OpenMind 2007: Standardization, Industry-Community Cooperations and Mobile Linux
After Carlos, Nils Faerber from LiPS (a Linux telephony consortium that includes telephony operators, hardware vendors and software vendors) takes the stage.
Nils looks much more like we image an Open Source developer to look - more like a character from User Friendly than a character from Dilbert.
He gives a high-level overview of the current state of Linux telephony - a mixed open and proprietary stack without many open standards - and the state the LiPS hopes to bring about where the stack is open, from source code to APIs to standards.
Their focus is on architecture, certification, standards, collaboration and lobbying. They won't be focused on heavy software development, but on enabling others to do this.
Nils also covers what they have currently available or are promoting - such as specifications for reference models, address book and voice call modules and UI services (widgets, text input methods, etc.) These specs are all available freely from the LiPS site.
Commendably, LiPS is trying to do its work in a way that develops and supports future cooperation by working with existing standards, making their work available to all, ensuring to keep an eye on security and so on.
In fact, looking at the LiPS site, you can get a good overview of what Nils is covering by reading through the top-level items of the site.
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Posted on Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 23:24
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