Topic 05

Libre Software for Communication

Keywords

• Telephony
• Communications
• VoIP
• CallXML
• Drivers
• Protocols
• Projects hosting

Motivations

While libre software can liberate over 200 million users of proprietary solutions today, it is thru libre telephony that an additional 1.8 billion people may be liberated world-wide.

Project developpement has recently commited to a developpement model that uses a set of tools designed for communication and cooperative work. These tools allow communities creations and animations, project management. Hosting plateforms on the Internet of these tools, have became the place where every Libre development and Libre developer must be.

There are many different people and groups working independently on telephony or communications related libre software projects world-wide, and our goal is to gather as many as possible in one place, both to educate the rest of the community on the latest developments in this area, as well as to provide a forum where various project leaders can co-ordinate their efforts efforts more effectively.

Subtopics

We will be introducing speakers to cover a broad range of issues related to the development of Libre Communication Software as well as speakers from several prominent projects. This list is subject to change, and if one wishes to speak about a topic not specifically stated here, please feel free to contact the maintainer with your suggestion.

• low-level interfaces

  these topics will cover low level interfaces, libraries, and devices drivers used to build communication software.

  1. A Devil in the Driver Fabrice Merillon

     The devil framework allows one to specify the behavior of and then easily generate code for device drivers.

  2. Libre Protocol Stacks

     A discussion of various freely licensed protocol stacks and libraries for building free communication software. This will be broken into additional topics as we have speakers.

  3. oSIP Aymeric Moizard

     Aymeric will provide an overview of the SIP protocol and the oSIP stack.

• Application services

  Presentations on existing free telephony server projects. This topic will be expanded upon and may become workshops.

  1. Telephony overview panel

     An overview of libre telephony software, the kinds of applications that may be developed, and where telephony fits into overall development.

  2. Bayonne David Sugar

     David is the maintainer and main developer of Bayonne, the telephony server of the GNU project.

  3. PreViking Zaheer Merali

     Zaheer is the lead developer of PreViking, another freely licensed telephony server.

• Project Hosting

  This presentation focuses on hosting for Libre developments and general hosting services. It will present hosting platforms, techniques and usages as well as projects in the field.

  Most of the speakers have recently met due to an effort in creating an exchange format for hosting projects, see : CoopX.

  1. Concept and Technique in Source-Forge-like Technologies Roland Mas

     Roland is involved in building a Source Forge package for DEBIAN. Source Forge for Debian

  2. Savannah what and why ? Loic Dachary

     Loic is involved in Savannah's development since he also is vice-president of FSF Europe. Savannah

  3. TuxFamily and Virtual Hosting For Free Software Igor Genibel

     Igor is part of the TuxFamily hosting project and is developper of a new hosting engine called VHFFS. VHFFS

  4. Libre Server and PecoVall: hosting projects within engineer education Gerald Ouvradou or Eric Cousin

     Gerald and Eric are associate professors at ENST Bretagne and have launched a project to promote students use of hosting platforms. Libre Server

  5. Pure Source Jean Pierre Laisne

     Jean Pierre is leader in the Pure Source project founded by a french research agency called RNTL. Pure Source

Links

• GNU Telephony
• Devil Framework
• Home of oSIP
• Bayonne
• PreViking
• CoopX
• Source Forge for Debian
• Savannah
• VHFFS
• Libre Server
• Pure Source

Program