I found a really cool story here.

Turns out that the Fedora Project is rolling out a new system called “Fedora Talk” that allows contributors to sign in using standard VoIP hardware and software to talk to other Fedora contributors.  I think this is a really cool idea and a great application of VoIP technologies.  While I don’t mind exchanging e-mails or using forums and wikis, sometimes it is great to just be able to talk things over when trying to collaborate on programming projects.

If this little experiment is a success, maybe we will see systems like these in other open source projects.  I could also see systems like these becoming a staple for agile development.  While many would argue that people can just use Skype, opening up the floor to any standard VoIP software and hardware makes the service that much easier to use and therefore encourages even better communication.

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