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Vote for Open-Source Representative on ISC
LinuxTelephony writes "Voting for the Vovida Networks sponsored seat on the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC) started at 8:00 AM on August 10th and will run until midnight August 12th. Vovida Networks will be paying the membership fees as well as travel, food, and lodging expenses for this elected position." I don't know any of these people, and I have no idea how they got nominated. But I'm sure many other Slashdot readers have informed opinions about ISC goings-on and will happily vote for the best candidate(s).
Kill the first poster
Anyway this looks cool but I'm not shure what it means for us...
I don't actually exist.
Stupid login ... I wanted to be the first !! ... but a naive question.
Very interesting
What's the ISC do ?
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"Bastard Operators From Hell" is an anagram for "Shatterproof Armored Balls". =)
The nominees were selected by their names being submitted to Vovida Networks on their web page. The information appeared on several web sites, including LinuxToday, Freshmeat, Linux Telephony, and others.
Am I the only one to have Netscape crash every time I visit the site? (Solaris 7 + Sun's version of Netscape, FWIW). lynx seems to work fairly OK, but it's a pain viewing a frames page with lynx...
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looks like the choices boil down to age and experience -v- youth and vigor.......shall we send the student?
I drink to make other people more interesting
Besides like cardboard trees, fake guns, etc for a stage production.
The other applicatnts either look pathetic or are not as well known.
It is a pity because VoIP is a field where linux can and should rule. Why? the reason is obvious - because it is the only platform allowing development of the full spectrum of devices starting with consumer electronics (think StrongArm) and finishing with big switching gateway systems (think SGI or special architectures;-).
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
http://www.sigsegv.cx/
The ISC is the International Softswitch Consortium. Check them out at www.isc.org.
Ah, just vote for the guy who wrote the 3com driver. Thats pretty cool in and of itself.
Four-digit slashdot ID. Recognize.
ISC is at www.softswitch.org
Don't take this statement to imply anything other than what I say:
I just checked every file in the Linux 2.3.12 kernel source tree (including "CREDITS", which I believe *also* covers folks who's work is no longer used). Regardless of any other claims, none of their names appear. (I did a "grep -iw" of their last names and inspected the results. They were all either variable names (eg. "wRight") or other folks with the same last name.)
"props" is slang "respect" in a sense.
:) I embrace all new slang - English is such a screwed up language anyhow, I don't feel bad abusing it. ;)
I give him/her props. = Respect to him/her!
Props to Dave. = Respect to Dave!
He/she's got props. = He/she gets my respect!
I don't think there is a word to word mapping for it, but you can give it out or have it. In any case, its a good thing to have, and it's a nice thing to say to someone else. Often associated with hiphop, but I think it's a great term.
"Old man yells at systemd"
In the absence of any other information about the candidates, I take note of the fact that one of them is an amateur radio operator.
Such folks in general have a very long history of sharing information, charitable works (eg. providing communication infrastucture during emergencies), international cooperation, dealing with beaurocratic requirements (ever take a ham exam?), and contribution to free software projects. (For an example of this last one, Phil Karn's once-popular "KA9Q" software was so named because that's his ham radio call sign.)
Can anyone else make any other comments about the candidates? I don't know any of them as individuals.
So what is this SoftSwitch organization?
I always thought ISC was Internet Software Consortium (makers of bind, dhcp tools, etc.).
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I shamelessly stole the following blurb from
www.ostel.com. It appears David Sugar would be well-suited as a candidate. I'll try to check out the others as well.
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Open Source Telecom Corporation (OST) was founded to provide commercial development and support of Open Source(tm) telecommunications software.
Who we are:
President
Martin Clinton was educated at Oxford University, and has over 20 years of executive-level experience in the telecommunications software industry. He is the founder and proprietor of IN-GATE Technology. For the
past ten years, IN-GATE has been a provider of messaging and intelligent call routing products to telephone service providers.
Chief Technology Officer
David Sugar has been actively involved in both the formative years of personal computer technology and later in the development of computer based telephony systems. While with Panasonic, Mr. Sugar was involved in
the design, implementation, and bringing to market of an entirely new family of PC integrated voice messaging and ACD products for the Panasonic DBS. In more recent years, Mr. Sugar has contributed to the
development of biometric technology and, while director of software development for Fortran Corp., was responsible for the development of single-point-of-entry network management tools for PBX systems that are
used to maintain the communications infrastructure of several prominent federal agencies, including the SEC and Social Security Administration, as well as the Federal Reserve board. He is also the author of many
open-source projects, including ACS, a powerful open source telecommunications server.
Vice President
Richard Bodo comes to OST from VA Research, was educated at San Jose State University, has over 5 years experience in the telecommunications software industry, and is the coordinator of the Voxilla project.
Voxilla.org, the first project of it's kind, is a collection and portal promoting Linux-based telecommunications software.
Our Labs:
OST has the test equipment needed to get the job done in-house. Excel, Harris, and Toshiba and Panasonic switching equipment, in combination with large, custom-designed call generators form our telephony
backbone. Ethernet, Arcnet, and Token Ring LANs built around Sparc, SGI, and PC-based hardware running a variety of operating systems are available for development and compatibility testing. A wide variety of
PC-based CTI cards and some simulators are also on hand. Agreements with other testing labs, including the Center for Software Development, provide us with easy access to any resources not in-house.
I would say vote for David Sugar. He's done a lot with Linux Telephony and actually has code in that field available (http://www.tycho.com)
djweis
he's associated with the company referenced at www.televid.com. I've shamelessly stolen some stuff from their website:
.from their about page ]
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Our Mission
To provide high quality telecommunications services to carriers, corporations, and service retailers by utilizing leading-edge data telephony technologies across a managed global network.
[ my comments. .
TeleVideo Global, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, initiated operations in December 1997 as a Next Generation Service Provider of Telecommunications Services using leading-edge data telephony technologies.
Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Company initiated its first US operations in 1998 from its Atlanta, New York, and Knoxville nodes. The Company is expanding global operations through interconnections with international partners worldwide.
Unlike many Internet Telephony Service Providers, we maintain an extremely high threshold of quality we demand for the underlying technologies and network connections utilized for the TeleVideo Global Network.
Before founding the company, Stephen C. Nodvin, Ph.D., President and CEO, spent over four years researching the emerging data telephony field and testing voice and fax gateways.
Our Co-Founder, Sabette Elter-Nodvin, provides the company with its international business focus.
Our Technical-Specialist, Andrey Kovalenko, is an expert in computer-telephony integration and programming.
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As far as I can tell, with the exception of using Mandrake Linux and Apache for their web server, it doesn't appear that televideo is planning on creating open source telephony software.
BTW, here's the blurb from his webpage:
Dr. Stephen C. Nodvin
Graduate Faculty in Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology
Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries
The University of Tennessee
Although you might think this isn't the same person, it definitely is because the reference above also references www.televid.com
The University of Tennessee
I took a further look at their site. In looking at their site, it seems they do have an experienced telecom developer on their site. Interestingly enough, it seems that most of their developer's experience is in the Windows world.
I looked at 3c505.c in linux1.13. The driver's originator is listed as Craig Southeren. This leads me to think any of the following:
1) Craig Southern's name was spelled incorrectly on the Vovida site (likely)
2) Craig Southeren's name is spelled incorrectly
in the initial comments found in the driver (less likely IMO)
3) Craig Southern and Craig Southeren are not the same person (very unlikely IMO, but devastating if it is true)
Craig Southeren is apparently also the author of nenscript (a tool taking ascii->postscript).
Nothing against Craig, but David Sugar has also been contributing to Linux for some time now. He has written BBS's, Getty's, protocol stacks for switch communications, and his latest project, ACS, is a very promising communications server. Check out his stuff at http://www.tycho.com