[guardian-dev] ostel experiences from Eastern Europe

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans!

I just set up a bunch of people in Central and Eastern Europe with ostel.  I
used Linphone on both Android and iOS. Overall, it went quite smoothly.  There
were just the three settings that needed to be changed (TLS, Outbound Proxy,
and ZRTP).  I think the biggest barrier to people was the language.  For
example, ostel.co does not seem to have Russian, Ukrainian or Belorusian
languages.

The Russian translation is complete, so it would be great to have it put up on
ostel.co:
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/ostel/

Based on this experience, I think ostel should recommend Linphone for Android
and iOS.  I've been using Linphone for a while now on Android and it seems to
work well.

In a related note, I saw that it is possible to provision Jitsi using a URL.
That would be awesome to have for ostel/linphone as well.  Then the user would
install Linphone on their device, sign up on https://ostel.co, then scan the
QR Code, and make a call!

If we managed to get linphone.org's SIP service setup matching OSTN standards,
and federating with OSTN, then we could have the easy one-stop service to tell
people to use.  We can say "use linphone to make secure calls".

.hc

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