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1 Three free tools for teleconferencing with a 'virtual presence'
2 FSF High priority
3 Developers Make a Good Call With Fedora Talk
4 Interview with Ekiga developers
5 Skype 2.0 vs. Ekiga for Linux
6 IP Telephony Intro - We take a close look at Voice over IP.
7 Ekiga videophone gets you connected

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Three free tools for teleconferencing with a 'virtual presence'

November 19, 2008 (Computerworld)

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FSF High priority

"Free software replacement for Skype

Skype is a proprietary Voice-over-IP program that uses a proprietary protocol. Skype is seducing free software users into using proprietary software, often two users at a time. We do not want to encourage the creation of a Skype compatible client, but instead, we want to encourage you to create, contribute to, or promote the use of free software alternatives to Skype, such as Ekiga, and to encourage to adoption and use of free VoIP, video, and chat protocols such as SIP and XMPP/Jingle.

Ways to help. The easiest way to help is to not use Skype and to encourage the use a free software alternative, instead. There are a number of programs, such as Ekiga, that are working alternatives to Skype. Users of such programs should file bug reports and feature requests to the projects. If you are not a developer, you can consider contributing to documentation and tutorials for such projects, as well as filing feature and bug requests. Developers should consider helping free software VoIP and video, chat, and multimedia communications projects."

FSF High priority

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Developers Make a Good Call With Fedora Talk

At FUDCon Boston June 19-21, 2008, the Fedora community announced a new way of helping members and developers communicate with each other: Fedora Talk

"Fedora Talk can be used with one of the many VOIP soft phones that comes with Fedora. Ekiga and Twinkle are popular."

More info on this initiative here.

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