Zoep Goes Open Source

An anonymous reader writes "Voipster has released their Zoep client-side VoIP engine as an open source project licensed under the GPL (now called OpenZoep) along with an OpenZoep Firefox extension. If you've been thinking about incorporating a VoIP soft phone client into your project, this article details the API and discusses how to work with the OpenZoep client."

Comments

Gaim support for SIP as well

[morgan_greywolf]

Gaim 2.0 (currently in beta) actually has support for SIP/SIMPLE thanks to the Google Summer of Code.

So we've actually had VoIP capabilities in open source projects since last summer.

Zoep, Zpoe, Zope, Poze?

[Speare]

Does OpenZoep run on Zope? Who comes up with these names? I swear, these names sound like they come from a Dr. Seuss book. "If you hope to wash soup off a rope, simply scrub it with SKROPE! Skrope is so strong that no rope is too long!"

Dirty talk!

[jpopper]

Wash your mouth out with Zoep!

The Killer App

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

This is it. This is the big one.

An open source VOIP app that just plugs into your browser. Now, the only question is, does it support SMTP style aliases?

Re:The Killer App

[FireFury03]

So... you want to be able to have a single number ring through to 10 alternate numbers at the same time? That makes no sense!

No, actually it makes perfect sense. This is implemented in all traditional PABXes - e.g. someone phones your business and it rings several phones. Whichever is picked up first gets the call. Or another popular implementation of the same idea is hunt groups - i.e. a call comes in and it rings for a short time on one phone, if it isn't answered it rings another phone instead.

Link to Firefox extension

[Pneuma ROCKS]

The Zoep Firefox extension can be downloaded from here: http://www.glaxstar.com/zoep/. I sometimes have connection problems, but in general it has worked quite well.

Re:Do they run out of names or what?

[h_benderson]

> At first I looked at the topic and was sure it's a typo

Please, the correct spelling is typo3, not just typo.

Announcing: Ploen

[jdfox]

Ploen is an out-of-the-box ready VoIP system that is built on the powerful and free Zoep client-side VoIP engine. It requires minimal effort to set up, is deeply flexible, and provides you with a system for managing VoIP that is ideal for project groups, communities and intranets.

And it goes 0 - 60 mph in 5 seconds, as you can see from the Ploen site.

Related Projects

[Silanus]

OpenWengo:
SIP compliant VoIP client (+ Video ?), Firefox extension, GPL: http://openwengo.com/

Ekiga:
VoIP and video conferencing application (H.323 and SIP) for GNOME, GPL: http://www.ekiga.org/

PhoneGaim:
VoIP system based on the Gaim instant messaging software and the SIP protocol, GPL: http://www.phonegaim.com/ (sponsored by Linspire: Some controversy exists over the perceived difficulty faced by non-Linspire users who wish to install PhoneGaim on their Linux system.)

sipX:
SIP based products (pbx, softphone, and supporting products), LGPL: http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipX/

Google's Libjingle:
Implementation of Jingle and Jingle-Audio (proposed extensions to XMPP), BSD License: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libjingle/

KPhone:
VoIP application for the KDE desktop environment, SIP, GPL: http://kphone.sourceforge.net/


Skype: http://www.skype.com/

Google Talk: http://www.google.com/talk/

Gizmo Project: http://gizmoproject.com/