I was sad to read Kevin Fenzi’s post about Fedora Talk closing down. Fedora Talk was a Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone system running Asterisk, freely available to anyone with a Fedora account.
I thought it was a great service with a lot of potential, but apparently there wasn’t the level of interest and use we assumed at the start. Sadly it was never used to stream a Fedora board meeting as originally planned. I had a lot of fun working on it at a FAD in 2009.
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May 5, 2011 at 2:04 am
I share the same problem of Nicu, because that I never used this system too.
RIP Fedora Talk!
May 4, 2011 at 2:59 am
I never used the service and I think there are two main reasons for it:
– as I am not a native English speaker, I prefer written communication, is easier for me to express myself and understand… a conversation of two or more poor English speakers can be… funny, to say the least;
– voice is real time, so we being a world wide community, those living outside of Americas will find the exciting real time events happen when they are not available.
As a result, when I printed my Fedora business cards a couple of years ago, I *deleted* the VoIP number from them, so nobody tries to call me by mistake on that number.
May 3, 2011 at 3:36 pm
It is a shame, I only used it twice, once for the after release meeting (I forget what the term used to describe the meeting) which you were a part of, and once to speak with a fellow bugzapper. It never seemed to get traction.
I mentioned it for possible use in the bugzappers to better collaborate during meetings, however, it was rejected by non-english speakers. There was also the issue of how to transcribe the meetings for those that may want it in that form.
Like I said, it is a shame.