Actually its Open Source Telephony Advancement Group<div>The goal is to build a nonprofit org that can draw grants and donations to pay for the development of open source projects. That would include new libraries (have a few ideas such as a portaudio replacement and a liberally licensed robust xmpp lib) or it could be adding features to other open source projects such as those you listed.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jan.berger@video24.no">jan.berger@video24.no</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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with OSTAG?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Also – is this a FS
activity, or a joint activity supported by Asterisk, Yate etc?</span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Brian West<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 3. juni 2010 21:22<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Freeswitch-dev]
OSTAG - Open Source Telephony Action Group</span></font><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I would like to thank everyone that has donated to this cause.
The money has been collected for the Open Source Telephony Advancement
Group (I think Collins had a brain flub up).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Michael Collins wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="word-spacing:0px">Good news!</span></span></font></span><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br>
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<span>The Open Source Telephony Action Group (OSTAG) is
almost ready to become an official 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We need to
raise $800 in order to file the necessary paperwork. We have set up a PayPal
account where we can all send our donations:</span><br>
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<span><a href="mailto:donations@ostag.org" target="_blank">donations@ostag.org</a></span><br>
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<span>Please assist us in moving this important
organization forward. OSTAG is dedicated to the advancement of open source
telecommuncations software that improves the lives of people all over the
world. This is a most worthy cause! Please help now and in the future.</span><span> </span><br>
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<span>-Michael</span></span></font></p>
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