Voice IM project proposal

[Eben Eliason]

As I recall, the possibility of creating a push to talk service that
could be used within any activity (provided by default as part of the
activity class itself) was discussed not too long ago as well.  I
think this may be a smart option, especially since a push-to-talk
activity would be visually pretty sparse anyway, and this way every
Sugar activity can take advantage of it.

- Eben


On Dec 12, 2007 10:55 PM, Walter Bender <walter at laptop.org> wrote:
> Just as a reminder, there is push-to-talk already built into EToys,
> though I haven't tried it for awhile--it certainly used to work just
> fine.
>
> -walter
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 9:33 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> > although full voip would be nice, simply adding voice to chat in a
> > push-to-talk fashion might be nice, too.  i don't see why we shouldn't
> > do both, unless the exact same people are invoved.
> >  --scott
> >
> >
> > On 12/12/07, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:21:59AM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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> > > > Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
> > > > > 4. Longer description       : Support voice conversation using voice IM
> > > > >                             : between any two XO in a local mesh or
> > > > >                             : globally, using the XO presence
> > > > >                             : infrastructure
> > > >
> > > > This would be welcome.  VoIP has been part of the plan from the beginning,
> > > and
> > > > there's even a draft implementation at
> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Push_to_Talk
> > > > and early discussion at
> > > > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/22
> > > >
> > > > VoIP development is currently blocking on Telepathy-Salut, which is our
> > > > serverless communication manager.  Telepathy-Salut does not yet implement
> > > any
> > > > real-time channels (e.g. RTP), so there is no clean way to build VoIP into
> > > the
> > > > presence infrastructure when not connected to the global internet.
> > >
> > > That is quite an overstatement. It is true that salut at currently doesn't
> > > support the telepathy interfaces needed for video conferencing. Which does
> > > indeed mean we can't do VOIP when not connected to the internet at this
> > > point.
> > > Adding jingle support on salut is planned, but untill now we had other
> > > priorities :)
> > >
> > > This does not mean VOIP development is blocked on salut though.. Gabble does
> > > support the needed bits for VOIP. So you can continue work on the Video Chat
> > > application right now, without needing to wait on salut. Also thanks to the
> > > beauty of the telepathy design, as soon as salut starts support VOIP, it
> > > will
> > > work with the VOIP activity without any changes. So this work can be done in
> > > parallel.
> > >
> > > And last but not least, Connection manager never implement RTP or other real
> > > time channels themselves, they just do the signalling. All the actual work
> > > of
> > > sending and receiving the media is done by another component called
> > > stream-engine which is independant of the protocol used for signalling.
> > >
> > >
> > >   Sjoerd
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