On Monday 04 October 2010 06:26 PM, Sugandha Naolekar wrote:

Can I get a strong purpose of using and working on FreeSwitch Box?? -Regards Sugandha

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So is there some FOSS way of supporting Skype, or do you have to use proprietary apps and/or libraries for integrating?

As you know Skype is a proprietary product. freeSWITCH has a module called mod_skypeopen which uses API provided by Skype and provides integration with freeSWITCH . http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax_Skype_Endpoint_and_Trunk . There is no reverse engineering etc.

You could use the API as long as you agree with Skype's terms and conditions. Furthermore, Users must agree with Skype EULA before they install skype client application. As per skype distribution policy at https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA200/Can-I-redistribute-Skype-for-Linux , you could either point to the skype page for download or provide a automated download option. We are doing the later.

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On Tuesday 05 October 2010 06:29:11 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 19:17 +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:

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On Monday 04 Oct 2010, Gourav Shah wrote:

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I have recently started a project called freeSWITCHBOX appliance. Its a tailor made distro which comes bundled with FreeSWITCH Open Telephony software and blue.box GUI from 2600Hz project. Supports Skype, gtalk integration. Get your telephony system up and running within minutes.

So is there some FOSS way of supporting Skype, or do you have to use proprietary apps and/or libraries for integrating?

or a foss alternative to skype?

There are several. slfphone Ekiga gstreamer

I use Ekiga a lot. We had written some for customising lots of things in Ekiga. Rather than skype, Imo Ekiga would be a better bet.

On Wednesday 06 October 2010 09:28:17 Gourav Shah wrote:

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There are several. slfphone Ekiga gstreamer

I use Ekiga a lot. We had written some for customising lots of things in Ekiga. Rather than skype, Imo Ekiga would be a better bet.

Ekiga is great. I may also suggest Qutecom, formerly known as wengophone ( http://www.qutecom.org/), a easy to use and great looking softphone.

However, the objective of our appliance project is not to provide a SIP softphone for a desktop. Objective is to have a appliance to which, one could connect their regular phone instrument using a voip adapter such as Linksys PAP2T (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10029/), make and receive calls from anywhere in the world. Think of it as a affordable alternative to Vonage like VoIP solutions which are very expensive and have vendor lock ins.

Connecting a voip network to a phone network is prohibited by law. L&T paid a whooping Rs.350 Cr. as fines. So be careful with whatever it is you are planning.

Typical use case would be: Folks who have their son/daughter's/relatives abroad, need high volume calling, and do not want to start their desktop and use some app to make and receive calls.

They could just pick up their landline like instrument, dial a number which lands either on one's skype application on computer/cellphone/landline. Skype provides skypein number and skype out credits which makes it capable of receiving and making calls to landlines/cell phones, and provides very affordable calling plans than subscribing to a SIP provider's plans. Similarly, google has made calling US numbers very affordable with their google voice/gtalk integration after acquiring grand central project. Thats the reason for choosing skype. If there is a alternate libre solution aailable, I would be more than glad to use it as it would save lot of complexities integrating skype.

All of the voip providers pay fat licencing fees to the DOT.

Are there some stipendary cool projects available to be worked on, which has some kind of mentorship and I will get a liberty of working on it on only weekends? It will provide me following:

- Learning with all the possible trial and error and experiments by playing around with it. - A platform to go into the technological world one-level up. - A leverage added into the profile. - Justified credibility for the work that would be delivered in the form of stipend.

Looking forward to Anticipatory options !! -Regards Sugandha

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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Sugandha Naolekar sugandha.n87@gmail.com wrote:

Are there some stipendary cool projects available to be worked on, which has some kind of mentorship and I will get a liberty of working on it on only weekends? It will provide me following:

Cool definitely, Stipendary, is that a word? I assume you mean you want a stipend for your work. Not possible in most FOSS projects since most people work on it for free during their spare time, much like you're volunteering to do.

- Learning with all the possible trial and error and experiments by   playing around with it.

That is called 'hacking'. it's what all of us 'hackers' do, so you'll definitely get this. Not to be confused with 'crackers' of course.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subculture%29

for context on this.

- A platform to go into the technological world one-level up.

This totally depends on what level you are on right now.

- A leverage added into the profile.

This is very subjective too, since it depends how you want to 'leverage' the advantage you get out of FOSS contribution. A lot of us use it as a platform to learn stuff and implement cool things. These implementations give us visibility, which in turn gets us jobs/paid projects to work on.

if you're looking to add it into your resume so that the bigwigs in Indian IT (TCS, Infy, etc.) notice then it won't help. Many companies do not really understand FOSS and motivations of a programmer to contribute to FOSS.

- Justified credibility for the work that would be delivered in the form   of stipend.

Credibility in the FOSS world is recognition, not money. You will be acknowledged publicly for your work in the form of copyright notices, blog posts, references, etc.

Looking forward to Anticipatory options !!

If stipend is not necessary, you have a multitude of options. Start by reading code:

https://sourceforge.net/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join http://kde.org/community/getinvolved/ http://www.gnome.org/community/ http://www.xfce.org/development/?PHPSESSID=a38a8a169f0a66afa71b83a984aa72ac

to name a few.

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 13:43 +0530, Sugandha Naolekar wrote:

Are there some stipendary cool projects available to be worked on, which has some kind of mentorship and I will get a liberty of working on it on only weekends? It will provide me following:

actually open source does not work this way. Here we look for projects we are interested in and work for free. The best way is to look around for projects in your field of expertise and try out one or two. If you mention your field of interest we can help you by suggesting projects.

• Learning with all the possible trial and error and experiments by

playing around with it.

• A platform to go into the technological world one-level up.
• A leverage added into the profile.
• Justified credibility for the work that would be delivered in the

form of stipend.

the first three points will work - credibility will attach to you when you get commit rights to some project. Believe me, commit rights is the passport to your future.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Sugandha Naolekar sugandha.n87@gmail.com wrote:

@Siddhesh   The links specified by you are the first steps I should take?

They are links to various projects, with the sourceforge link being a place where there are thousands of projects. You should start reading and understand the code for any project first, before you actually start contributing.