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> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maxim Sobolev > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Andriy Pylypenko > Subject: [Openpbx-dev] Joining the project > > Guys/Gals, > > Let me introduce myself. My name is Maxim Sobolev, I am > long-term follower of the open source/free software movement. > For me it all started around 1996, with involvement in > FreeBSD operating system, first as a contributor and later on > as a official member of the project with write access to the > code repository. > > In 2002 my focus has shifted to VoIP (SIP mostly), and > shortly after that I obtained write access to the SER, SEMS > and Vovida open source projects. Among other things I am the > author of the SER's nathelper module and RTP Proxy add-on for > the SER. Also, I have written my own SIP stack and B2BUA in > Python, which is now being used in several carrier-grade > products powering few hundreds VoIP providers all over the > globe. The stack and B2BUA is to be released under GPL > license really soon. > > We've been using the Asterisk in various projects during the > past 4 years, as a result have accumulated significant amount > of patches over the period. Unfortunately, merging back > patches into Asterisk was never been an easy task since > Digium wanted to keep IP rights for themselves and they were > pretty unresponsive to external contributions. > > That's why I think OpenPBX is a brilliant idea. There are > several big pieces of work that readily could be merged into > OpenPBX, which are currently kinda rotting with the > mainstream asterisk moving to 1.4 (i.e. > BRI support, codec negotiation support, some SIP protocol fixes etc). > > For example please see: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~fjoe/public_distfiles/asterisk-1.2. > 7.1-bristuff-0.3.0-PRE-1p.patch.gz > http://unofficial.portaone.com/~bamby/public/asterisk-1.2.12.1 > -codec-negotiation-20061009.diff.gz > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/asterisk/files/ > > In addition, we are currently working on powerful IVR/TTS > Python framework for the asterisk, which is also to be > released as GPL in the next three to six months. It is really > good for the purposes of rapid development of advanced IVR > scripts. It has been ported to the OpenPBX already and could > potentially become part of the distribution. > > If possible I would like to have two repository accounts for > myself (aka > sobomax) and for Andriy Pylypenko (aka bamby), who is the > author of the well-known codec negotiation patch for > asterisk. Potentially I could bring onboard few other fellow > developers working for various commercial entities involving > asterisk (i.e. fjoe author or BRI patch and gonzo author of > the Zaptel port to FreeBSD). All of us are interested in > having open and high-performance IVR/switching/gateway > platform not controlled by the single commercial entity. > > Please let me know what do you think. I think that the > co-operation will be beneficial for all parties. > > Thanks! > > Regards, > > Maxim > _______________________________________________ > Openpbx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev _______________________________________________ Openpbx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev
