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Long time no see!

February 06th, 2012 | Category: Weblog

The reasons why I have been silent

I have been silent on my blog during the last two years. There are several reasons to this. I went through a serie of emotionally hard to live events during which I had no time left for Ekiga. I guess it happens to all Free Software authors who are developing during their spare time.

Things are getting better now. I have moved into a new house 2 years ago. I also met Claire a few months after I separated from Jonita and I am finally getting prepared to become a father!

I decided to dedicate some spare time to the Ekiga project again. During the time I was not coding, a few people like Eugen Dedu, Julien Puydt, Yannick Defais, and a few others have made their best to keep the project alive.

A few interviews

Two interviews have been published a while ago.

The first interview has been published by Josette on her Josetteorama blog.
The second interview has been published by Billy Toulas on OSArena. It is available both in English and in Greek.

Ekiga 4.00

Work has started on Ekiga 4.00 a few weeks ago. The release should be ready around March when we have done enough testing.

Stay tuned for more information about this exciting new release!

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  1. Venky February 6th, 2012 9:16 pm

    Would here be client side video encoding/HD video support? Also would there be an option to do group video chat?
    How does this differ from telepathy?

  2. fabiand February 6th, 2012 9:35 pm

    Nice to hear from you again :) And congratulations.

  3. Damien Sandras February 6th, 2012 10:20 pm

    Venky: It is already the case.
    Fabiand: Nice to hear from you too ! Thanks :-)

  4. lefred February 6th, 2012 10:28 pm

    Nice to hear from you again Damien !

    Congratulation for you real life fork and for the upcoming 4.0 of your virtual baby !

  5. Josep February 6th, 2012 11:45 pm

    Nice to hear from you again! I thought about you this weekend at fosdem, I even said hi and shook hands with someone I thought was you, pretty embarrassing :)

    And congratulations also on your child, excellent news!

  6. Kenneth Christiansen February 7th, 2012 12:44 am

    Good that you are back! And good luck with everything :-) Missed seeing you are FOSDEM like back in the days!

  7. Olav Vitters February 7th, 2012 9:34 am

    Welcome back!

  8. Damien Sandras February 7th, 2012 10:28 am

    Thanks to all for the nice comments!

    Josep & Kenneth, if you still come to FOSDEM next year, please ping me a bit in advance so that I can come and we can drink a Belgian beer together :)

  9. Evgeniy S. Lukoyanov February 26th, 2012 11:16 am

    Welcome back! You’re doing the right job, thank you.

  10. markit March 15th, 2012 9:41 pm

    Welcome back, I wish you all my best for your life above all, and for your work with ekiga too. Thanks a lot for giving us Libre software like that.

  11. Lyle March 28th, 2012 2:13 pm

    Glad to hear you’re back.

    Does Ekiga support snomONE now ?

  12. jerome April 6th, 2012 9:11 am

    I have problems with Ekiga on windows 7 x64. It can’t detect any of my video sources (logitech HD B990, manycam)
    Local video stay gray, and can’t see nothing
    Skype works fine with this sources…
    Any ideas?

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