Maxim, Sounds great! Welcome home.
You will find the core of developers active on IRC in #openpbx on freenode. Right now many devs are in Eurpoe and Asia to give you an idea of the time they are on IRC. We are working towards a name change and a release. We have tried to focus on stability, performance, and sane code, but, as you know, we have added some features because they are needed to add value and differentiate us from Asterisk. -Nate > -----Original Message----- > From: Maxim Sobolev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:57 AM > 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
