Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Promotion

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

Peter Robinson a écrit :
> > GnomeMeeting badly needs promotion, especially the SIP version.
>
> I agree. The problem with promoting it is the fact it's still
> pre-release. Once we get it to stable I think it'll be much easier.

Well, even releasing an alpha version would be nice ; yes alpha means 
not all features are there yet, yes there are still bugs. But at least 
that gives an idea what to expect, and shows the project is still alive!

Someone outside of those lists and the irc channel, looking for a 
softphone now will have long forgotten about the 1.2.2 version of that 
software mentioned so long ago. But (s)he will still have in mind that 
he read that such and such projects where going on well, are so 
wonderful, blah, blah, blah.

Other projects make a lot of noise when they think that perhaps some day 
they will do something perhaps not that bad.

Gnomemeeting has features added quite frequently, and has serious 
advantages over its competitors ; but this is only known to a restricted 
circle of people.

Everytime I see VoIP mentioned on a news site, supposedly 
opensource-minded, I search 'nomemee' in the article text and the 
comments. And I generally don't find anything.

Outrageous !

> I think the sooner we can get 2.0 out with SIP support the better. I'm
> not sure how hard it would be to add IAX2 support now that OPAL
> supports it but that would help as well too.

Saying that OPAL supports IAX2 is precisely as honest as the other 
projects boasting about their features ;-)

AFAIK, this IAX2 is very preliminary, and not ready for prime time. But 
if it gets ready, adding it into gnomemeeting shouldn't take more than 
one day for Damien -- although he'll probably ask a full week because 
he's so perfectionist ;-)

Let's get a few alphas out, until all features are in, then some betas 
while bug hunting the features, and finally release 2.0 !

Snark