Dear Ekiga team,
I am working at Poznan
Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC, www.psnc.pl ), which is a research
institute and
a centre which operates the Metropolitan Area Network and a national
network.
In the
national project PLATON (http://www.platon.pionier.net.pl/online/?lang=en
) we are working on building an ICT infrastructure for science in
Poland.
Among different services in this platform, video-conference services
play an
important role. The infrastructure includes two control centres and 22
videoconferencing rooms with HD conferencing equipment. Additionally,
to give
more options and flexibility for using the infrastructure, it should
allow its
usage with other applications as well. As I am personally involved in
Open
Source QualiPSo Competence Centre (qualipso.psnc.pl), we want to
suggest one
option based on open source software.
For this purpose, we consider
using and
promoting the Ekiga software, as one of the alternatives. I think you
are doing great job on the software!
We have already performed some interoperability tests, and the Linux
version
works well with the infrastructure (90% of our test cases have passed).
However, we had some issues with hardware compatibility and stability
on
Windows (we faced issues with video output - bug: 626515,
un-registering – bug:
622001, or unexpected crashing). Assuming many of the PLATON users may
use
Windows, this is an important point for us.
Thus, to
get more understanding on Ekiga
development status we have some questions:
1) What are your plans
regarding support for Windows? Is there any
person working on this?
2) Do
you plan to go in the direction of High
Definition video? What should be done to enable this?
3) Who is
currently working on the Ekiga development? Do you collaborate with
some university or
company that uses and supports your software?
I will be really thankful for your answer and support.
Best regards,
Alicja Ciemniewska
Open Source QualiPSo Competence Centre
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