whole bunch of people and projects on board to make
>     this
>     > happen!
>     >
>     > What do you think?
>     >
>     > Peter
>     >
>     > [1] http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#skypereplacement
> 
>     Great idea !, I'll be there :-)
> 
>