Hello! This is my first message here, I've been introduced here by a fellow member of fsfe.org, Massimo Barbieri (thank you!). A couple of years ago I started Kontalk[1], what I thought it could be a community-driven instant messaging network. For all this time, I remained "in the dark", developing this solo project and distributing it only to people I know. After moving to Google Code[2] a month ago, registrations started rising quickly (also due to the Reddit[3] effect), people started donating and showing interest to the project. Now I'm here to introduce it to the fsf, I hope it will gain more interest. In fact we need help and developers :-)
As I stated before, Kontalk is a community-driven instant messaging network, built on XMPP (100% compatible - e.g. works with Pidgin, we added a few extensions in order to make it more suitable for mobile phones, domain federation and a couple of other things). We aim to create a network of server nodes run by the community (that is, cheap servers) using XMPP on the same domain (e.g. kontalk.net), based on mobile phone number identification. Primary concerns are democracy and security: client-side encryption, phone numbers not going around the network, a "vote system" based on asymmetric encryption signing, etc... a network running and managing by itself. Although these are all a bunch of nice words :P we do have a service running on our own server. But it's the first release of Kontalk server[4], using a proprietary protocol (source code is available of course), then I decided to switch to XMPP, but both server and clients are still under heavy development. We think we could make the "big switch" at the end of this summer. XMPP development is going fast, we have 2 working servers (still with a few bugs of course) I and a few other people are testing (you're welcome to download the very unstable alpha XMPP client from Google Code).
Kontalk[5] is still far from being a full WhatsApp replacement: it still lacks many features and it needs help[6], contributions and ideas from the community.
That's it, I guess. Of course this is just an introduction, and remember this is still an embrional solo project, so please be kind :-)
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kontalk [2] http://code.google.com/p/kontalk/ [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1aqekt/an_open_source_decentralised... [4] http://code.google.com/p/kontalk/source/browse?repo=pyserver [5] http://www.kontalk.org/ [6] http://www.kontalk.net/
-- Daniele
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256
Hi!
Il 29/03/2013 15:47, Daniele Ricci ha scritto:
Kontalk[5] is still far from being a full WhatsApp replacement: it still lacks many features and it needs help[6], contributions and ideas from the community.
I think that Kontalk is a great free software project that deserve the help it needs. I'm using it since 3 weeks and I suggested to install it to most of my phone contacts (since 3 weeks I stop using SMS). I think that Kontalk is useful to free our Android and fit perfectly to our Android campaign. Maybe we could give a small help to it talking about it in one of the next newsletters.
Ciao, Massimo - -- IM: massimo@jabber.fsfe.org - OpenPGP Key-Id: 0x5D168FC1
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256
On 29/03/13 15:47, Daniele Ricci wrote:
That's it, I guess. Of course this is just an introduction, and remember this is still an embrional solo project, so please be kind
Just to say that I've been using Kontalk since the day it was added to f-droid, I've introduced it to about 20 people, and use it personally for communication with 10 contacts on a daily basis (including to FSFE staff).
It's especially useful for me because I recently moved to Berlin from the UK and free text and image messaging allows me stay in touch with folks back home.
I agree that it fits perfectly into the Free Your Android campaign.
Keep up the great work!
Sam.
- -- Sam Tuke Campaign Manager Free Software Foundation Europe IM : samtuke@jabber.fsfe.org Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org Is freedom important to you? Join the fellowship.fsfe.org
* Sam Tuke samtuke@fsfe.org [2013-05-02 14:57:36 +0200]:
On 29/03/13 15:47, Daniele Ricci wrote:
That's it, I guess. Of course this is just an introduction, and remember this is still an embrional solo project, so please be kind
Just to say that I've been using Kontalk since the day it was added to f-droid, I've introduced it to about 20 people, and use it personally for communication with 10 contacts on a daily basis (including to FSFE staff).
I am one of them, and I also like it very much!
Thanks! Matthias
Hi!
Il 02/05/2013 17:52, Matthias Kirschner ha scritto:
I am one of them, and I also like it very much!
How can we help in order to increase the Kontalk network? Do you think it can be mentioned in the next nl release?
Ciao, Massimo
Although I really would like that, I think Kontalk is not ready for this yet. It would mean a possible explosion of new registrations - as much as my server can take, which is quite a lot, but that's not the problem, I prefer to wait for the XMPP switch. Is there a NL for targeted to developers? Kontalk really needs people to work on it :-)
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Massimo Barbieri massimo@fsfe.org wrote:
Hi!
Il 02/05/2013 17:52, Matthias Kirschner ha scritto:
I am one of them, and I also like it very much!
How can we help in order to increase the Kontalk network? Do you think it can be mentioned in the next nl release?
Ciao, Massimo
-- XMPP: massimo@jabber.fsfe.org OpenPGP Key-Id: 0x5D168FC1
Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion