[Asterisk-Users] - ACAN - the Asterisk Comprehensive Archive Network (was RE: GPL thoughts)

[Michael Bielicki]

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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:02:38 +1000, Adam Goryachev
<mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:37, Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
> > People will want to pay for your expertise because you wrote (or at
> > least contributed to) the base platform, or language, or what-have-you.
> > The more one contributes, the more their credibility is established --
> > their services gain value. This holds true not only for individuals, but
> > for companies as well.
> >
> > Rather than people trying to lock their "brilliance" away so only they
> > can use it, I'd rather like to envision something such as the Perl folks
> > have; ACAN, the Asterisk Comprehensive Archive Network (we need a better
> > acronym, but I digress).
> >
> > Folks would contribute all kinds of interesting dialplan functions,
> > which can tyhen be downloaded (and improved!) by the community. Some of
> > them are junk; the crucible that is open-source will either weed them
> > out, or fix them. The best in class will rise to the top, and become the
> > standard way of solving a particular challenge. There will always be
> > choice.
> 
> I did try to setup something along those lines. A couple of times I
> tried to encourage people to use the repository I setup, AFAIK, it has
> never been used, not that I've really worried/worked on it since it was
> never used...
> 
> See http://www.websitemanagers.com.au/asterisk/
> 
> I have run/maintained www.deadcat.net for a long time (6 or more years I
> think) which is basically the same sort of thing for Big Brother (cross
> platform monitoring/alarming system). Many, many people who have asked
> the usual questions "Which is better BB or xyz?", are always told that
> the library of add-ons/patches/etc available on the deadcat website make
> it the better choice by far.
> 
> So, it would be nice to have people saying the same things when
> comparing some cisco CM solution to asterisk, etc... ie, look at <blah>
> because it has loads of AGI scripts to do almost anything you want,
> dialplan samples, patches, etc...
> 
> Of course, most patches belong on the bug tracker, but some don't (if
> they will never be accepted into the cvs for example)...
> 
> Anyway, all of this is just my own opinion, yours may vary.
> 
> If people have comments regarding the website, or how it could be made
> more useful (apart from actually having some content), please let me
> know.
> 
> Finally, just because you haven't authored something, doesn't stop you
> from uploading it to the website (as long as you have the right to
> re-distribute the work, which the GPL allows).
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Michael Bielicki