[asterisk-users] Re: [asterisk-dev] Recent additions to the Digium Asterisk development team

[Denis Galvão - iSolve]

Very good news.

Really good to know about the success of companies(like Digium) and  
developers(like all mentioned by Kevin) that are working with and for  
the Asterisk community.

I just have one thing to complain:

When will Digium invite a developer to put the MFCR2 stack(channel)  
on Asterisk official core?

Keep in mind that South American/Asian markets is growing UP pretty  
faster on VoIP, and of course Asterisk is one of the tools that have  
been used to get this grow. MFCR2 is almost on 90% of all telephony  
carriers in Brazil.

I'm the founder of AsteriskBrasil.org(born on 2004), we have 5000  
users and 2000 members on the email discussion list/IRC. All of them  
are using MFCR2, implemented by Steve Underwood that deserves all of  
AsteriskBrasil.org community's respect.

The VERY GOOD work done by Steve on the chan_unicall, spandsp and  
libmfcr2 turn on the possibility to work with Asterisk in Brazil, but  
is a pain to apply a patch every time a new Asterisk version is  
announced, is pain to maintain two software trees.

AsteriskBrasil.org has its own developers that is doing a very good  
work on translating, coding and recoding things to work in Brazil 
(some of limfr2 stuff, voicemail, grammar, etc -I'll prepare a full  
list-) that should help the Asterisk dev team to put some of our  
needs on the core.

I'll not write more lines here, I just wanna know:
"Is Digium interested to keep/grow business in South America/Asia?"

Thanks for all of you specially for Steve(coppice).

Denis Galvão
AsteriskBrasil.org



On 16 de ago de 2006, at 19:12, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Some of you may have noticed some new people with '@digium.com'  
> email addresses lately... yes, we have been hiring to expand our  
> Asterisk development team and I should have made an official  
> announcement some time ago :-)
>
> Joshua Colp joined our development team a few months ago. Josh  
> (file on IRC/Mantis) has been working on Asterisk development for  
> quite some time and had contributed many features and bug fixes as  
> a volunteer community member, along with being very active on the  
> IRC channels and issue tracker.
>
> Steve Murphy joined our development team at the beginning of June.  
> Steve (murf on IRC/Mantis) had rewritten Asterisk's expression  
> parser and the AEL language parser as a volunteer community member,  
> along with various other bug fixes and improvements.
>
> Jason Parker joined our development team at the beginning of this  
> week. Jason (qwell on IRC/Mantis) has been maintaining the  
> chan_skinny driver for Cisco SCCP phones as well acting as a bug  
> marshal and fixing various bugs in Asterisk for the past year or more.
>
> Russell Bryant has been a Digium part-time employee and an active  
> Asterisk maintainer since before I got involved with Asterisk :-)  
> His contributions are innumerable, and he has worked far more than  
> the 'ten to twenty hours per week' he claims to have available  
> outside of his school work! Russell (russellb on IRC/Mantis) will  
> be joining us full time in Huntsville after the winter semester is  
> complete, when he expects to graduate.
>
> Please join me in welcoming all these new members of our  
> development team; they are helping to make Asterisk (and our other  
> software products) better every day and will enable us to  
> accelerate our products into the future.
>
> -- 
> Kevin P. Fleming
> Senior Software Engineer
> Digium, Inc.
>
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