OpenWengo

Development

kvats.net is osAlliance 's softphone supported by A1 . It is Free Software and has been built in co-operation with the WengoPhone and qutecom developer communities.

If you want to join the development of the kvats softphone client you are welcome to contact us or subscribe our mailing list . Technical issues and feature proposals can be also discussed at our forum.

The kvats.net source code can be found in our mercurial repository. If you want to build kvats on your Linux system, follow the instructions in the technical forum (see also comments here and here).

We are continuosly working on improvements. Here is a list of open issues . We keep track of issues on a roundup tracker .

Our partner A1 has been awarding ideas for VoIP / SIP based applications and invited the best for the A1InnovationDays event.

We strongly believe that IP-based communication will be even more dominant in a few years. The basis for all applications, whether it’s plain telephony or the fancy remote control of your fridge at home, is a direct, peer-to-peer IP connection. That’s exactly the essence of IMS, the IP Multimedia Subsystem. IMS is the standardized, vendor-, operator- and even network-independent technological platform to realize peer-to-peer communication. SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol is the communication protocol of choice in an IMS infrastructure. Therefore SIP is often called the “http” of IP-based communication.

More than 40 proposals showed their believe that they can build better applications with IMS or SIP.

The list of suggests areas included:

Applications making use of transmitting different media streams like voice, video, text, data
Applications that deal with client presence information (online, busy, mobile, PC)
Multiplayer, multiplatform games
Machine-2-machine applications
Whatever you're excited about!

These were the dates and tasks of the A1 Innovation Event:
July 3, 2008: Start of the A1 InnovationDays and call for ideas
July 15, 2008: 2 interim prizes will be awarded
August 1, 2008: 2 interim prizes will be awarded
August 15, 2008: End of idea entries (CET 24:00)
August 18, 2008: Announcement of the five selected teams for the prototyping event
August 29 – September 1, 2008: Prototyping event at the monastery Und (near Vienna)

The winning team is the "A1 Sports Reporter".

Watch out the A1InnovationDays pages for further details and the WIKI describing technical aproaches of the five competing teams.