Re: [Fwd: [Announce] Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono)]

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Interesting development - Intel and Nokia have announced that they're
> releasing a telephony stack together, and are actively looking for third
> parties to help develop it. People from both companies will co-maintain
> the package.
>
> We mentioned telephony stack as a missing piece of the GNOME Mobile
> stack some time ago - what are opinions of this one?

Can someone take a guess at how they think it would fit in with other
open source mobile technologies?

The architectural diagram (http://ofono.org/documentation) doesn't
show how it would plug into other pieces of open source.

The media implies that it's a whole new stack, not something you'd use
with GNOME Mobile or Moblin:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2177
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4205

Thanks,

Stormy

Stormy

>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> --
> Dave Neary
> GNOME Foundation member
> dneary gnome org
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Aki Niemi <aki niemi nokia com>
> To: dev moblin org, maemo-developers maemo org
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:31:33 +0300
> Subject: [Announce] Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono)
> Intel and Nokia are pleased to jointly announce the oFono project
> (http://ofono.org), an open source project for developing an open source
> telephony solution.
>
> oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an
> infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.
> oFono.org is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus
> API for use by telephony applications of any license.  oFono.org also
> includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with Open Source as
> well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage
> back-ends.  The plug-in API functionality is modeled on public
> standards, in particular 3GPP TS 27.007 "AT command set for User
> Equipment (UE)."
>
> Source code is available on http://ofono.org/downloads and a high-level
> architecture diagram is available on http://ofono.org/documentation.  To
> join the mailing list, go to http://lists.ofono.org/listinfo/ofono.
>
> Nokia and Intel will jointly maintain the oFono project.  We'd like to
> invite all developers to join the oFono.org effort and community.
>
> Marcel Holtmann <holtmann linux intel com>, Intel Open Source Technology
> Center
> Aki Niemi <aki niemi nokia com>, Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software
>
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