Paid work for Tomasz

[Logan Browne]

Hi Niklas,

With the widespread use of lync at my employer and our customers, I'd love 
to see this working. Please feel free to contact me off list if there is a 
way that I might be able to bring some additional resources to the problem. 
 

Regards,

-Logan

On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:22:27 UTC-8, Niklas Andersson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I would cast my vote on stuff that needs to be done to get Pidgin 3 out 
> of the door.
>
>  Let me introduce myself. I work for Ericsson as a contractor and I am 
> currently paving the way to improve the SIPE-plugin (I.e the Microsoft 
> Lync-support in Pidgin)
>
>  Basically we want to get cross-platform desktop screen sharing to work as 
> well as adding support for encrypted audio/video.
>
>  On the lower levels we have two issues we need to fix:
>
>  1. Get SRTP into Farstream (It is already in Gstreamet - this is 
> important in order to get encryption going)
>  2. Fix MS-TURN for TCP-support in libnice. (We need reliable transport 
> for the desktop screen sharing because it uses RDP)
>
>  I have got the funding in place to fix this, and we are sorting out what 
> developers will do what work. Everything will be open sourced, and done in 
> concert with upstream.
>
>  For the desktop screen sharing-stuff the plan is to use xfreerdp (client) 
> and FreeRDS (server), both coming from the FreeRDP-project, and we are 
> collaborating with them.
>
>  We will start as soon as possible, and I have come to the understanding 
> that we must target Pidgin 3, because the Pidgin 3 trunk uses most recent 
> gstreamer, while Pidgin 2.x uses the older version. I know Pidgin 3 still 
> have a way to go, but it makes more sense to target the upcoming version I 
> believe.
>
>  Hopefully you will see more news coming from me soon.
>
> Best regards,
> Niklas
>
>
>
> 2014/1/8 Mark Doliner <ma... at kingant.net <javascript:>>
>
>> Hi developers!
>>
>> Instant Messaging Freedom, Inc (https://imfreedom.org/) would like to
>> pay Tomasz Wasilczyk to do development on libpurple, Pidgin, Finch,
>> and Adium. The IMF board doesn't control the development of these--we
>> developers always have the final say about what changes are made to
>> our code (although yes, there is a lot of overlap between the IMF
>> board and we developers).
>>
>> That being said, what things would you like to see Tomasz work on?
>> What do you think is most important to the project?
>>
>> I've created a Google Doc with an initial list of ideas here:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HOLSeBV7Ts336YwKEsg87iC_jhPstzLlNrvnzXzM-DU/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> It's world-readable and everyone can add comments (right-click and
>> select 'Comment', or
>> select Insert-->Comment from the menu bar). Please add suggestions,
>> corrections, suggest better phrasing, point out problems, etc.
>>
>> Note: I believe that leaving a comment on the doc will make your
>> Google account name publicly visible to anyone else who looks at the
>> doc. I believe that you'll remain anonymous if you simply view the
>> doc.
>>
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