Re: [Ekiga-list] About Ekiga.net

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2015-03-29 at 11:26 +0200, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> Am 2015-03-28 um 19:39 schrieb David Ford:
> > This is the problem of community software.
> >
> > So what are the other options?
> > What partnership? What platforms?
> > And, importantly, what would the Ekiga team actually LIKE to do - you
> > are the people who make Ekiga happen.
> > > Ekiga.net has been running since 2006 when there were no free SIP
> > > providers. Maintaining the platform is much work for our small team.
> > > Some features have been missing for years without anyone having the
> > > time to implement them.
> > > Should we keep the platform or try to find a partnership with
> > > someone to move it to another platform?
> > > Who is using Ekiga.net?
> I'm a longtime Ekiga.net user and I'm using it almost every day on my
> mobile phone or desktop machine since about two years (when my own
> Asterisk server machine broke down).

I have an active account, but admit I do not use it too much as I try to
minimize voice communication as much as possible [it is slow and very
error prone;  that is not a technology problem].

> > > Through the years there have been nearly 1 million subscribers. 
> > > Ah well, if each of them had donated 1 € ;)
> Donations would certainly be an option for me (as long as I don't have
> to be a Paypal customer for this ;) ).

I would kick in a little bit.

> But I'm also curious to know what the team likes to do, what the other
> options and especially the missing feature are. I have to admit that I
> didn't miss any feature up to now. :-)

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Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA