[asterisk-biz] Developments?

Wed Feb 3 19:45:42 CST 2010

Dean -
    Actually, we just rolled out the Asterisk Exchange platform about  
a week ago.   (http://www.asteriskexchange.com/)  This is the start of  
the platform I think that was under discussion some time ago.  Now, it  
doesn't yet do all the things that are probably desirable in a  
"marketplace," but I would say that there are some obvious things that  
it is missing that would be clear next steps for such a platform if  
one was to take some guesses at what "v2.0" would look like.

    There are several separate models for getting listed on the  
Exchange, including paid and free options for commercial and free  
packages, respectively.  This is hopefully going to allow a starting  
point for creating a marketplace for anyone with an Asterisk-related  
product for which they ultimately charge money.  For completely free  
(as in "open source") packages, there is also the Asterisk Forge (http://forge.asterisk.org/ 
) which is a full-fledged repository and development toolkit.

   For questions on the Asterisk Exchange platform, I'd suggest  
contacting Pete Engler (pengler at digium.com) who is the manager for  
that project, or with me if you have specific community questions as  
to how we use the different tools for different types of software.

JT

On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Dean Collins wrote:

> John,
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> Is this still happening? Is there a possibility for someone else to  
> take this project over with digiums understanding that they wont  
> roll out a competing platform or block a competing platform  
> considering it doesn’t look like you are going to roll this out  
> anytime soon?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Inc
> dean at cognation.net
> +1-212-203-4357   New York
> +61-2-9016-5642   (Sydney in-dial).
> +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).
>
> From: John Todd [mailto:jtodd at digium.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:26 PM
> To: Dean Collins
> Cc: Steve Sokol
> Subject: RE: Developments?
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> Dean -
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>   Yes, we're actively moving forward with a plan to build a  
> marketplace, and we're very interested in having the community be a  
> part of (or the primary driver in) such a development effort.  I've  
> not yet navigated my way into knowing how to get a mailing list set  
> up, but that's on my list to do.  Maybe we'll just use external tools.
>
>
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>   I've not used Huddle - is there a benefit to this over Google Docs  
> and associated work tools?  I'm up for either one, but we've got a  
> foothold in some of the Google tools already here and that may be a  
> more widely recognized interface.
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>   I'm working on a draft agenda on what the goals are with such a  
> community project, but I'll admit the last week and a half has been  
> very busy discussing these items and getting the business  
> requirements sorted out (which I know are only a small portion of  
> the overall task, but is important from Digium's perspective.)
>
>
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>   Do you have a list of people who are interested in working on the  
> project?  I've got a few names from the community already - I agree  
> that we should get this working on a public forum as quicky as we  
> can to discuss specs.
>
>
>
> JT
>
> At 6:47 PM -0400 2008/5/21, Dean Collins wrote:
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>> John,
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>> Unless I missed it I didn't see a confirmation from you that this  
>> is your plan to roll forward from here and that I should now  
>> forward you the contact details in order to setup a workplace for  
>> this to move forward (can I suggest a www.Huddle.net shared  
>> workspace?)
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>> Please confirm so I can get back to the guys who put their hands up  
>> to be part of this project.
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>> Cheers,
>> Dean
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>> From: Dean Collins
>> Sent: Monday, 19 May 2008 10:26 AM
>> To: 'Steve Sokol'
>> Cc: John Todd
>> Subject: RE: Developments?
>>
>> Ok so based on this I should forward the interested 'community'  
>> peoples contact details to John and (of course adding my own name  
>> to it) and then wait for John to get back in touch with us with the  
>> details on;
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>> 1/ a mailing list
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>> 2/ a shared workplace environment - wiki or document depository etc
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>> 3/ initial draft agenda etc
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>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dean Collins
>> dean at cognation.net
>> Cognation Limited
>> +1-212-203-4357
>> +61-2-9016-4652 (Sydney indial)
>>
>> From: Steve Sokol [mailto:ssokol at digium.com]
>> Sent: Monday, 19 May 2008 10:23 AM
>> To: Dean Collins
>> Cc: John Todd
>> Subject: Re: Developments?
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>>
>>
>> We had a good meeting and Danny was very much in favor of Digium  
>> working with the community to provide a means of reselling and  
>> licensing software.  John will be heading up the community side of  
>> this effort and I will be working with our internal operations,  
>> accounting and IT groups to implement the solution.  John will be  
>> setting up a working group shortly to start building out the  
>> details and drafting a specification document.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -S
>>
>> =========================
>> Steve Sokol
>> Software Products
>> Digium, Inc.
>>
>> O) 256.428.6101
>> C) 816.806.8844
>> F) 816.817.0441
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>> ----- "Dean Collins" wrote:
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>> Hi guys, what happened with Danny?
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>> > Cheers,
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>> > Dean
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> -- 
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> John Todd              jtodd at digium.com
> Asterisk Open Source Community Director
>

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