Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] GnomeMeeting 2.0 Promotion/Marketing (was: Interest for GM 2.00)

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 01 décembre 2005 à 21:43 +0000, Conrad Beckert a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 13:11 schrieb CJ van den Berg:
> > 3. Simple (really, simple) end user configuration help
> >
> > Most users don't care about GM or VoIP or SIP or anything really - they
> > just want to make calls. A prominently placed webpage that shows in
> > simple steps how to configure GM for various popular VoIP providers
> > would be very encouraging to new end users. It also serves as a sort of
> > documentation of which VoIP providers GM is known to work with, which
> > is also positive no-bull marketing.
> Well, yesterday I've set up my Palm to work with my new cell phone: the Palm 
> asked me what country I'm, I said Germany and in the next box I could select 
> my cell provider out of the four available ... done. Works.
> 
> I envision something like that in Gnomemeeting for setting up with the most 
> popular SIP providers: Select country and provider e.g. sipgate or nicotel, 
> enter account and password -> done.
> 
> Gnomemeeting should draw the provider list from a website e.g. 
> gnomemeeting.net. As we don't know all the config's in all countries (which 
> is subject to constant change as well) there should me a colaborative way to 
> update the list from Gnomemeeting (such as Free CDDB)
> 

I'm fine with this. However, we should contact those providers to see if
they are ready to sponsor the project by giving back a percentage of the
calls done thanks to GM advertising them.

MicroTelco had promised to do it, but I got nothing.
DiamondCard.us has promised to do it too, 100 dollars are waiting to buy
a camera.

> I also look for a way to send over someone (e.g. a client or a project member) 
> the application and give him/her a file with my configuration 
> (Asterisk/Gnugk)
> 
> Conrad
> 
> PS: Would it be possible / a good idea to include a port scanner (nmap) to 
> check if the firewall blocks necessary TCP/UDP ports?

The STUN test should detect it.
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