asterisk users - Aug 2006 - Recent additions to the Digium Asterisk development team

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.

>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.
>  
>
Which makes me think, what is the real use of AEL. I have taken a look 
at it, and it makes asterisk's config file almost as unreadable as SER.

What exactly does AEL do that a well written AGI / FastAGI app doesn't?

I would think (but I'm surely wrong) that it would be better to do work 
on  having well defined APIs that allow us to script Asterisk (such as 
AGI and the Manager interface) rather than invent Yet Another Pseudo 
Programming Language - which is going to be an endless task... Don't you 
think?

That being said, just like the rest of the community, I'm very happy 
with Kevin's exciting announcement!

Cheers,
Jean-Michel.

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 Galv?o
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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Keep up the Excellent work - bravo Digium!

Rob Lith
Connection Telecom - South Africa

On 17/08/06, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@digium.com>
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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