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Ekiga (formerly called GnomeMeeting) was a VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows. It was distributed as free software under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. It was the default VoIP client in Ubuntu until October 2009, when it was replaced by Empathy. Ekiga supports both the SIP and H.323 (based on OPAL) protocols and is fully interoperable with any other SIP compliant application and with Microsoft NetMeeting. It supports many high-quality audio and video codecs.

Key facts

Software.name
Ekiga
Software.logo
Ekigaweblogo.png
Software.screenshot
Ekiga in a call.png
Software.caption
Ekiga 3.0.0
Software.developer
Damien Sandras
Software.platform
Unix-like, Microsoft Windows
Software.programming_language
C/C++, with GUI written in C
Software.genre
VoIP, video conferencing
Software.license
GPL-2.0-or-later

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Official website

Ekiga ~ Free Your Speech

ekiga.org

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Features
  • Integration
  • User interface
  • Technical features
  • History
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Ekiga (formerly called GnomeMeeting) was a VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows. It was distributed as free software under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. It was the default VoIP client in Ubuntu until October 2009, when it was replaced by Empathy. Ekiga supports both the SIP and H.323 (based on OPAL) protocols and is fully interoperable with any other SIP compliant application and with Microsoft NetMeeting. It supports many high-quality audio and video codecs.

Ekiga was initially written by Damien Sandras in order to graduate from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), and was further developed and maintained by a community-based team led by Sandras. The logo was designed based on his concept by Andreas Kwiatkowski.

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