Joining the project

Guys/Gals,

Let me introduce myself. My name is Maxim Sobolev, I am
long-term 
follower of the open source/free software movement. For me
it all 
started around 1996, with involvement in FreeBSD operating
system, first 
as a contributor and later on as a official member of the
project with 
write access to the code repository.

In 2002 my focus has shifted to VoIP (SIP mostly), and
shortly after 
that I obtained write access to the SER, SEMS and Vovida
open source 
projects. Among other things I am the author of the SER's
nathelper 
module and RTP Proxy add-on for the SER. Also, I have
written my own SIP 
stack and B2BUA in Python, which is now being used in
several 
carrier-grade products powering few hundreds VoIP providers
all over the 
globe. The stack and B2BUA is to be released under GPL
license really soon.

We've been using the Asterisk in various projects during the
past 4 
years, as a result have accumulated significant amount of
patches over 
the period. Unfortunately, merging back patches into
Asterisk was never 
been an easy task since Digium wanted to keep IP rights for
themselves 
and they were pretty unresponsive to external
contributions.

That's why I think OpenPBX is a brilliant idea. There are
several big 
pieces of work that readily could be merged into OpenPBX,
which are 
currently kinda rotting with the mainstream asterisk moving
to 1.4 (i.e. 
BRI support, codec negotiation support, some SIP protocol
fixes etc).

For example please see:

http://people.fr
eebsd.org/~fjoe/public_distfiles/asterisk-1.2.7.1-bristuff-0
.3.0-PRE-1p.patch.gz
http://unoffici
al.portaone.com/~bamby/public/asterisk-1.2.12.1-codec-negoti
ation-20061009.diff.gz
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/a
sterisk/files/

In addition, we are currently working on powerful IVR/TTS
Python 
framework for the asterisk, which is also to be released as
GPL in the 
next three to six months. It is really good for the purposes
of rapid 
development of advanced IVR scripts. It has been ported to
the OpenPBX 
already and could potentially become part of the
distribution.

If possible I would like to have two repository accounts for
myself (aka 
sobomax) and for Andriy Pylypenko (aka bamby), who is the
author of the 
well-known codec negotiation patch for asterisk. Potentially
I could 
bring onboard few other fellow developers working for
various 
commercial entities involving asterisk (i.e. fjoe author or
BRI patch 
and gonzo author of the Zaptel port to FreeBSD). All of us
are 
interested in having open and high-performance
IVR/switching/gateway 
platform not controlled by the single commercial entity.

Please let me know what do you think. I think that the
co-operation will 
be beneficial for all parties.

Thanks!

Regards,

Maxim
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