[Freeswitch-users] FS Slide deck?

Tue Oct 13 18:38:47 PDT 2009

Michael;

Roger that.  I'll check my schedule to see when I might have some time  
available to make the change.
It seems as if I have some time available the tuesday after (bleep)  
freezes over.

Acronym corrected. ;-)

Best Regards,
Karl J. Vesterling
kjv at ken-ton.com
202-461-3231 x0

On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Michael Collins wrote:

> Karl,
>
> Yeah, this post is wrong. You've got "acronym" misspelled. Once you  
> fix that then I think it's all good! ;)
>
> Seriously, it's okay to put critical information into the wiki, but  
> perhaps you could remove the tongue-in-cheek comments.
>
> -MC
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Karl Vesterling <kjv at ken-ton.com>  
> wrote:
>
> If that's the case, does this also apply to VoIP gateway services?
>
> If so, I'll consider phrasing this differently:
>
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Voicepulse.xml
> --begin--
> Voicepulse Warning
>
> WARNING!!! Recent changes (Sep 2008) in VoicePulse have limited  
> connect03 to only IAX termination. Please remove any entries that  
> you may have reflecting the gateway below from your dialplan as it  
> will most likely answer the call and play a message saying something  
> to the effect of "Your call could not be completed as dialed because  
> we changed our production environment in an effort to demonstrate  
> what bad engineering is all about. BAD is an acronymn for Broken As  
> Designed. Please hang up and make changes on all your switches. Even  
> though we shouldn't have answered the call and simply ignored it  
> entirely so that another gateway could facilitate your call, we FELT  
> it wise to seriously inconvenience you by answering the call  
> immediately giving no other gateway a chance to place the call.  
> Thanks for using our service and we look forward to abusing you  
> again in the near future.
> UPDATE - Problem getting worse, not better 3/30/2009. I switched DID  
> providers because of problems w/ Voicepulse, such as echo, dropped  
> calls, and consistent registration problems hence calls don't get  
> placed and inbound don't get routed to me. Incidentally, they will  
> not port DID's, they'll tell you they will, but they don't.
> --end--
>
> Perhaps just saying, "stay away, far far away. Recommend this  
> service only to people and/or organizations you don't like or are in  
> direct competition with" would suffice eh?
>
> Suggestions? Recommendations?
>
> Best Regards,
> Karl J. Vesterling
> kjv at ken-ton.com
> 202-461-3231 x0
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Michael Collins wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org>  
>> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Michael Collins  
>> <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>> > Thanks for reporting back. Please let all the Asterisk users know  
>> that they
>> > are welcome to join us in #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net and  
>> that they will
>> > not be abused like people do in other less friendly IRC channels.
>>
>> Funny you mention this.  Many people report that the way the FS
>> community refers to Asterisk in docs/wikis/irc/whatever makes the FS
>> camp seem *less* welcoming to them.  After all, they identify as
>> Asterisk Users and take the criticism as being kinda harsh.  Most of
>> them acknowledge the shortcomings of Asterisk but are put off when
>> someone else points them out.  It's crazy, I know.  The thing is, I
>> remember thinking that too.  After getting to know FS better, I  
>> didn't
>> notice it as much.  Nobody likes to hear their baby is ugly --even if
>> they know it is.
>>
>> Interesting. I'd like to know what specifically turned them off. It  
>> could be node 117, but that was written by Anthony in response to  
>> dozens of questions about the subject. In any case, if the Asterisk  
>> guys look at the first edition of the Starfish/TFOT book they'll  
>> see glowing praise of Anthony Minessale and Brian West, so maybe  
>> they'll be willing to listen to those guys since they've got so  
>> much Asterisk knowledge. The other thing is that many people in the  
>> FreeSWITCH community are Asterisk refugees. They left Asterisk for  
>> FreeSWITCH because they had some sort of trouble with Asterisk. If  
>> that comes across in the docs then we'll have to see about cleaning  
>> that up.
>>
>> At our session, and in general, I've noticed people are more
>> interested in hearing about FS when you don't make direct comparisons
>> to Asterisk.  Besides, FS stands on it's own merit.
>>
>> Agreed. Direct comparisons can always be slanted in any direction.  
>> Besides, FreeSWITCH stacks up very well against a lot of modern  
>> (i.e. expensive) equipment put out by the big boys (Cisco, Avaya,  
>> NEC, ShoreTel, etc.).
>>
>> Just what I've observed *and* my 2 additional cents.
>>
>> Gabe
>> Thanks,
>> MC
>>
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