Jekyll2022-05-30T17:19:51+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/feed.xmlOUR VISION: BUILD & SUPPORT A VIBRANT COMMUNITY USING AND ENHANCING THE WORLD'S BEST OPEN SOURCE AND OPEN STANDARD TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES. 2018-05-02T12:00:00+00:002018-05-02T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/foundation/member/non-profit/2018/05/02/member-qunifi<p>Today, <strong>Qunifi Limited</strong> from the UK has joined as a <em>Silver Member</em> and is represented by Director, Richard Carver.</p> <p>The OTF is very pleased to welcome Qunifi Limited as a new Silver Member. Qunifi Limited’s membership is a significant milestone for the OTF as they are the 4th member to join who was not part of the original OTF founding members. We’re growing!!</p> <p>The Open Telecom Foundation registered as a non-profit in June 2017, new members are welcome to <a href="/new_member_join.html">join as members</a> after first reading and agreeing to our foundation <a href="/bylaws.html">By-Laws</a>.</p> <p>As a <em>Silver Member</em>, Qunifi Limited is happy to contribute its annual OTF membership fee, paid in monthly installments.</p>

Today, Qunifi Limited from the UK has joined as a Silver Member and is represented by Director, Richard Carver. The OTF is very pleased to welcome Qunifi Limited as a new Silver Member. Qunifi Limited’s membership is a significant milestone for the OTF as they are the 4th member to join who was not part of the original OTF founding members. We’re growing!!

2018-04-24T12:00:00+00:002018-04-24T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/foundation/grant/non-profit/2018/04/24/development-grant<p>The OTF Board is happy to announce the creation of the new <strong>OTF Development Grant</strong> and a new Development Grant Comittee.</p> <p>The OTF is happy to accept applications for the <strong>OTF Development Grant</strong> from OTF members. OTF members can sponsor external parties for the <strong>OTF Development Grant</strong> is they agree to be thr primary manager and administrator of the <strong>OTF Development Grant</strong>.</p> <p><strong>OTF Development Grant</strong> Amounts:</p> <ul> <li>For first time applicants, the grant is $1000 USD.</li> <li>For returning applications, the grant is $500 USD.</li> <li>An applicant may apply a maximum of 4 times per year (up to $2500 USD per year)</li> </ul> <p>For details please on how to apply and review our <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/132TBP37-ETF5Hh5ck1rvRn1jkwZMVGpQZB9fnIjX2AQ/edit"><strong>OTF Development Grant</strong> details (Google Doc)</a></p> <p>Each OTF member contributes a membership fee, paid in monthly instalments. These funds are what make the OTF Development Grant possible.</p> <p>The Open Telecom Foundation registered as a non-profit in June 2017, new members are welcome to <a href="/new_member_join.html">join as members</a> after first reading and agreeing to our foundation <a href="/bylaws.html">By-Laws</a>.</p>

The OTF Board is happy to announce the creation of the new OTF Development Grant and a new Development Grant Comittee.

2018-04-16T12:00:00+00:002018-04-16T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/meeting/2018/04/16/otf_annual<p>The OTF will be hosting the first OTF Annual conference on May 3rd 2018 from 9:00 AM - 04:30 PM PDT at <a href="https://liquidspace.com/us/ca/san-diego/downtown-works/meeting-room-1">Downtown Works</a> in San Diego. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/otf-annual-tickets-44645507916">You can purchase zero cost tickets at this link</a>. The conference may also be attended by video conference. You must order a free ticket to receive an invite to the online conference.</p> <p>Draft Presentation Schedule:</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Time Slot (PDT)</th> <th>Title</th> <th>Presenter</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>9:00</td> <td>Welcome</td> <td>Cameron Beattie (Voyager)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9:10</td> <td>The OTF: A year in review</td> <td>Graham Nelson-Zutter (CloudPBX)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9:30</td> <td>Made in Britain. Open for everybody</td> <td>Mikhail Rodionov</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10:00</td> <td>BGP/BFD for highly available voice peering</td> <td>Remco van Vugt (Raffel)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10:45</td> <td>Experiences with CouchDB for Kazoo</td> <td>Daniel Finke (Voxter)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>11:15</td> <td>To Kazoo or not to Kazoo - the question is the Billing</td> <td>Kirill Sysoev (OnNet)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>11:45</td> <td>Running a Kazoo load test using EC2</td> <td>Cameron Beattie (Voyager)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>13:30</td> <td>Regurgitating Kazoo events using EDR and Spewer</td> <td>Max Lay (Voyager)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>14:00</td> <td>Kazoo gaps and how to fill them</td> <td>Group discussion</td> </tr> <tr> <td>14:45</td> <td>Building a responsive, cross-platform messaging and call control app</td> <td>Tate Robertson (Voyager)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>15:15</td> <td>OTF roadmap</td> <td>Group discussion</td> </tr> <tr> <td>15:45</td> <td>SIP log analysis and integration with Kazoo using Homer</td> <td>Cameron Beattie (Voyager)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>16:15</td> <td>Closing</td> <td>Cameron Beattie (Voyager)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>16:30</td> <td>Close</td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Sponsored by: <img src="/assets/images/Voyager-Logo-Large-PNG.png" style="width:100%;height:auto;" /></p>

The OTF will be hosting the first OTF Annual conference on May 3rd 2018 from 9:00 AM - 04:30 PM PDT at Downtown Works in San Diego. You can purchase zero cost tickets at this link. The conference may also be attended by video conference. You must order a free ticket to receive an invite to the online conference.

2018-03-14T12:00:00+00:002018-03-14T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/foundation/member/non-profit/2018/03/14/member-telux<p>Today, <strong>Telux Limited</strong> from the UK has joined as a <em>Silver Member</em> and is represented by their Managing Director, Murray Leach.</p> <p>The OTF is very pleased to welcome Telux Limited as a new Silver Member. Telux Limited’s membership is a significant milestone for the OTF as they are the 3rd member to join who was not part of the original OTF founder. We’re growing!!</p> <p>The Open Telecom Foundation registered as a non-profit in June 2017, new members are welcome to <a href="/new_member_join.html">join as members</a> after first reading and agreeing to our foundation <a href="/bylaws.html">By-Laws</a>.</p> <p>As a <em>Silver Member</em>, Telux Limited is happy to contribute its annual OTF membership fee, paid in monthly installments.</p>

Today, Telux Limited from the UK has joined as a Silver Member and is represented by their Managing Director, Murray Leach.

2017-12-14T12:00:00+00:002017-12-14T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/foundation/member/non-profit/2017/12/14/member-zella<p>Today, <strong>Zella Technologies</strong> from teh USA has joined as a <em>Silver Member</em> and is represented by their CEO Anthony Manzella.</p> <p>The OTF is very pleased to welcome Zella Technologies as a new Silver Member. Zella Technologies’s membership is a significant milestone for the OTF as they are the 2nd member to join who was not part of the original OTF founder. We’re growing!</p> <p>The Open Telecom Foundation registered as a non-profit in June 2017, new members are welcome to <a href="/new_member_join.html">join as members</a> after first reading and agreeing to our foundation <a href="/bylaws.html">By-Laws</a>.</p> <p>As a <em>Silver Member</em>, Zella Technologies is happy to contribute its annual OTF membership fee, paid in monthly instalments.</p>

Today, Zella Technologies from teh USA has joined as a Silver Member and is represented by their CEO Anthony Manzella.

2017-11-18T12:00:00+00:002017-11-18T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/foundation/member/non-profit/2017/11/18/member-telephonic<p>Today, <strong>Telephonic Communications Inc.</strong> from Canada has joined as a <em>Silver Member</em> and is represented by their COO Jason Baumer.</p> <p>The OTF is very pleased to welcome Telephonic as a new Silver Member. Telephonic’s membership is a significant milestone for the OTF as they are the 1st member to join who was not part of the original OTF founder. We’re growing!</p> <p>The Open Telecom Foundation registered as a non-profit in June 2017, new members are welcome to <a href="/new_member_join.html">join as members</a> after first reading and agreeing to our foundation <a href="/bylaws.html">By-Laws</a>.</p> <p>As a <em>Silver Member</em>, Telephonic Communications Inc.is happy to contribute its annual OTF membership fee, paid in monthly instalments.</p>

Today, Telephonic Communications Inc. from Canada has joined as a Silver Member and is represented by their COO Jason Baumer.

2017-08-31T12:00:00+00:002017-08-31T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/meeting/2017/08/31/upstream_contributions<p>In a meeting of the OTF board on August 31st, 2017, the directors agreed unanimously that all open source projects that the OTF participates in will contribute source code back to the upstream open source project.</p> <p>In addition to the Open Telecom Foundation’s commitment to supporting open source software agree that, in all cases, when the Open Telecom Foundation makes modifications to open source code of an open source software project, the enhancements and modifications that have made to the project’s open source code will be submitted by the Open Telecom Foundation to upstream original author, where applicable, for the greater benefit of the open source project used and the community which relies on the project of interest (herein “Upstream Pull Request”).</p> <p>The Open Telecom Foundation will make these Upstream Pull Requests in a best-efforts capacity, acknowledging that it is ultimately the decision of the upstream project and its maintainers to accept the suggested source code modifications made by the Open Telecom Foundation in individual Upstream Pull Requests.</p>

In a meeting of the OTF board on August 31st, 2017, the directors agreed unanimously that all open source projects that the OTF participates in will contribute source code back to the upstream open source project.

2017-08-10T12:00:00+00:002017-08-10T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/pull-requests/kazoo/contributions/2017/08/10/kazoo-edr-event-data-records<p>Founding member and volunber director Noal Mehl has submitted an <em>Open Telecom Foundation endorsed</em> contribution to the Kazoo open source project that would greatly enhance Kazoo’s ability to provide output of new realtime events. <strong>EDR (Event Data Records)</strong> would allow for a much more flexible and detailed method for Kazoo to provide output of new types of realtime events.</p> <p>Over the last few weeks a number of Open Telecom Members have been involved in expanding Kazoo EDR, which started over a year ago as a contracted project by OTF member Voxter. Leading these efforts to revive and revitalize Kazoo EDR is <a href="https://github.com/kalda341">Max Lay</a> of OTF founding member Conversant. <a href="https://github.com/kalda341">Max Lay</a> has provided updated to the EDR code and is preparing for a pull release (PR) contribution to the upstream project repo.</p> <blockquote> <p>“As a developer/integrator/operator, I want EDR to be extended and mainlined to allow for flexible eventing consuming and publishing. The overall goal is a flexible way to capture rich event information from existing and new kazoo apps (both kz_apps and ecallmgr). We are hoping to to extend the existing EDR application (and ACDC initially) to address this.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Noal Mehl</strong> <br /> Director, Open Telecom Foundation</p> <blockquote> <p>“It’s great to see renewed interest in adding a new flexible event engine to Kazoo. EDR looks to be a good compliment to Blackhole and can also lead to other realtime eventing output systems that developers can find all sorts of uses for. Our initial use case for EDR would be to add realtime events to ACDc via Blackhole. Of course, there are so many other parts of Kazoo that could benefit. Beyond this more obvious example, it would be excellent to have inbound calls from the PSTN fire events as they pass through individual steps Callflows. When combined with Elastic search, this kind of output would provide for excellent debugging.”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="/who/#who_directors_graham">Graham Nelson-Zutter</a></strong> <br /> Director, Open Telecom Foundation</p> <blockquote> <p>“Third party integrations with kazoo can also benefit. This eventing layer would help to generate evens from a logical/business perspective (e.g. what is happening) instead of a technical perspective. You can have events like ‘You receive a call, the call has the following A-number, the following B-number and is transferred by C-extension’. This sort of events are currently hard to filter out from the data and are much needed for third party integrations like CRM. This very example is why I made the channel_bridge webhook back then. This is just an example, there are many more cases like this, but IMO an illustration of why this a such a good overall addition to the platform!”</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="/who/#who_directors_remco">Remco van Vugt</a></strong> <br /> Director, Open Telecom Foundation</p> <p>Please be part of the conversation! We’d love to hear your ideal on how to improve Kazoo EDR:</p> <p><strong>2600Hz Kazoo Project Jira Issue Tracker (Registration Required)</strong> <br /> <a href="https://2600hz.atlassian.net/browse/KAZOO-5635">https://2600hz.atlassian.net/browse/KAZOO-5635</a></p> <p><strong>2600Hz Kazoo Project Community Forum (Registration Required)</strong> <br /> <a href="https://forums.2600hz.com/forums/topic/9084-edr-architectural-discussion/">https://forums.2600hz.com/forums/topic/9084-edr-architectural-discussion/</a></p>

Founding member and volunber director Noal Mehl has submitted an Open Telecom Foundation endorsed contribution to the Kazoo open source project that would greatly enhance Kazoo’s ability to provide output of new realtime events. EDR (Event Data Records) would allow for a much more flexible and detailed method for Kazoo to provide output of new types of realtime events.

2017-08-09T12:00:00+00:002017-08-09T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/conferences/cluecon/2017/08/09/cluecon2017<p>Founding Open Telecom Foundation members Voxter and Reper.io are on-site in Chicago for meetings and presentations in conjunction with <a href="https://www.cluecon.com">ClueCon</a> 2017.</p> <p>There a number of very compelling presentations at ClueCon this year. One presentation of particular interest was presented by Telnyx, explaining their highly scalable, global carrier deployment using <strong>BGP Anycast &amp; Unicast based SIP routers all running in Docker containers</strong>. One remarkable inovation to Telnyx’s approach is using iBGP unicast within their private Docker network to route public IPs used from within containers to the public internet and their eBGP routers.</p> <p>Telnyx uses a number of open source and open protocol technologies that OTF members also use:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Docker</strong> (as a linux process container for micro services)</li> <li><strong>Quagga</strong> (as a iBGP and eBGP router)</li> <li><strong>Kamailio</strong> (as a SIP proxy and registar)</li> <li><strong>FreeSWITCH</strong> (as a RTP media processing node with high available failover with call recreation)</li> <li><strong>PostgreSQL</strong> (as a SQL databse to assist in FreeSWITCH high available failover with call recreation)</li> </ul> <p>Some notes on OTF member <strong>Voxter (Canada)</strong></p> <ul> <li>Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver membership dues.</li> <li>CEO Dayton Turner volunteers his time as an OTF director.</li> <li>Developers, <a href="https://github.com/danielfinke">Daniel Finke</a> and <a href="https://github.com/busseyl">Lucas Bussey</a> make source code <a href="https://github.com/2600hz/kazoo/commits/master?author=danielfinke">contributions</a> to the Kazoo project.</li> <li>Sponsored development and enhancements to the Kazoo project’s <a href="https://github.com/2600hz/kazoo/tree/master/applications/acdc">ACDC module</a>, Asterisk AMI Emulator and Queue Log Translator Modules, Dynamic Callflows support, Zoning Configuration and testing, as well as many other small additions.</li> </ul> <p>Some notes on OTF member <strong>Reper.io (USA)</strong></p> <ul> <li>Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver membership dues.</li> <li>CEO Noah Mehl volunteers his time as an OTF director.</li> <li>Leads best practices regarding RabbitMQ in a highly-available cluster.</li> <li>Developer, Noah Mehl make source code <a href="https://github.com/2600hz/kazoo/pulls?utf8=✓&amp;q=is%3Aclosed%20is%3Apr%20author%3Anoahmehl%20">contributions</a> to the Kazoo project</li> </ul>

Founding Open Telecom Foundation members Voxter and Reper.io are on-site in Chicago for meetings and presentations in conjunction with ClueCon 2017.

2017-07-25T12:00:00+00:002017-07-25T12:00:00+00:00http://opentelecom.foundation/foundation/member/non-profit/2017/07/25/member-xentric<p>Now that the Open Telecom Foundation is now a legal entity, our members can offiatially <a href="/new_member_join.html">join as members</a> after first reading and agreeing to our foundation <a href="/bylaws.html">By-Laws</a>.</p> <p>Today, <strong>Xentric</strong>, from Uruguay, has joined as a <em>Silver Member</em> and is represented by volunteer <em>Silver Director</em> Alvaro Vargas on the founding OTF Board.</p> <p>As a <em>Silver Member</em>, Xentric is happy to contribute its annual OTF membership fee, paid in monthly instalments.</p> <p><strong>Xentric (Uruguay)</strong></p> <ul> <li>Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver member dues.</li> <li>CEO Alvaro Vargas volunteers his time as an OTF director.</li> </ul>

Now that the Open Telecom Foundation is now a legal entity, our members can offiatially join as members after first reading and agreeing to our foundation By-Laws.