[Asterisk-bsd] so here is my question for the masses

[Oliver Schneider]

Hello Richard and others...


Also schrieb Frank Griffith am Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:37:53AM -0800:
> 
> 
> Aristedes Maniatis <ari at ish.com.au> wrote:  
> On 03/02/2008, at 9:42 AM, Richard Neese wrote:
> 
>>> Do you all think that my daemonswitch project is worth the time. 
>>> will it get
>>> used or is it just a waste of time and effort ?
>>>
>>> I need input. I dont hear any feed back of anyone testing it. I need 
>>> to
>>> know ...

I guess the typical daemonswitch user is _NOT_ on this mailinglist.
That's the main point, you must announce it on the VoIP *sigh* browser
based boards. There should be much more people, who are looking for
all-in-cd with Asterisk. You should use an own automatic install cd, I
think I will supply one soon, as it is almost the same procedure as for
an network installation (where I need it).

I think where is also a system command possiple (wget and install.sh)

> Open source projects are hard work. They often take many years of 
> effort to achieve critical momentum and only then if the project 
> actually solves a real need. Your project may well solve a problem for 
> some people, but if I can suggest:
> 
> * there is no obvious place to download anything from your site
> * many of the links don't go anywhere
> * you explain what it isn't (bloated Linux distribution) but don't 
> explain what it is
> * you don't give people any reason to download it (is it easier than 
> "portinstall asterisk"?, what do you package that is really nice and 
> of benefit to people?)
> * Most people who want to download an integrated OS/Asterisk package 
> would not be Unix gurus and therefore want something widely supported: 
> why would they not choose Linux?
> 
> If you think this solves a problem for people, then keep at it. 
> Eventually it will be noticed and used. But be very clear about what 
> problem it solves. Finally, don't expect any help: open source rarely 
> works like that. If you get some, then great. But your project needs 
> to be viable without it. Look at the millions of abandoned projects on 
> sourceforge: some were probably quite good. If it solves a project 
> *for you* then keep at it.
> 
> Finally, you appear to often want feedback or kudos from this list. I 
> don't know what you are working on to get that feedback; I mean you 
> might have done a range of terrific things for Asterisk, but I don't 
> think many people here know what they are, or why they should be 
> interested in your knee injury. I mean, we all hope you get better, 
> but perhaps you could be more specific about the implications for the 
> FreeBSD Asterisk community with what you are working on.
>    
>> Ari has some valid points here. I too faced these kinds of issues 
>> when I developed software...and I guess that might be why I no longer 
>> develop software. I could spend 100 hours on something only to find 
>> the users totally indifferent to the new enhancements or worse, 
>> asking for more changes and critizing my work to the bosses.
>>    
>> Still, we should all remember that lots of people told the Wright 
>> Brothers they would never succeed in their line of work either.
>>    
>> As for my feedback, Asterisk is a very powerful and cool piece of 
>> software. I've tried to sell the idea to my co-workers but they are 
>> all too busy earning a living to want to switch from the present 
>> phone system. Even if I could squeeze the $1,000 or so to build a 
>> server with a Digium card, we'd still have to buy new IP phones for 
>> everyone and they just don't see the benefit in that. It brings to 
>> mind a few years back when at their suggestion, I built us a HylaFax 
>> server only to find that each day everyone was still printing pieces 
>> of paper and manually faxing on the old fax machine.
>>    
>> You can lead a horse to the water...but if he's not thirsty he won't drink.

Finally, I am sorry I must say it again, in Western Europe you must have
ISDN support in your system. Do you know where Matthias project of an
FreeBSD install cd incl i4b is?

I wish some people would quote better...

Oliver

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