Profiles, VoIP, and location awareness - SoC idea proposal

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Tyler Williams wrote:

> Next, I would like to get a VoIP client up and running on the phone. Something
> simple, preferably like a daemon or commandline app that will run in the
> background. I've looked at libjingle, googles solution, as well as openZoep,
> or something else.

I was planning to add pjsua, a small footprint commandline SIP client, and
build some openmoko GUI for it.

> Thirdly, letting the profile manager be location aware, either through the
> GPS, or scanning for known available networks (bluetooth, or in the future,
> wifi) would be done.
>
> Finally, everything  could be tied together.

You might want to integrate VPN (IPsec, L2TP and OpenVPN) settings into this.
And make it very visible which profile you are using (and somehow convey the
message "warning no crypto" vs "safely using crypto".

Ideally, I would like to see these profiles be able to say "If not connected
to a VPN, please do not start my IM or VOIP client".

> Anyway, I plan on submitting an application, I just wanted to see if there was
> any interest among people who will be mentoring in something like this. If I'm
> way off base here, or this stuff all already exists and I just missed it,
> please let me know...

I wouldn't mind being a co-mentor on this.

Paul
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