Very good news.
Really good to know about the success of companies(like Digium) and
developers(like all mentioned by Kevin) that are working with and for
the Asterisk community.
I just have one thing to complain:
When will Digium invite a developer to put the MFCR2 stack(channel)
on Asterisk official core?
Keep in mind that South American/Asian markets is growing UP pretty
faster on VoIP, and of course Asterisk is one of the tools that have
been used to get this grow. MFCR2 is almost on 90% of all telephony
carriers in Brazil.
I'm the founder of AsteriskBrasil.org(born on 2004), we have 5000
users and 2000 members on the email discussion list/IRC. All of them
are using MFCR2, implemented by Steve Underwood that deserves all of
AsteriskBrasil.org community's respect.
The VERY GOOD work done by Steve on the chan_unicall, spandsp and
libmfcr2 turn on the possibility to work with Asterisk in Brazil, but
is a pain to apply a patch every time a new Asterisk version is
announced, is pain to maintain two software trees.
AsteriskBrasil.org has its own developers that is doing a very good
work on translating, coding and recoding things to work in Brazil
(some of limfr2 stuff, voicemail, grammar, etc -I'll prepare a full
list-) that should help the Asterisk dev team to put some of our
needs on the core.
I'll not write more lines here, I just wanna know:
"Is Digium interested to keep/grow business in South America/Asia?"
Thanks for all of you specially for Steve(coppice).
Denis Galvão
AsteriskBrasil.org
On 16 de ago de 2006, at 19:12, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
Some of you may have noticed some new people with '@digium.com'
email addresses lately... yes, we have been hiring to expand our
Asterisk development team and I should have made an official
announcement some time ago :-)
Joshua Colp joined our development team a few months ago. Josh
(file on IRC/Mantis) has been working on Asterisk development for
quite some time and had contributed many features and bug fixes as
a volunteer community member, along with being very active on the
IRC channels and issue tracker.
Steve Murphy joined our development team at the beginning of June.
Steve (murf on IRC/Mantis) had rewritten Asterisk's expression
parser and the AEL language parser as a volunteer community member,
along with various other bug fixes and improvements.
Jason Parker joined our development team at the beginning of this
week. Jason (qwell on IRC/Mantis) has been maintaining the
chan_skinny driver for Cisco SCCP phones as well acting as a bug
marshal and fixing various bugs in Asterisk for the past year or more.
Russell Bryant has been a Digium part-time employee and an active
Asterisk maintainer since before I got involved with Asterisk :-)
His contributions are innumerable, and he has worked far more than
the 'ten to twenty hours per week' he claims to have available
outside of his school work! Russell (russellb on IRC/Mantis) will
be joining us full time in Huntsville after the winter semester is
complete, when he expects to graduate.
Please join me in welcoming all these new members of our
development team; they are helping to make Asterisk (and our other
software products) better every day and will enable us to
accelerate our products into the future.
--
Kevin P. Fleming
Senior Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.
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