Re: [Ekiga-list] Sunday 20th Global Ekiga Mtg via VOIP - BerkeleyTIP - for forwarding

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, john_re wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:42:08 -0700
> From: john_re <john_re fastmail us>
> Reply-To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> To: ekiga-list gnome org
> Subject: [Ekiga-list] Sunday 20th Global Ekiga Mtg via VOIP - BerkeleyTIP -
>     for forwarding
>
> Get a VOIP headset, Install VOIP client SW, & join the global Ekiga
> meeting this
> Sunday Sept 20, 12N-3P Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC-8),
> 3P-6P Eastern, (7P-10P UTC?)
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/remote-attendance
>
> Lots of great, exciting new things for Ekiga users,
> as we start Year 2 of the Global FSW GNU(Linux)/BSD,
> Free HW, Free Culture, TIP meetings:
> TIP = Talks, Installfest, Project/Programing Party.
> Educational, Productive, Social.
>
> Join with the meeting from your home via VOIP,
> or create a local meeting at your local college wifi cafe.
>
>
> =====
> Quick announcement.  We're starting up BTIP year 2, for the 2009-10
> school year.
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/home
>
> September Videos: Puppet language, Python mystery talks, CampKDE
> http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/talk-videos
>
> This year 2 we'll be focusing on
> 1) Inviting UC Berkeley students via poster/flyers
> 2) Getting local meetings going at California colleges
> 3) Getting invitations out to more American countries
> 4) Getting topic groups (OLPC, Python, KDE & GNOME, BSD, Ubuntu, etc)
> having simultaneous meetings.
> 5) Improving our VOIP server, perhaps upgrading to FreeSwitch.
>
> ==
> Come join the Sept 20 Sunday meeting, get on voip, chat, discuss the
> videos, work on your own projects & share them with others, help educate
> students, & help work on the group projects.
>
> Join #berkeleytip on irc.freenode.net, & we'll help you get your VOIP HW
> & SW working. :)
>
> Join the mailing lists & say hi, tell us what you are interested in.
> http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
>
> You are invited to forward this message anywhere it would be welcomed.
> :)

Ah, if only a version of Ekiga is available, that works with Ubuntu 
8.04, that can be installed using the Ubuntu package management 
system, ...

I can successfully make test calls, to sip:500 ekiga net, using Ekiga 
v2.0.12, and I can look at my ugly face, using the Ekiga software in 
video mode, but that is about all I can do with it. Ekiga v2.0.12 is the 
latest version available via the Ubuntu 8.04 packages repository. I 
understand that a later version, something like v3.0, allows the making 
and answering, of realtime calls, but that version is not yet available 
from the Ubuntu 8.04 packages repository.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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