RE: [Libreoffice-qa] [LibreOffice-QA] Minutes - March 22nd, 2013

Christian 

Asterisk will allow you to use these international numbers as well. You will
still need to have a sip trunk provider which the TDF probably already has
as well as a dial in number.

Mumble sadly doesn’t support the ability to interface with VoIP software at
all. Someone actually on their irc channel was laughing at the thought of
someone implementing the necessary interface to do that.

-----Original Message-----
From: lohmaier@googlemail.com [mailto:lohmaier@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of
Christian Lohmaier
Sent: 28 March 2013 17:24
To: Jonathan Aquilina; Petr Mladek; Christian Lohmaier; Florian Reisinger;
libreoffice-dev; Libreoffice-qa; Robinson Tryon; Joren; Joel Madero
Subject: Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [LibreOffice-QA] Minutes - March 22nd, 2013

Hi Björn, *,

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 03:49:54PM +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > Sorry for another email. I just looked at the talkyoo site, all it 
> > seems like it's just a VoIP provider.

not "just" a VoIP provider. It provides international telephone conferencing
using standard telephone numbers that are free to call from various
countries in the world. That is pretty special....


> > Question then becomes why not set up something like asterisk and get 
> > a line with a sip trunk provider?

> Because:
> a/ someone has to do the work
> b/ the infra team actually setup mumble at one point in time, but it was
mostly
>    unused, thus demotivating the team to work on this without a concrete
use.
> Personally, I would love to have the QA call on murmur/mumble, if 
> others would join in there. IMHO it has better audio quality and 
> better support bigger audiences than classical SIP.

I also liked the audio quality of mumble very much (at least I had a
feedback on my microphone settings - when dialing in using my softphone I
always wonder whether people can hear me or whether I blow their ears :-))

Biggest drawback with mumble is that it requires internet connectivity for
all participants. Especially for the BOD-calls this was a KO-criteria since
Florian and others rely on being able to call in from the road, using their
regular telephones, not having internet-access..

But that of course doesn't mean that other groups cannot use mumble..
But as Björn correctly stated: When mumble was rolled out for testing (along
with openmeeting for example as another alternative) - feedback was
basically nonexistent.
And when it went offline, nobody complained....

ciao
Christian