Fedora Talk User Cases

This page is intended to be a comprehensive list of all the things a User might want to do with FedoraTalk. A separate page holds things an Adminstrator might need to do. These use cases are developed as part of the FAD Fedora Talk 2009 game plan.

• If it is works today, there should be a link to a wiki page explaining how to do it
• If it doesn't exist to day, there should be a link to an Ticket with a keyword of ftalk.

Make a Simple Call

A Fedora community member wants to call another Fedora community member

1. Configure phone
   1. Configure softphone
   2. Configure hardphone
2. Authenticate with FedoraTalk
3. Look up phone number
4. Place call

Receive a Simple Call

A Fedora community member would like to receive a call another Fedora community member

1. Configure phone to accept call
   1. Configure softphone
   2. Configure hardphone
2. Authenticate with FedoraTalk
3. Wait for call
4. Answer call

Forward calls to their sip/asterisk server

A fedora member would like calls to their Fedora account to go to their sip/asterisk server for smart handling (such as further forwarding to different locations based on time of day). Rather than having their server poll Fedora Talk (to maintain their registration) it would probably be more efficient to use forwarding.

1. Configure their fedora talk config to forward calls using sip/iax

Host A Conference

A Fedora community member would like to host a conference where three or more people can participate in the same call.

1. Obtain a conference code and conferencing priveldges
   1. How/Where?
2. Start conference
   1. How/Where?

Host A Recorded Conference

A Fedora community member would like to host a conference where three or more people can participate in the same call and have that call recorded for personal playback and download.

1. Obtain a conference code and conferencing priveldges
   1. How/Where?
2. Start conference
   1. How/Where?
3. Start recording of the conference
4. Stop recording of conference
5. Retrieve recorded conference

Listen to a Live Conference (not participate)

A group of people is participating in a call or streaming a call from a live event. Fedora community members would like to listen to the call

1. User decides how to conenct to conference
   1. Web streaming
   2. Softphone
   3. Hardphone
2. User connects to conference

Participate in a Live Conference

A group of people is participating in a call or streaming a call from a live event. Fedora community members would like to listen and participate in the call.

1. User configures phone
2. User authenticates with FedoraTalk
3. User conencts to conference
4. User enters conference code

Host a Private Conference

A group of people would like to have a conference which requires a level of privacy--the access code is not public knowledge.

Remote talk at Events

Delivering remote talks at conferences and events removing the need for travel where possible. susmit 17:37, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Open Questions

1. In cases of public conferences, can/should we further restrict codec use to promote the lowest possible bandwidth per caller? Or is this a dynamic feature that the Asterisk server and clients manage automatically as call numbers grow? --pfrields 11:21, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
   • My (Bruno) memory is that it is better for everyone in a conference to be using the same codecs. But one of the real Asterisk guys might understand this better.
   • Some of the better/best codecs are patented and we may not be able to use them.
2. Add yours today :-)