October 28 Brian lazily top posts: I took a quick look at your site (http://www.websitemanagers.com.au/asterisk). One thing I noticed is there is no big red "Click Here to submit a [dialplan trick/agi/etc]!" button. I registered and found the 'Upload New Scripts' link under My Account.
Perhaps there is some way to make it more obvious/easy to upload a new file (for new users)... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Goryachev > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:03 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] - ACAN - the Asterisk Comprehensive > ArchiveNetwork (was RE: GPL thoughts) > > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > > People will want to pay for your expertise because you wrote (or at > > least contributed to) the base platform, or language, or what-have-you. > > The more one contributes, the more their credibility is established -- > > their services gain value. This holds true not only for individuals, but > > for companies as well. > > > > Rather than people trying to lock their "brilliance" away so only they > > can use it, I'd rather like to envision something such as the Perl folks > > have; ACAN, the Asterisk Comprehensive Archive Network (we need a better > > acronym, but I digress). > > > > Folks would contribute all kinds of interesting dialplan functions, > > which can tyhen be downloaded (and improved!) by the community. Some of > > them are junk; the crucible that is open-source will either weed them > > out, or fix them. The best in class will rise to the top, and become the > > standard way of solving a particular challenge. There will always be > > choice. > > I did try to setup something along those lines. A couple of times I > tried to encourage people to use the repository I setup, AFAIK, it has > never been used, not that I've really worried/worked on it since it was > never used... > > See http://www.websitemanagers.com.au/asterisk/ > > I have run/maintained www.deadcat.net for a long time (6 or more years I > think) which is basically the same sort of thing for Big Brother (cross > platform monitoring/alarming system). Many, many people who have asked > the usual questions "Which is better BB or xyz?", are always told that > the library of add-ons/patches/etc available on the deadcat website make > it the better choice by far. > > So, it would be nice to have people saying the same things when > comparing some cisco CM solution to asterisk, etc... ie, look at <blah> > because it has loads of AGI scripts to do almost anything you want, > dialplan samples, patches, etc... > > Of course, most patches belong on the bug tracker, but some don't (if > they will never be accepted into the cvs for example)... > > Anyway, all of this is just my own opinion, yours may vary. > > If people have comments regarding the website, or how it could be made > more useful (apart from actually having some content), please let me > know. > > Finally, just because you haven't authored something, doesn't stop you > from uploading it to the website (as long as you have the right to > re-distribute the work, which the GPL allows). > > Regards, > Adam > >-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
