[Jingle] momentum

[Justin Uberti]

Will enough people be ready by FOSDEM?

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>wrote:

> 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 :-)
> >
> >
>
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