[asterisk-dev] Recent additions to the Digium Asterisk development team

Matt Florell astmattf at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 07:09:01 MST 2006


I have no official affiliation with Digium, but their reason for slow
BRI, MFCR2 support in the past is that they cannot get those circuits
to test on in Alabama,USA and they had been reluctant to throw code
into the zaptel core that they cannot test themselves. This has
changed recently with the announcement that Digium is releasing a BRI
card soon(B410P) and hopefully they will see the huge potential of the
Central/South American market with MFCR2 support.

Personally speaking, the project I manage(astGUIclient) has seen a
burst of activity in South/Central america recently and I have been
asked more and more in the last few months about MFCR2 compatibility
of Asterisk.

I hope Digium will find a solid company in that region to partner with
and support MFCR2 circuits.

MATT---

On 8/17/06, Denis Galvão <denisgalvao at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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