Great initiative !!!!<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Alex Balashov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Greetings,<br><br>As a developer and consultant who spends considerable time on projects<br>involving the fusion of Asterisk and products derived from the SER<br>
ecosystem (OpenSER, Kamailio, OpenSIPS, the new SIP-Router), I have<br>found that there is a great volume of interest in this topic on the<br>mailing lists associated with all communities involved, but a<br>comparative lack of focus that results in duplicated effort and lack of<br>
specialised response.<br><br>This is mainly due, I think, to the fact that detailed Asterisk<br>experience - while common - is not a prerequisite for working with the<br>SER products, while for Asterisk people SER can often be a next step in<br>
scalability and VoIP service delivery platform enhancement that they are<br>just getting into. And so on. There's pollution in the respective<br>discursive spaces; a lot of Asterisk people posting to the SER lists<br>
ask a lot of Asterisk-specific questions in addition to any they may<br>have about SER which can be construed as potentially off-topic by some<br>members, and the opposite is true on the Asterisk lists when detailed,<br>involved discussion about SER occurs.<br>
<br>We need to capture that discussion that exists at the overlap and is<br>specifically concerned with making these two systems work together,<br>requiring somewhat detailed and esoteric understanding of both and a<br>community of user support and knowledge that focuses on both of these<br>
conceptual and product universes.<br><br>Toward that end, I am hosting a new mailing list with this succinct<br>purpose, if slightly unwieldy name, and encourage all interested to<br>join. It is called 'SER-Asterisk-Interwork' and can be accessed for<br>
subscription here:<br><br><a href="http://lists.evaristesys.com/mailman/listinfo/ser-asterisk-interwork" target="_blank">http://lists.evaristesys.com/mailman/listinfo/ser-asterisk-interwork</a><br><br>The archives are available here:<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.evaristesys.com/pipermail/ser-asterisk-interwork/" target="_blank">http://lists.evaristesys.com/pipermail/ser-asterisk-interwork/</a><br><br>You can post to the list at:<br><br><a href="mailto:ser-asterisk-interwork@lists.evaristesys.com">ser-asterisk-interwork@lists.evaristesys.com</a><br>
<br>It's the same GNU Mailman stuff you are already used to.<br><br>While it could be argued that this cross-product discussion is valuable<br>to retain in both communities, I think there is considerable benefit to<br>
creating a specialised mailing list that focuses specifically on this<br>integration path and the unique interoperation and configuration issues<br>it creates. I think it would be good to get some of this discussion off<br>
of the SER and Asterisk-specific mailing lists where it has somewhat<br>marginal relevance at times and refocus it. If you agree and are<br>interested in this topic, you are invited to join the list.<br><br>One last note: The SER/OpenSER community has been in a state of flux<br>
recently, with OpenSER undergoing a name change to Kamailio and<br>subsequently seeing a fork. The incumbent Kamailio project is now<br>in the process of merging with the original SER project. The choice of<br>nomenclature for list is not meant to imply an endorsement of or<br>
affinity for the IPTel SER project per se. It is just that right now it<br>serves the aim of terseness to use a common denominator, to refer to<br>this family of projects as the "SER ecosystem." Whether you are a SER,<br>
OpenSER, Kamailio, or OpenSIPS user, you are part of that "SER<br>ecosystem." That is why the list is named what it is.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>-- Alex<br><br>--<br>Alex Balashov<br>Evariste Systems<br>Web : <a href="http://www.evaristesys.com/" target="_blank">http://www.evaristesys.com/</a><br>
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