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Interviews of Damien Sandras

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-18 09:47. Ekiga
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Two interviews of Damien Sandras, author of GnomeMeeting and one of the organizers of FOSDEM, have recently been published on the Journal du Net and on the O'Reilly network.

You can learn more about the views of the author about the future of GnomeMeeting as a professionnal VoIP application, respecting protocols and standards and most notably soon SIP, but also about his conception of things "do one thing but do it well" for the project. You can also read about the new features of GnomeMeeting 1.2 and what you can expect in the future. There will be big changes.

You can read the Journal du Net interview (in french) and the O'Reilly Network interview (in english). GnomeMeeting is hosted on http://www.gnomemeeting.org.

Of course that's all in the article too . . .

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-03-19 13:44.

I'm not sure what you mean by "at the program level," I guess using one app instead of two. Damien talks about someone implementing what you describe via gnomemeeting's new d-bus interface.

I think it needs to become generally understood that when people talk about "the UNIX philosophy" especially on the desktop, that we can have "one tool that does one thing very well, but also integrates very well with other tools that do their things very well." It's not anti-unix to be able to start a video chat from an instant messenger, but it still doesn't have to be the instant messenger's job.

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