Re: [Ring] Fwd: We received your message!

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

Hi John,

GNU Ring is currently able to communicate with some known
addressbook/contact management software. In GNU+Linux system
distributions, I know from a fact that GNU Ring communicates with GNOME
Evolutions, which I assume is the default one in Debian (at least it is
so in Trisquel 7.0 Belenos).

Try adding a contact which is neither in your addressbook/contact
manager nor in GNU Ring, and see if it appears in both. If positive, you
can try editing more details of the contact in that manager.

Currently in-system documentation is indeed lacking, some work still
must be done to provide Texinfo pages (which are better for reading and
allow for a more organized topic structure).

As for how to contribute, you can take a look at the link given in [1].

As for calling landlines and cellphones using the Ring protocol (that
is: not SIP) I don't know if that is possible. As for SIP, despite not
being able to afford one such service I'll speak of nor being under the
coverage area, I know that there are service providers (mainly those
members of Soprani.ca project, see [2]) which make the link between
SIP+XMPP <-> Baseband (or was it "->" only? I don't know, it's better to
ask the provider first).

Alternativelly, get in touch with Soprani.ca on how to help your local
economy grow and also provide another instance of the project. This way,
people around your city will possibly have an incentive to drop whatever
non-free non-standardized instant communication technology.

[1] <https://ring.cx/en/contribute>.

[2] <https://soprani.ca/>.

2017-10-30T10:20:00-0400 Steven  Roth wrote:
> De: "SFL" <address@hidden>
> À: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Envoyé: Samedi 28 Octobre 2017 18:40:12
> Objet: We received your message!
>
> Full name: John White 
> Email: address@hidden 
> Subject: ring 
> Message: I am using ring. 2017-10-20 19:01:41 UTC as a sip phone via
> diamondcard.us, on my Debian Stretch system. It works fine. BUT I can't use
> it as I would like as there is no documentation to speak of.
>
> I want to put a name AND phone number in the contacts list, but can only put
> one of the other. I don't see many of the functions referenced in the online
> documentation. I will contribute.
>
> If I could get ring working well as a sip phone I would probably try its
> other feature. If I could call a land line or cell phone using ring's non-sip
> functions, that would be great. Until Gates bought it, I used skype and could
> call land lines from it.
>
> Finally, I think ring is hampered badly because it uses too common a name.
> Perhaps calling it ringx some other unique name would help.
>
> As you can see, I am quite confused by ring but think it has great promise if
> more documentation were available.
>
> John White
> White Law Chartered
> 335 W 1st St.
> Reno, NV 89503
> 775-322-8000 
> : 

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