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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Welcome to the last Monday of September 2012! We've had quite the interesting week. Perhaps the most interesting item the team dealt with was a vulnerability in the Sofia SIP stack that would cause a segmentation fault while processing a specially crafted SIP message. Just to show you how nimble the FreeSWITCH developers are, from the time the vulnerability was reported it took less than a day to fix, test, and roll a new version of FreeSWITCH. We encourage everyone on 1.2 to get updated to version 1.2.3 <http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.2.3.tar.bz2> as soon as possible. (The fix is also in the 1.3 development branch as of last Wednesday, September 19.) We tip our hats to Anthony and the rest of the dev team<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FreeSwitch_FAQ#Q:_So_where_do_I_find_wishli…>for their hard work on our behalf. Last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_09_19>was also very informative. We received an introduction to the repro SIP proxy <http://resiprocate.org/About_Repro> software. We look forward to this coming Wednesday <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_09_26>where Scott Godin and Daniel Pocock will continue the discussion and will get deeper into how to set up the proxy and use it with FreeSWITCH. If you haven't already tried to install repro please do so. Daniel has a nice tutorial<http://www.opentelecoms.org/using-repro-with-asterisk-or-freeswitch>over at OpenTelecoms.org - be sure to check it out and bring your questions on Wednesday. Finally, we'd like to draw your attention to this blog post<http://blog.krisk.org/2012/09/freeswitch-stable-branch-sponsored-by.html>by long time FreeSWITCH and open source telephony supporter Kristian Kielhofner. Kristian reports that his company, Star2Star Communications<http://www.star2star.com/>, is sponsoring the FreeSWITCH stable branch by giving direct financial support to the project. This allows for a full-time team member to work on things like the stable branch and packaging as well as community interaction and documentation. We appreciate those who support FreeSWITCH and open source telephony! Have a good week and we'll see you again in October. -- Michael S Collins Twitter: @mercutioviz http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hello all, It's been another productive week on the FreeSWITCH team. We are pleased to let you know that we have officially tagged <http://freeswitch.org/node/418>FreeSWITCH version 1.2.2 in the git repo. Source tarballs are available in the usual location <http://files.freeswitch.org>. Thanks to all those whose efforts make more frequent releases a reality. It is much appreciated. On last Wednesday's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_09_12>we enjoyed a nice Adhearsion <http://adhearsion.com/> presentation by Ben Langfeld and Ben Klang. Adhearsion is a Ruby-based framework for developing telephony applications. Ben and Ben discuss how Adhearsion works, why Ruby is cool for building telephony apps, and why the Adhearsion guys love FreeSWITCH. FreeSWITCH community members are invited to join the Adhearsion team at AdhearsionConf <http://adhearsionconf.com> in Palo Alto, CA on October 20-21, 2012. Community members receive a special rate by using discount code AHNLOVESFREESWITCH. Thanks to Ben and Ben for a great presentation with cool slides<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/images/8/8e/FreeSWITCH_Weekly_CC_2012-09-12.pdf> . For the next few weeks we look forward to hearing from Daniel Pocock and Scott Godin who will be telling us more about the Repro<http://www.resiprocate.org/About_Repro>SIP proxy and the ReSIProcate <http://www.resiprocate.org/Resip_Overview> SIP stack. For many of us it will be our first look at a SIP proxy that does not have its roots in the OpenSER project. We look forward to learning more on this Wednesday's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_09_19> . Have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Greetings! We hope you all had a great week. On our Wednesday conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_09_05>we discussed several items as a community. One item of note was how to handle mailing list posts that are overly broad and reflect a lack of research on the part of the individual doing the posting. After much discussion we decided that we would create some online documentation that helps new ones get their bearings when considering the big picture in FreeSWITCH. (For example, what are modules and why do we have them?) Thanks to Dave Kompel for helping to get that started. We are also pleased to announce that we have started up the Adopt-a-module<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Adopt-a-module>project. The idea is simple but powerful: community members who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about a specific module will volunteer to "adopt" that module. Adopting a module means doing several things: watching the mailing list and IRC channel for questions, monitoring the Git repository for new commits, keeping the module's wiki page up-to-date, and acting as a bug marshal for any Jira <http://jira.freeswitch.org> tickets that are opened. We've had several people step up already. Please visit the list of modules needing adoption<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Adopt-a-module#Modules_Waiting_for_Adoption>to see if you there is one that fits your area of expertise. We give a special note of thanks to Anshel Blum for helping to get this one going. This week we welcome Ben Langfield and Ben Klang<http://www.cluecon.com/speaker/111/>who will be discussing the Adhearsion <http://adhearsion.com/> framework for FreeSWITCH. Adhearsion is a Ruby-based framework for building telephony applications. You may recall that Ben Klang joined us at ClueCon 2012 <http://www.cluecon.com> to make the announcement<http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/news-about-adhearsion-project/>about Adhearsion being available for FreeSWITCH. We look forward to learning more about how Adhearsion works with FreeSWITCH. Let's all have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Happy Tuesday to you all! I hope you had a relaxing 3-day weekend. On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_08_29> we had a nice discussion about TLS <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Tls> in FreeSWITCH. Mitch Capper helped demystify some of the things that go on with creating certificates, handling certificate authorities (CA), and the like. This week we will be having a community discussion on how to improve our handling of poorly-worded or inappropriate questions sent to the mailing list. Ourupcoming schedule<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_08_29#Upcoming_Presentations> for September is all booked up, so make plans to be on our Wednesday conference calls. Be on the lookout for updated English Callie and French June sounds. They have been recorded and are being verified. I suspect they will show up in the next day or two. The new FreeSWITCH book is moving along as well. I just submitted chapter 2 to our publisher and am now on to redrafting chapter 3. On a side note I just want to mention that I updated the FreeSWITCH Wikipedia page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSWITCH> to reflect the fact that we are now on version 1.2.1 and that we've formed stable and development branches. ClueCon 2012 attendees and FreeSWITCH community members qualify for special pricing at the IIT Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo<http://www.rtc-conference.com/register/>. Use the special discount code *FREWDSC* when you register. More details are available at ClueCon.com <http://cluecon.com/>. Have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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