<div dir="ltr">a) How do you know? On what basis are you judging that? It does seem true that the average personal tinkerer is using Asterisk, but it seems many, many, many (most?) larger scale when choosing between * and FS choose FS. Some have legacy systems that they don't want to bother migrating, but new stuff goes on FS.<div>
<br></div><div>b) That said, the do-it-for-me/hold-my-hand-the-entire-way group of people - there's more tutorials, free code, distributions with decent guis for Asterisk. Just take a look at pbx in a flash, it sounds like there's lots of people who use that. However.. if that's all they are, it's not really much of a help to the project to try to reach them. Unless you expect some of them to grow beyond the basic need and offer back.</div>
<div><div>Other than "less" FOSS gui kind of stuff.. no, it seems FS pretty much has it all.</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Basically, for both a & b: there's lots of tintkerers out there using asterisk. I doubt that's a worthwhile metric to use.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">-Avi Marcus</span><br></span></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Henry Huang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b_ball_henry@hotmail.com">b_ball_henry@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font color="#333333"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Nothing. It's just hard to change the way people used to do things. I'd say if we can use existing FreePBX (version 2) to control underlying FreeSWITCH, then people will be jumping ship. <br>
<br>But, that's just for IP PBX side of business. Wholesale or dialer application developer has been adopting the FreeSWITCH solution instead of Asterisk in general. <br><br>Which side of critical mass are you referring to? (IP PBX or?)<br>
<br>Henry<br></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Craig Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craigesmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">craigesmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
<div style="background-color:transparent;font-size:medium"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some recent frustrations with Asterisk have me looking at FreeSWITCH, but it’s lack? of adoption leaves me wondering.</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here are some questions I have as a long time Asterisk user, dCAP, and Astricon attendee. </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Why hasn’t FreeSWITCH reached a critical mass? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is the XML configuration that scary?</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What does Asterisk have that FreeSWITCH doesn’t?</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Does FreeSWITCH need better documentation and/or tutorials?</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is it git? </span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Would a FreeSWITCH certification help?</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"></span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I want to help the FreeSWITCH project, but I’m not developer or philanthropist , what can I do?</span></font></div>
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