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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hello all! I wanted to start off by giving you all some good news: Our friends at Newegg <http://www.newegg.com> have successfully slain a Patent Troll named Soverain. This NPE (non-producing entity) acquired some questionable patents and started suing just about anybody with an online shopping cart on their website. To make a long story short: Newegg fought them in court instead of settling and in the process got all three patents invalidated! More details available at the Ars Technica article<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-…>. In any event, those of us who do software for a living, especially in the US, are well aware of the dangerous patent situation we have. Hattip to Newegg for doing us all a favor. More good news! We have released a few more ClueCon 2012 videos: * Open Source is revamping telecom. You want in. Learn from our wins and misses.<http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/open-source-revamping-telecom-you-want-…>- Darren Schreiber * HOMER in the cloud. <http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/homer-cloud/> - Alexandr Dubovikov * OSTAG - Who we are, what we do, and why.<http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/ostag-who-what-why/>- Raymond Chandler I will be uploading the slides for the talks shortly. In other ClueCon news we are gearing up for the 2013 event. We look forward to hearing from prospective speakers, sponsors, and attendees. As a reminder, we are at the same hotel <http://www.cluecon.com/hotels/> this year and the event runs from August 6th through the 8th. Stay tuned for more information. We have an annual tradition that is coming up next week: buy the developers dinner! Quite simply, we invite the community to throw some money into the hat and then the developers use it to buy dinner. The easiest way to donate is to click the Donate button on the main FreeSWITCH website<http://www.freeswitch.org>. (Right-hand side, under the ClueCon 2013 logo.) Do a Paypal transaction, mark it person (a gift is fine) and in the message to the recipient mention that the money is for the developer dinner. We appreciate the community doing this again for us this year. Thank you! We'll talk to you this Wednesday on our weekly conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_30>. Last week was an open discussion<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_23>. This week I would will be doing an event socket and ESL review. More people are using these great tools and we are seeing some of the same questions being asked so we want to make sure that we get this information out there for everyone to use. Thanks again for being a great community and we will talk to you again next 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 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Hello to our great OSS community! We are happy to report that the first ClueCon 2012 videos have been posted to our YouTube channel <http://www.youtube.com/cluecon>! The first talks posted are: * I'm Living In The Wrong Future!<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SPpicsrbac>- Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky * ClueCon 2012 Keynote Address <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQansGixpI>- Anthony Minessale This week we will be posting a few more videos from day one of ClueCon 2012<http://www.cluecon.com/schedule/2012/>. Join this week's conference call or subscribe to our YouTube channel to find out which videos are uploaded next. Now that calendar year 2013 is in full swing we are making plans for ClueCon 2013, which will be held on August 6-8, 2013. Once again we'll be at the Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile <http://www.cluecon.com/hotels/2012/>. Stay tuned for more information about this year's event. The development team has been working hard on some cool new things which will be announced in due course. In the meantime Ken Rice is working very hard on getting FreeSWITCH 1.2.6 ready for final release. If you have a sandbox system that you can use to test the latest git HEAD please do so. Also, feel free to visit our bug tracker and see if there are any bugs that you can fix or verify as was discussed on last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_16>. This week we will be having an open discussion<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_23>on topics that are dear to you. Please bring your questions for discussion and any tips and tricks that you'd like to share with the community. Have a great week! -- 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 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Greetings! It has been a light week when it comes to news items. However, the FreeSWITCH team has been working hard on bug fixes and various projects. More information on those will come out once the details are available. Last week we had a community discussion on the weekly conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_09>, mostly discussing the ways that we can all help out with getting Jira's handled. Although we did not formally adopt the "Jira karma" idea we decided that we (as a project and community) would do our best to reward those who help out with bug marshaling, verifying, documenting, etc. Every little bit helps. To that end this week<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_16>we will be spending some time as a group going over a few selected bugs and as a group trying our best to figure what's going on. Ken and Brian will supply us with a few bugs to tackle. Oh, and if you use Cisco phones, please be very careful<http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/hack-turns-the-cisco-phone-on-your-…> ! -- 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 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Welcome to 2013! Things are slowly returning to normal now that we're past the holidays. We did manage to have community conference calls<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Weekly_Conference_Call>over the past few weeks. We spent most of our time going over some handy tips and tricks <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_02>. We also discussed the new nested conditions<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_19>feature. This week <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_09> we will be having a community scrum and will be going over the status of the latest FreeSWITCH release. We will also be discussing a few ideas from the mailing list on how we might be able to get more volunteers working on Jiras. We would like to take a moment to say thanks to those who have made international DIDs available for the FreeSWITCH public conference. We now have DIDs for Australia, Germany, Israel, Spain, UK, and USA. The DIDs are listed on each conference call agenda page and there is a note as to who provided each DID. Thanks to all who have lent a hand. If you are in a position to provide a DID for other countries please contact me off list. Now that 2013 has hit we will be gearing up for the next ClueCon<http://www.cluecon.com>. There's only 210 days until ClueCon 2013! We will be sending out an official request for speaking proposals as well as contacting prospective event sponsors. We are looking forward to another great event. Have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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