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[FreeSWITCH Community] Update On Donations For H.323
by Michael Collins 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

We have received several donations already - thank you very much! Just a reminder: please be sure to leave a note with your donation so that we know what your donation is for. Our target for getting Robert Jongbloed to Chicago from Australia is US $3000. We will let you know when we've met our goal and we'll give you status updates along the way. Thanks again for your generosity! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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[FreeSWITCH Community] How You Can Help With H.323 In FreeSWITCH
by Michael Collins 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Greetings! We would like to let you know about an opportunity we all have to assist with H.323 support in FreeSWITCH. We are working on getting Robert Jongbloed, author of mod_opal and all around cool guy, to ClueCon 2012. Robert does a lot of work with H.323 and his presence with us at ClueCon would go a long way in helping us get H.323 fully implemented in FreeSWITCH. The challenge is that Robert lives in Australia! To that end we are taking up a collection to help defray the substantial travel costs. Here's what you can do: visit FreeSWITCH.org and click the Donate button. In your Paypal donation, click "Add special instructions to the seller" and make a note that this donation is to assist with getting Robert to ClueCon. We'll take care of the rest. Thanks again for all of your wonderful support! -- 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 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

One week closer to ClueCon! Things have been very busy for the FreeSWITCH team and community. In addition to gearing up for ClueCon <http://www.cluecon.com?cc12-0716> we've all been working on our day jobs and mixing in the occasional summer vacation. We've also had inclement weather play a role in scheduling one of our weekly conference<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Weekly_Conference_Call?cc12-0716>call presentations. Dave Kompel, one of our resident Windows gurus, had been scheduled to discuss a technique for handling the Windows firewall in a manner similar to how we use Fail2Ban<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Fail2ban?cc12-0716>in a Linux environment, however thunderstorms in his area required his full attention on protecting and keeping his servers up and running. We will reschedule as soon as possible. This week we have scheduled Darren Schreiber from 2600hz<http://www.2600hz.com?cc12-0716>. He will be doing a follow up to his SIP 101 discussion<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_06_20?cc12-0716>from several weeks ago. We will be diving a bit deeper into the SIP protocol. In the initial discussion we focused most of our attention on getting SIP endpoints registered and the setup/teardown process. This week we will look at some of the other things SIP can do, like presence. We invite you to join us this Wednesday at 1PM Eastern, 10AM Pacific. In ClueCon news we are very happy to report that 2600hz is back as a Silver sponsor! In fact, the aforementioned Darren Schreiber will be giving a presentation<http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/open-source-revamping-telecom-you-want-…>at ClueCon, discussing some of the hard-earned lessons that 2600hz has learned over the past few years. If you are interested in cloud telephony then definitely be there for Darren's talk. For those who've not registered yet please keep in mind that the "bits will shift again" this Wednesday and registrants will receive four entries instead of the current eight. Register now <http://www.cluecon.com/register?cc12-0716> to maximize your opportunity to win lots of great prizes. The ClueCon countdown is already down to 21 days! We are looking forward to seeing everyone together again in Chicago. -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE cc12-0716

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[FreeSWITCH Community] It's That Time Again: Buy Dinner For The FreeSWITCH Developers
by Michael Collins 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Greetings all! It has been quite some time since we all got together and pitched in to buy dinner for the FreeSWITCH development team. A well-fed dev team means more features and fewer bugs, so let's all head over to the main FreeSWITCH page<http://www.freeswitch.org?feed12>and hit the donate button. Be sure to click the "special instructions" link in Paypal and mention that your donation is for feeding the developers. Feel free to be creative. :) If you prefer to use a payment method other than FreeSWITCH then please contact Brian West <brian(a)freeswitch.org>directly. Thanks again for being such a great community and support us over the years!

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Greetings all! We are back to a full week after taking last Wednesday off. This week<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_07_11?cc12-0709>we have Dave Kompel scheduled to talk to us on a subject that has been of much interest in recent weeks: firewall security on Windows deployments of FreeSWITCH. Many of you know that we have fail2ban<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Fail2ban?cc12-0709>available for Linux/Unix based installs, but what about Windows <http://xkcd.com/528?cc12-0709>? There are indeed techniques for Windows systems to update the Windows firewall to prevent things like the friendly scanner <http://www.freeswitch.org/node/343?cc12-0709>. Recall: the friendly scanner is an abuse of a SIP testing tool called SIPVicious<http://blog.sipvicious.org?cc12-0709>. People use it for nefarious purposes, so having the ability to lock down the source IP address on the fly is a powerful technique to employ. We look forward to this discussion <http://xkcd.com/841/>. We are happy to report that we have a new GOLD sponsor at ClueCon: Flowroute<http://www.flowroute.com?cc12-0709>! The folks at Flowroute have graciously offered to make sure that our attendees are well taken care of. First, they are supplying the gift bags that all of our attendees will receive. In those bags will be lots of goodies from Flowroute and our other sponsors<http://www.cluecon.com/sponsors?cc12-0709>. A special item will be a $25 gift card for Flowroute. Additionally, Flowroute is sponsoring a pizza party on Monday night, August 6 at Gino's<http://www.ginoseast.com?cc12-0709>in downtown Chicago! We hope you all will be able to join us. Only a few more weeks until we're all together again! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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[FreeSWITCH Community] ClueCon 2012 - Last Chance for 16 Entries
by Michael Collins 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hello all! I am happy to report that a number of people have taken advantage of this opportunity and have registered in time to get their 16 entries. Remember that you can register <http://www.cluecon.com/register?cc12-0703>any time on July 3rd and still qualify for the extra entries. The bits will shift at midnight Central time so don't delay! Only 34 more days and we'll all be in Chicago. See you then! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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[FreeSWITCH Community] Reminder: Last chance for 16 tickets before the bits shift!
by Michael Collins 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Just a friendly reminder: July 3rd is the last day to get all 16 tickets in the great ClueCon giveway. Be sure to get registered<http://www.cluecon.com/register?cc12-0702a>by the end of the day on Tuesday, July 3rd to maximize your chance to win big! Looking forward to seeing you all in Chicago next month. -- 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 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Welcome to July! We hope the leap second didn't crash any of your servers. Some folks were not so fortunate<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18672173> . On last week's conference call we had an open discussion on topics chosen by members of the community. One topic that got a fair amount of traction was how to address NAT when FreeSWITCH has a public IP address and the clients themselves are behind NAT. Dave Kompel shared his strategy of using "aggressive-nat-detection" on the SIP profile and then optionally setting "NDLB-connectile-dysfunction" for the directory entry. We also discussed other topics like IPv6 and using FreeSWITCH in the cloud with Amazon. The audio is available here<http://torrents.freeswitch.org/conf_call_2012-06-27.torrent?cc12-0702> . Darren Schreiber's company, 2600hz, made a very interesting announcement<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2600hz-launches-new-service-kazoo-b…>regarding "Kazoo BETA." This new cloud-based PBX solution uses a lot of open source software under the hood, including FreeSWITCH. Stay tuned for a more in-depth discussion with Darren about this new platform. On the ClueCon front we are happy to report that many have taken advantage of the fact that they can get 2^4 tickets (i.e. 16 tickets) for the drawings at ClueCon 2012. The bits will shift at the end of the day tomorrow, July 3, so don't delay! You can register quickly and easily here<http://www.cluecon.com/register?cc12-0702>on the ClueCon site. After July 3rd registrants will receive 2^3 or 8 tickets. Don't delay - we are giving away a total of ten 7" Android tablets among many other prizes supplied by our sponsors<http://www.cluecon.com/sponsors?cc12-0702> . Only 35 days until ClueCon 2012! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE cc12-0702

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Welcome to the last week of June! Things quieted down a bit last week, but we still had some interesting items for your consideration. Darren Schreiber from the 2600hz<http://www.2600hz.com?cc12-0625>project joined us last week on our conference call <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Weekly_Conference_Call?cc12-0625> to present "SIP 101" - a gentle introduction to the SIP protocol for those doing VoIP. It was a nice discussion and we plan to do a follow up, tentatively scheduled for July 18. The audio is available in the usual place<http://torrents.freeswitch.org/conf_call_2012-06-20.torrent?cc12-0625>and the slides are available here <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/files/SIP_101_Presentation.ppt?cc12-0625>. For this week's<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_06_27?cc12-0625>conference call we are going to have an open discussion about topics of interest to our community members. Our ClueCon schedule <http://www.cluecon.com/schedule?cc12-0625> is now full! Please visit the schedule to see a list of speakers and talk titles. We have a few presentations whose titles are yet to be announced, so check back often to stay updated. We are pleased to have Brad Pitt joining us this year! (No, not that one <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_pitt> - we have this one <http://www.cluecon.com/speaker/108?cc12-0625>.) Bradley J Pitt is a long-time veteran of the technology and telecom industries and recently joined Barracuda Networks <http://www.cudatel.com?cc12-0625>. His discussion will touch upon both technology and business aspects of the IP PBX world. As a reminder, you still have about one week before the "bits shift" and you go from 16 down to 8 tickets for your ClueCon registration<http://www.cluecon.com/register?cc12-0625>. Register right away so that you have the best chance possible to win one of the 10 Android tablets that will be given away this year! See you in Chicago! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE cc12-0625

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

We hope you're having a nice Monday today. The past week was a busy one both for the FreeSWITCH<http://www.freeswitch.org?cc12-0618>project and for ClueCon <http://www.cluecon.com?cc12-0618>. Last week's community conference call was a nice discussion about some of the things that will be happening at ClueCon this year. We also had a visit from Diana Cionoiu of the YATE <http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki?cc12-0618> project. This coming Wednesday we will have Darren Schreiber, co-author of both FreeSWITCH books and co-founder of the 2600hz project <http://www.2600hz.org?cc12-0618>, on our call to give his world-famous "SIP 101" presentation. We definitely look forward to that discussion. We also wanted to highlight an interesting blog post<http://blog.krisk.org/2012/06/everything-you-wish-you-didnt-need-to.html?cc…>by our friend and community member Kristian Kielhofner. Its provocative title is: "Everything you wish you didn't need to know about VoIP." Over the years Kristian has collected a lot of knowledge about interoperability - and lack thereof - between various VoIP devices and servers. Whether you're a VoIP novice or veteran we think you will appreciate seeing this knowledge written down for the benefit of all. In ClueCon news are happy to announce two training session and a birds of a feather (BOF) meetup for this year's event. Paid attendees of ClueCon will have their choice of FreeSWITCH or OpenSIPS training. The FreeSWITCH training will be conducted by the aforementioned Darren Schreiber. The OpenSIPS training will be conducted by none other than Bogdan-Andrei Iancu, lead developer of the OpenSIPS project. The training sessions will take place on Monday, August 6. On the evening of Wednesday, August 8 we will be having a VoIP security ("VoIPSec") meetup for those interested in discussing this subject with others who share an interest. Among those who will be present are Phil Zimmermann of PGP and ZRTP<http://zfone.com?cc12-0618>fame. Be sure to register right away so that you can get your extra chances to win. Anyone who registers before July 4th of this year will receive 10 entries in the great ClueCon giveaway. We have a lot of interesting items to give away this year, so stay tuned. And while you are at the ClueCon site to register <http://www.cluecon.com/register?cc12-0618>, but sure to review the schedule <http://www.cluecon.com/schedule?cc12-0618> as we've added a number of new speakers in the past week. See you in August! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE cc12-0618

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