[Evolution-hackers] Re: GNOME "Telephony Application Programming Services" Proposed

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> > GNOME TAPS will offer a C callable library to easily integrate telephony
> > functions into existing GNOME applications.  It will use a common TCP
> > based backend protocol to communicate directly with office telephone
> > equipment and services, and ideally for use with free software based 
> > telephone systems such as GNU Bayonne.  It will include an applet to
> > pop-up and support handling of incoming calls.  It will include a gnome
> > control-center plugin for setting of telephony options.

Make sure you talk to the Asteriskpbx folks before you go and duplicate
a ton of stuff, Asterisk already does PBX, voicemail, IP and non IP phone
switching, codec conversions and a few other neat tricks, and its GPL