"The Open Source Telephony Advancement Group - is committed to the support of 
open source telephony projects of all kinds. Voice and data communications are 
critical for people in all walks of life and in all locations around the world. 
OSTAG seeks to improve the quality and affordability of communications for 
persons everywhere. To that end we support the continued work on many open 
source telecommunications projects that meet the needs of people in both 
developed and developing locations."

The core FreeSWITCH team (Brian, Mike and Tony) spearheaded the group and the 
core FreeSWITCH team doesn't sit on the board but Michael Collins and Raymond 
Chandler along with My Sister Melanie West-Clarke are the board members.  My 
sister has extensive experience in running an Non-Profit organization and is 
now a stay at home mom and wanted to have something to do and this was a 
perfect fit for her skill set.  Michael and Raymond know open source voice 
really well so they were a great choice to sit on the board to help guide it on 
the right path. I'm sure the board will tap into the community to accept input 
on direction and projects to help support.  Its going to run similar to the 
Apache Foundation.

I'm just a huge cheer leader now.... I can't wait to see what this organization 
can do for the world.  Can you imagine being able to fund a truly open source 
PRI and SS7 stacks and how that would level the playing field? 

/b

On Jun 3, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Jan Berger wrote:

> Brian,
>  
> What exactly is the purpose with OSTAG?
>  
> Also – is this a FS activity, or a joint activity supported by Asterisk, Yate 
> etc?
>  
> Jan

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