contributors by 2011. Sandras wanted to create a Netmeeting clone for Linux as his graduating project at UCLouvain. Ekiga was referred to as GnomeMeeting until 2004 when a name change was thought necessary by the developers. Concerns were cited that the original name was associated with a dead Microsoft product called NetMeeting, and not always recognized as VoIP software. It was also proposed that some people assumed they needed to run GNOME to run GnomeMeeting, which was no longer the case. Eventually on January 18, 2006 the name Ekiga was chosen based on an old way of communicating between villages in Cameroon. Around that the time the direction of the software project was changed and it turned into a SIP client. The following shows major version releases: March 2004 – Version 1.0 under the name GnomeMeeting March 2006 – Version 2.0 was released under name Ekiga, it was bundled with GNOME 2.14 April 2007 – Version 2.0.9 was the first version to include support for Microsoft Windows September 2008 – Version 3.0.0 March 2009 - First release of the 3.2.x series. Added support for G.722 audio as well as unified the support for H.263 and H.263. November 2012 - Ekiga 4.0.0, "The Victory Release", is a major release with many major improvements. February 2013 - Ekiga 4.0.1, "The Victory Release", this version has many improvements. 2015; - Ekiga 5.0, new Version with GTK+ 3 and new codecs announced. See also Comparison of VoIP software Blink QuteCom Jitsi List of free and open-source software packages Twinkle SFLphone Tox References External links VoIP software Free VoIP software Teleconferencing Groupware Social networking services Online chat Free instant messaging clients GNOME Applications Videotelephony 2000 software Videoconferencing software that uses GTK Instant messaging clients that use GTK Voice over IP clients that use GTK Université catholique de Louvain