Zoa, Private ping about SF app exchange.
Are you interested in coming on to the call to discuss with other potential developers how this registration works and how you can bind a license to a particular server? I'll also reach out to Gerd at Lumenvox to see if he can come on to discuss as well. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoa > Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:39 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] [VOIP-Users-Conference] Potential subject for Friday - > Does the Asterisk community need a 3rd party commercial software ecosystem? > > > You need to talk about this with digium sales, i suggest you give Jim > Webster a call. > Without going into details, other license agreements are possible. > (Several companies including mine can distribute software as a module > similar to how g729 is being sold - we do that for our t.30/t.38 fax > modules, lumenvox does it for voice recognition,... ). > > OT, where can i find the best info on this salesforce API ? Do you see > any possibilities to integrate our zoiper softphone with salesforce ? > (contact me off list for that) > > Cheers, > > Zoa > > Dean Collins wrote: > > Hi BJ, > > Further explanation about the 3rd party ecosystem question this morning > > > > Cory Andrews from VoIP supply was on the Voip-Users conference call last > > week. > > > > I asked the question - how much of VoIP Supply revenue is product versus > > applications - he said we don't sell any services such as ITSP hosted > > Asterisk so I replied that wasn't what I was thinking of and gave the > > example of Snap Dialer which is a low cost (I think I paid $20 for it) > > application which allows me to dial names from outlook. > > > > I then talked about some of the consulting I did for Salesforce.com and > > how they have built an entire ecosystem of third party applications all > > built by other people but utilizing the documented API's and application > > security etc. > > > > My comments were that although Asterisk should always remain a free open > > source application that developers need to eat and pay rent as well. > > > > If there was some common marketplace that developers could sell small - > > low cost third party applications to the Asterisk community that Digium > > had some type of overview/management control over who listed etc that > > this would deliver a stream of revenue that would encourage further > > application development. > > > > The question I then posed to the group was if anyone knew how Digium > > managed the sale and licensing of the G729 codes. > > > > And if this was an open published standard that it could be used as the > > basis for the Asterisk ecosystem license model. > > > > Now I know it's not perfect and can be hacked but everything can be > > hacked. The idea is to build apps cheap enough that it's not worth the > > effort of hacking. > > > > I know there were discussions in Mexuar about how we could sell (read > > license) a single channel of the Mexuar Corraleta application rather > > than the entire server license for $2000. > > > > Earlier this week I sent an original email to Digium and told Kevin was > > responsible for the G729 licenses so I was hoping that this Friday we > > could get Kevin and possibly the developers of Snap Dialer to talk about > > their current license models and how they implemented payment systems > > and also maybe the developer of FOP to discuss if this was available to > > him and he was able to sell a 100 licenses or something like that a > > month would this provide an income stream to support further development > > etc. > > > > Does this make sense? > > Does anyone have any comments or would you like to be involved with > > Fridays call? > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Dean Collins > > Cognation Pty Ltd > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > +1-212-203-4357 Ph > > +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Dean Collins > >> Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 7:53 AM > >> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > >> Cc: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'; Ast-biz > >> > > (asterisk- > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> Subject: RE: [VOIP-Users-Conference] Subject or Guest for Friday? > >> > >> We can talk about the third party application idea Cory and I > >> > > discussed last week - > > > >> sorry still haven't posted to the list yet as I've had a client in > >> > > town for the last few day > > > >> but should be able to do this today. > >> If Fop, Snap Dialer, Mexuar and or any other third party developer who > >> > > has written > > > >> commercial asterisk applications (preferably small low value eg $20 > >> > > etc) is interested > > > >> in jumping on a call with me this Friday I can put together a series > >> > > of questions to run > > > >> the call with. > >> Maybe we can get Kevin from Digium to explain on the call how the g729 > >> > > license > > > >> registration process works and turn the call into a working > >> > > discussion. > > > >> Regards, > >> > >> Dean Collins > >> Cognation Pty Ltd > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> +1-212-203-4357 Ph > >> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > >> > >> > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:VOIP-Users- > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of randulo > >>> Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 7:27 AM > >>> To: VOIP Users Conference > >>> Subject: [VOIP-Users-Conference] Subject or Guest for Friday? > >>> > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Does anyone have a guest or subject up their sleeve for this week? I > >>> have neither and I'm getting ready to move house so I don't have a > >>> > > lot > > > >>> of time to pursue. Any chance of getting a phone mfr or service > >>> provider on? Anyone out there want to take a crack at this? Present > >>> your product or service or open source contributions. > >>> > >>> Incidentally, TringMe apparently has an API available and are making > >>> it very easy to build AIR and Flash (or Flex) apps. This sounds very > >>> interesting for creating branded clients of various kinds. If you're > >>> > > a > > > >>> programmer in that world, I'd check it out. AIR looks to me like it > >>> has legs because of its cross-platform nature. I don't know how it > >>> works with linux or FreeBSD if at all. Does anyone here know? > >>> > >>> If no ideas are forthcoming, we can talk about my personal (VoIP) > >>> issues: we're moving and will have two offices, as now. The > >>> > > difference > > > >>> is, we can not leave the power on at the old office, so we'll be > >>> > > using > > > >>> a combination of hosted pbx and asterisk, probably with the AA50 at > >>> our new home. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions on any of this :) > >>> > >>> /r > >>> > >>> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > >>> Your participation in the conference is always appreciated! 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