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Damien Sandras is known in the free software community due to his work on GNOME, more specifically on Ekiga, the leading open-source softphone for the Linux desktop. He is one of the founders of FOSDEM, an event dedicated to free software developers in Europe.
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FOSDEM was initially created by Raphaël Bauduin under the name OSDEM. Sandras joined Bauduin and helped him setting up the event.[1] Sandras was one of the driving forces behind the organization during 7 years.[2]
Ekiga was supported by the Free Software Foundation and more specifically by Richard Stallman as an alternative to the proprietary Skype. Stallman's e-mail signature contained a mention to the softphone during a few years:
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
— Richard Stallman, [3]
Sandras is a graduate of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). He is mentioned on the university portal in the University Success Stories.[4]
He is now leading Be IP, a startup dealing with enterprise open-source VoIP software.[5]
Sources
edit- http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/itws/050317_it_gnomemeeting.shtml
- http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/03/17/gnomemeeting.html
- http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-11-005-20-IN-GN Archived 2005-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070629120232/http://ghj.sunsite.dk/index.php?1=articles%2F1%2Finterview_gnomemeeting.html&article=1
References
edit- ^ "FOSDEM inception". 13 February 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ "Bye Bye FOSDEM". Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ "Use Ekiga, not Skype". Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ "UCL Success Stories". Retrieved June 5, 2018.
- ^ "Interview of Sandras during the Libre-TIC event (French)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
External links
edit- Home page Archived 2018-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Ekiga.org
- Be IP