Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Google summer of code 2009 entry for Ekiga

[Simos <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Simos <simos lists googlemail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
>> Le jeudi 19 mars 2009 à 12:43 +0000, Peter Robinson a écrit :
>>> I would think depending on the GSOC project that ekiga could fall
>>> under an number of organisations. GNOME org would def be one. A couple
>>> of other ones that comes to mind would be XIPH if it was related to
>>> one of their codecs such as speex/celt/theora etc. The other would be
>>> gstreamer if someone wanted to move forward the gstreamer support in
>>> ekiga. You'd just need an appropriate mentor.
>>>
>>
>> What projects do we propose ?
>> Who is ready to mentor ?
>
> Regarding projects, I would like to propose the two at
> http://blogs.gnome.org/simos/2008/08/10/features-for-the-killer-voip-app/
>
> 1. Add a general wizard for users that want to configure their own SIP provider.
> 2. Add UPNP support.
>
> I think the main aim for additional project ideas would be to make
> Ekiga even more usable
> to Linux users (using Ubuntu, Fedora, etc).
>
> In addition, Linux netbooks tend to have Skype shipped as default. It
> would be beneficial to
> have the option to use Ekiga instead, and have users ask for Ekiga.
>
> I do not know of other UI and usability improvements that can be done.
> Are there any other suggestions?

Regarding mentors, they need to register at the relevant organisation
following the steps at
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/userguide#depth_mentapply

Simos