Hi all, Debian's application to Google Summer of Code 2013 includes a project area for expanding the RTC eco-system in Debian[1]. Given the nature of RTC and the need for interoperability, this naturally has benefits for upstream projects like Empathy.
I'm really keen to find potential co-mentors from the Empathy team who would be able to help in the selection and mentoring of students in this project Some particular objectives we need to keep in mind: - it must be a coding project - as it is under the Debian GSoC application, each student project must demonstrate some benefit to Debian. As Empathy is the default RTC client in Debian, this should not be too hard to justify. Some possible Empathy-related things that come to mind: - integration with alternative TURN servers for better NAT traversal - convenient/integrated provisioning along with regular UNIX or mail accounts - improving security and resilience against VoIP spam in a federated/public network - click-to-dial from other applications in a Debian Linux desktop, including things like ENUM resolution - developing unit tests or continuous-integration methods for testing against other components in the Debian environment (e.g. Debian's SIP and XMPP servers) If anybody would like to help as a co-mentor, or by promoting this opportunity to other co-mentors or potential GSoC students, please get in touch with me. Regards, Daniel 1. http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#Enabling_free_multimedia_real-time_communications_.28RTC.29_with_Debian _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy