[Freeswitch-users] New Bounty (again): Improved Mod_voicemail Emulation

[Steven Ayre]

> 1) Gauging interest in making this an open source project.

mod_voicemail is already open source.

If you want a feature not in it, specify what it is so that it can be added, or someone can chime in with a tip on how you can already do it. Or you could even supply a patch which adds the feature.

So the list of what's missing is really what's useful.

Steve on iPhone

On 24 Aug 2010, at 16:56, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at kriskinc.com> wrote:

> Anthony,
> 
>  I intend to make a list but I wanted to start by:
> 1) Gauging interest in making this an open source project.
> 2) Seeing what other people have done (I'm certainly not the first to
> think of this).
> 
>  Don't focus too much on Asterisk, I'm not.  The real goal of this
> effort is to provide a powerful, easy to use, COMPLETELY customizable
> voicemail interface for FreeSWITCH.  FreeSWITCH is one of the most
> powerful pieces of software I have ever used and mod_voicemail is an
> excellent start.  However, every user, company, and organization in
> the world has a different idea of what "voicemail" should be like.
> Asterisk, Mitel, Avaya, legacy Nortel, NEC, Shoretel, cell carriers
> like T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, etc.  All slightly different prompt
> structures and feature sets.
> 
> In our case we're coming from Asterisk so at first it will need to
> emulate Asterisk.  Eventually we're going to run it in two modes
> "legacy voicemail" and "enhanced voicemail" (with our own menu design
> and feature set).  Enhanced voicemail should also have advanced
> unified messaging capabilities (I feel so slimy for using that
> buzzword) and other features integrated with our architecture that
> just aren't practical for us to implement in C.
> 
>  Having to modify mod_voicemail and recompile it to meet some of
> these needs is less than ideal.  If all goes to plan FreeSWITCH will
> have the best (in my opinion) "voicemail" application in the industry,
> making it easier for admins/users of other systems to migrate to
> FreeSWITCH and further FreeSWITCH in its quest to take over the world.
> What's wrong with that?  ;)
> 
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Anthony Minessale
> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe you should start with an extensive list of what you can't do
>> with mod_voicemail that you are missing.
>> 
>> The thought of making a separate module to pretend to be Asterisk
>> makes me sad.  I consider that a step backwards.
>> If you want to make mod_voicemail better so you can personally do
>> anything you choose with it (such as make it emulate other systems)
>> that's a *bit* better.
> 
> -- 
> Kristian Kielhofner
> http://www.astlinux.org
> http://blog.krisk.org
> http://www.star2star.com
> http://www.submityoursip.com
> http://www.voalte.com
> 
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