[Freeswitch-users] State of GUIs

[Roger Castaldo]

Jay am I to take your response as you are interested in helping with the
development of the project and have some background in C#?

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Anthony Minessale <
anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:

> We encourage people to make GUIs for FreeSWITCH and we have mixed results.
>  Being controlled externally is actually baked into the design of
> FreeSWITCH.  Many of the abstract concepts int the core that people are
> still unearthing are all about developing external apps.  The exercise to
> build one was intentionally left to the end user.  The point was to harness
> the hard part about telephony so you could focus on your business use case.
>  Really, based on the requirements of the original poster, I think a
> comercial solution is in order. I also would not judge activity by release
> dates / commits etc.   FreeSWITCH itself has not been released since 2009
> yet the C code has grown by 35 megabits since then with commits nearly
> hourly.  We just happen to be more open about our development than others
> may be comfortable with.
>
> Anyway, I know for a fact all of the above list in the original post are
> still up and running but not everyone has the resources to run an active
> community.
>
> As referred to earlier in this thread, we made the CudaTEL PBX at
> Barracuda Networks which is an appliance designed to do everything
> described above and that effort could not be done without
> a commercial incentive to develop it and a team of dedicated employees.
>
> Everything you ever wanted is typically hard to come by when dealing with
> Free GUIs so the alternative is to invest in one of them and get them to
> focus on the functionality you seek.
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> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Brett Wilson <brett at launch3.net> wrote:
>
>> I checked out freepbx. Freepbx v3, the complete rewrite that was supposed
>> to work with freeswitch, actually got spun off into the blue.box project.
>> Seems that the blue.box project is basically dead. The last commit was
>> November 2011. Fusionpbx looks to be the only game in town. I was wrong, it
>> is still being developed. I just did a new install of it today, and allowed
>> it to auto update. There are indeed some changes that I see from my install
>> from about 4 months ago. So that is a positive thing, but its too bad that
>> the feel is still lacking. I took a look at some code, and what I saw did
>> not impress me. Display code mixed right in with the logic. I did not look
>> for more than about 30 seconds, but IMO it is not ‘proper’ application
>> design. I am a big proponent of MVC architecture, and what I saw of
>> fusionpbx code does not look all that impressive. I give credit where
>> credit is due. The platform is functioning to an extent, most things
>> actually work. I do realize that developing something of that size requires
>> tons of effort. My ideal solution would be something driven by ExtJS and
>> PHP on the backend. ExtJS provides the most advanced and rich javascript
>> controls i have seen. Plus its sister product, sencha touch, would enable
>> great admin functionality from a smartphone or tablet device. Here I go
>> rambling on… I wish someone would develop an awesome GUI for freeswitch to
>> help get it into the limelight where it deserves to be. If I had the time I
>> would love to create a comprehensive and great looking GUI.****
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>> *From:* Andrew Cassidy [mailto:andrew at cassidywebservices.co.uk]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 07, 2012 6:46 AM
>> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help
>> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] State of GUIs****
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>> Look at http://www.freepybx.org although I didn't manage to get it
>> installed. I do have fusion installed on a text box although personally I'm
>> not keen on it.****
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>> On 7 March 2012 08:35, Brett Wilson <brett at launch3.net> wrote:****
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>> Hey guys,****
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone had any info on the current state of FS guis?
>> It seems that most of the gui projects (blue.box, fusionpbx) have been
>> mostly abandoned in terms of development. I would like something simple for
>> end users to self-administer if needed. The problem I have with fusionpbx
>> is that config files are overwritten by whatever is in the database. If you
>> hand-edit a config file, fusion will not parse the file and load those
>> settings  into the interface. I realize that takes much more coding to do
>> than using a database to simply write config files. But I feel that the
>> freeswitch interface could be improved anyway. Unfortunately it seems that
>> project has been abandoned. There have not been any releases since mid-2011.
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