What We Do

OUR VISION

BUILD & SUPPORT A VIBRANT COMMUNITY USING AND ENHANCING THE WORLD’S BEST OPEN SOURCE AND OPEN STANDARD TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES.

Our Purpose

The Open Telecom Foundation is a not-for-profit collaboration between community members who are passionate about open source projects and open protocols that facilitate better quality telecommunications.

We Contribute!

Individual Member Contributions

Our members have been active contributors to key open source telecom projects. Here is a summary view of our members’ contributions.

CloudPBX (Canada)

• Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver member dues.
• CTO Graham Nelson-Zutter a volunteers his time as an OTF director and is our signing officer.
• Sponsored multilingual enhancements to Kazoo from primary author 2600Hz.
• Sponsored enhancements to the Kazoo project’s ACDC module by adding RabbitMQ based call prioritization by hiring 3rd party developers.
• Sponsored enhancements to the VoIPmonitor project’s sensor by adding a system config file and a system daemon for init.d.

Conversant (New Zealand)

• Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver membership dues.
• CEO Cameron Beattie volunteers his time as an OTF director and is our chairperson.
• Conversant developers (Geekcrowds, kalda341, TAFrew and others) make source code contributions to the Kazoo project.
• Has sponsored development and enhancements to various features of the Kazoo project by hiring 3rd party developers.

Quik (USA)

• Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver membership dues.
• Sponsored Johnny5 allotments to Kazoo from primary author 2600hz.
• CEO Jose Paz volunteers his time as an OTF director.

Raffel (Netherlands)

• Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver membership dues.
• CEO Remco van Vugt volunteers his time as an OTF director.
• Sponsored enhancements to the Kazoo project’s ACDC module by hiring 3rd party developers.

Reper.io (USA)

• Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver membership dues.
• CEO Noah Mehl volunteers his time as an OTF director.
• Leads best practices regarding RabbitMQ in a highly-available cluster.
• Developer, Noah Mehl make source code contributions to the Kazoo project

Voxter (Canada)

• Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver membership dues.
• CEO Dayton Turner volunteers his time as an OTF director.
• Developers, Daniel Finke and Lucas Bussey make source code contributions to the Kazoo project.
• Sponsored development and enhancements to the Kazoo project’s ACDC module, Asterisk AMI Emulator and Queue Log Translator Modules, Dynamic Callflows support, Zoning Configuration and testing, as well as many other small additions.

Xentric (Uruguay)

• Is a founding member of the OTF who is proud to contribute the small monthly Silver member dues.
• CEO Alvaro Vargas volunteers his time as an OTF director.

Open Telecom Foundation Contributions

In addition to the independent member contributions to open source projects, the OTF has started planning its own direct contributions projects of interest. If you have a project that you feel would be a good fit for the OTF, please become a member and let us know!

Contributing to Upstream Projects

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”).

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.

Planning & Coordinating

Our members hold weekly technical meetings to discuss and coordinate efforts in dev/ops surrounding our favourite open telecom projects. Frequent technical meetings help synchronize the common and individual resources of our members.

Our volunteer directors hold board meetings at least once per month and often more frequently. Frequent board meetings means that shared OTF resources and funds can be properly allocated with little delay.

Providing Resources & Financial Support

Each OTF member operates carrier-grade open telecom infrastructure in various parts of the world: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Uruguay, USA. Members are happy to contribute compute and connectivity resources. Together we can help provide the resources independent software developers may need to get your idea or project off the ground.

OTF operations are conducted on on a volunteer basis. Our membership fees help the OTF take care of accounting and basic filing requirements. We are able to raise extra funds for enhancements and new projects based on the technical merits and overall beneficial user impact. Please let us know how we might help get your idea of the ground!