[asterisk-dev] Asterisk SCF Steering Committee: Call For Participation

[Gavin Henry]

Hi,

What can companies help with if they join?

Thanks.

On 7/8/11, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> (Apologies in advance for the length of this message; please don't stop
> reading after the first couple of paragraphs <G>)
>
> A little over a year ago, when the Asterisk SCF project was just getting
> started, we invited interested community members to help us form a
> steering committee. The committee's purpose was to help shape the
> direction of Asterisk SCF development, in order to ensure that it would
> serve the needs of community members.
>
> The committee was formed and began having somewhat regular meetings (via
> conference call); the meetings are documented (and recordings posted) here:
>
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/TOP/Steering+Committee
>
> In the beginning, the committee's task was fairly easy to define: we at
> Digium had already decided on some basic pieces of technology, and some
> design criteria, but we needed help figuring out exactly how we should
> assemble these pieces. In other words, we knew how to make things that
> people wanted to use, but we needed people to tell us *what* to make.
>
> Some of us at Digium then spent time interviewing various people and
> companies, in order to determine what would be most useful to them in an
> 'Asterisk SCF 1.0' release. We combined the results of those interviews
> into a candidate feature list, and asked the committee to help us
> determine whether that was the *right* list of features to build first.
> The group was in agreement, so development began in earnest.
>
> Now it's about seven months later, development has been continuing at a
> frenetic pace... but the committee has become disengaged. It's been
> difficult to get a reasonable number of members to participate in the
> (now monthly) conference calls, and there have been occasions where no
> community members have participated at all. It's understandable to have
> some members occasionally unable to join; everyone has regular jobs,
> travel sometimes interferes, etc., but we'd hoped to have at least two
> or three of the six community members be able to join each call.
>
> In just a couple of months, we intend to be making the first beta
> releases of Asterisk SCF available, and when that happens, it will be
> quite important that we have the community's involvement to ensure:
>
> * that we continue heading down the right path
>
> * that we're addressing the right problems and feature requests that
> arise once the beta testing process has started
>
> * that we're providing the right documentation, examples and other
> assistance to get interested users able to actually use Asterisk SCF in
> their networks
>
> So, I'm posting this call to see if we can get things moving in the
> right direction again; if you are interested in helping to shape the
> future of Asterisk SCF development, please speak up! It's not necessary
> to commit multiple hours per week to this effort, but it's important
> that those who volunteer to be a member of the steering committee be
> able to stay engaged with the project, participate on the conference
> calls, and be able to spend at least an hour reviewing documentation and
> other details a few days before the conference call in order to
> facilitate discussion and decision-making.
>
> For this to be a true Steering Committee, those of us doing the bulk of
> the Asterisk SCF development are willing to commit to documenting our
> research, describing that to the committee and working to reach a
> consensus on how we should proceed... but only if the committee itself
> is willing to commit to being a full participant in the process. Without
> that level of commitment, development grinds to a halt, or decisions
> have to be made without community interaction; neither of those are what
> we would wish to be the case.
>
> So here's the call to action: join the committee, and help us make
> Asterisk SCF into the best framework for building communications
> applications that you can envision!
>
> --
> Kevin P. Fleming
> Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies
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