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Ekiga 3.2.6 stable is out (2009-09-22, release notes):

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Download development snapshots or non-free binary plugins

Ekiga is a software phone and video conferencing application.

More specifically, Ekiga is a VoIP, IP Telephony, and Video Conferencing application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with SIP or H.323 compatible hardware and software. It supports many audio and video codecs and all modern VoIP features for both SIP and H.323. Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP, as well as audio and video. Ekiga was formerly known as GnomeMeeting.

Contents 1 Manual and FAQ 2 Users Corner 2.1 Configuration 2.2 Using Ekiga 3 Press Corner 4 Developers Corner

Manual and FAQ

• Manual
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Features
• ToDo
• Hardware Compatibility
• Interoperability
• Troubleshooting

Users Corner

Configuration

• The Configuration Assistant
  • Ekiga.net VoIP service subscription
  • Audio setup
  • Ekiga behind a NAT router
  • Internet ports used by Ekiga
• Test your setup (Fun Numbers, echo test, conference room, Toll Free,...)

Using Ekiga

• The Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • Chat
    • Audio Calls
    • Sending Instant Messages
    • Video Calls
  • Manage
    • Contacts
    • Calls
    • Addressbook
    • VoIP Services Accounts
  • Advanced Settings
• Software compatibility
  • Asterisk
    • Ekiga as an Asterisk client
    • Connecting Asterisk to ekiga.net
    • Asterisk and Voicemail
  • Avahi (Rendez-Vous, Bonjour, Zeroconf free implementation)
  • Connecting Windows Messenger 5.1 to ekiga.net

Press Corner

• Reviewers Notes
• Reviewers FAQ

Developers Corner

• Ekiga love You want to get started contributing to Ekiga?
• Download Ekiga development snapshots (binary packages)
• Download Ekiga sources
• Compiling Ekiga
• Debugging Ekiga (-d 4 output and stack backtrace)

• Ekiga git repository
• Bugzilla and list of all opened ekiga bugs (NEEDINFO included)

• Changes needed on ekiga.org: ToDo List
• Changes needed on ekiga.net: OpenSER migration and Drupal migration

• Release Manager - how we distribute releases
• Pre-release test - a simple summary of needed pre-release tests

• Contacts Storage
• API documents: for the API of the lib directory in ekiga, please use doxygen to generate them
• Wiki documentation guidelines