Jaminy Prabaharan

Debian has been participating for Outreachy and Google summer of Code as mentor organisation. The session would be about the journey of Debian and the discussion of students and mentors on their ongoing projects.

Other people: Kristi Progri

Do you have phone numbers in email messages that you have never copied to your address book? Would you like a systematic way to find them and compare the to your address book?

This project worked for Google Summer of Code-2016 for Debian with the title "Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software", one of the Real Time Communication project. The first part of the project is email mining where the necessary data are extracted from the mail and to make into web interface.

When it comes to voice and video over IP, most people nowadays are quick to use Skype, Whatsapp, or Viber. These systems come with a big community of people though this Software is only free as free as in beer. Protocols and proprietary, privacy is basically non existent. There are though several free alternatives like Jitsi, Linphone, Ekiga, Tox (qtox) and Mumble. However, the communities are often small and due to a lack of servers firewall traversal can be very cumbersome. Even if all these techniques are also available as open source software (ice turn server, siproxy, jitsi conference bridge, asterisk, freesip), bootstrapping any business relevant network based on these free alternatives is still hard. Automatic dependency resolution does actually help in debian, however integration and configuration could be greatly simplified. This project will evaluate options to achieve this simplification and integrate necessary changes and documentation into the respective debian packages.