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

17 Dec '12

A happy and cold (in the northern hemisphere) Monday to you all! I'd like to start this week's news and notes by alerting everyone to the fact that there's been a significant addition to the functionality of the XML dialplan. If you've been around FreeSWITCH for any length of time you've probably read the words, "Nested conditions not allowed!" in yours or someone else's FreeSWITCH logs. As of last Friday<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/changelog/freeswitch.git?cs=9b7b46dbca9c4c458…>that has changed! In response to Jira FS-4935 <http://jira.freeswitch.org/browse/FS-4935> Anthony has added provisional support for nested <condition> tags inside the dialplan. (Thanks to IRC user vipkilla for adding this to the wiki<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Dialplan_XML#Nested_Conditions>already.) As you may know we are working the second edition of the FreeSWITCH "bridge" book<https://www.packtpub.com/freeswitch-1-0-6-build-robust-high-performance-tel…>. I will be updating chapters 5 and 8 to reflect this new change. It seems appropriate that with this new feature we should talk about it on this week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_19>. Ken Rice and I will work up some simple examples of how to use the nested conditions and how they relate to the existing XML dialplan controls such as the break attribute and the regex tag. If you have a dialplan example that works well with nested conditions please email Ken and me off list. One last reminder for our Windows users: Dave Kompel shared with us some useful information <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_12> for gathering debug data when FreeSWITCH crashes under Windows. Our other main Windows guru, Jeff Lenk, was also on the call and gave some helpful input. If you are running under Windows you now have more tools at your disposal with which to analyze crash data and open Jira tickets. Have a great week and we'll talk to you on Wednesday. -- 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 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Greetings! We are glad to report that the FreeSWITCH team has tagged version 1.2.5.3. You can download the tarball here<http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.2.5.3.tar.bz2>. Anyone using 1.2.5.x should update as soon as possible. We appreciate all those who have helped us with testing and tracking down some sneaky and pernicious little bugs. On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_05>we spent some time talking about the XML parser and some of its pre-processor directives. We discussed specifically how you can use the "exec" command to execute a shell script in the middle of XML processing. We also discussed a few tricks on how to look at the source code when you need to learn about some FreeSWITCH functionality that otherwise is not documented. This week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_12>subject is still pending, so stay tuned! One other item I'd like to mention is that we've had several reports of FreeSWITCH success stories. We will be providing more information about those in upcoming stories on our Web site. We've got people using FreeSWITCH in various situations as well as software developers who've added support for FreeSWITCH to their offerings. The FreeSWITCH ecosystem continues to grow and flourish! Thank you all for being a part of it. Take care and 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 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Happy December to everyone! Last week was painful for many of us as we were dealing with a sustained DDoS attack on most of our infrastructure. Kudos to the guys for working through it. It seems the worst is over and we can get back to the business at hand: doing FreeSWITCH stuff. :) In spite of the drama last week we did have a conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_11_28>and we released 1.2.5.2! We discussed mostly the details of the DDoS we experienced and how the community can assist in the future so that we can mitigate the effects of such an occurrence. With the community's help we will be more resistant to the effects of any future attacks. We appreciate the outpouring of support we received from everyone. This week <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_12_05> we will go back to discussing FreeSWITCH. We are still finalizing future guests so this week we'll do another installment of tips and tricks from the FreeSWITCH community. Among other things I will be showing how Chris Rienzo (IRC: crienzo) and I used the source this weekend to figure out what the XML preprocessor can do and get the wiki updated. I'll then show a simple example of the always-present-but-previously- undocumented command can do. As an added bonus we'll have an update on the ClueCon <http://www.cluecon.com> 2012 videos! Thanks and 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 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hello all! We are all back to a full week after many of us enjoyed some well-deserved time off last week. However, even though there was a holiday here in the US, the intrepid FreeSWITCH development team was working hard on your behalf. As Ken Rice previously mentioned, Anthony spotted a potential issue in the recently released 1.2.5 version. Therefore, this past Saturday they made 1.2.5.1 available<http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.2.5.1.tar.bz2>for us. Many thanks to those who work so hard to make sure that FreeSWITCH is running smoothly for us all. On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_11_21>we spent some time getting everyone up to speed on how to edit the FreeSWITCH wiki <http://wiki.freeswitch.org>, specifically focusing on channel variables <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Channel_Variables> pages. Updating documentation is one of the least glamorous aspects of maintaining an open source project. Many thanks to those who've stepped up over the past weeks and months to help us out. With the end of the year upon us we are slowing down a bit in our speaking schedule for the weekly community conference call. We have a few things in the works but nothing yet scheduled. On this week's call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_11_28>we will be doing a community scrum. Be sure to bring your questions and topics for discussion. If you have a tip or trick that you'd like to share with the group that would be most welcomed. If time permits we will crowdsource a few selected questions from the mailing list. Have a great week and we'll talk to you on Wednesday. -- 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 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Happy short week to those of you in North America! The weekly FreeSWITCH news and notes took a hiatus while I was out on a medical leave. I am happy to report that I am back to work and recovering nicely. Many thanks to those who sent their well-wishes and happy thoughts. We have a great community and I am glad to be a part of it! On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_11_14> we covered some Linux/FreeSWITCH install and configuration tips. A special thanks to Ken Rice for giving us some practical information on many of the useful files and utility items that are available in the FreeSWITCH source tree and how to implement them, including FreeSWITCH init scripts<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/browse/freeswitch.git/build/freeswitch.init.r…>, Anthony's .emacs file<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/browse/freeswitch.git/support-d/.emacs?hb=true>, and even a monit <http://mmonit.com/monit/> configuration example<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/browse/freeswitch.git/build/freeswitch.monitr…>. I hope you found these items as useful as I did. We recently released FreeSWITCH 1.2.4 and Ken Rice tells me that more updates are in the works. More information will be available on this week's conference call <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_11_21>. This week I will be presenting a Wiki how-to: adding a channel variable page<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Variable_skeleton>. This will be especially useful because it illustrates a number of Mediawiki<http://www.mediawiki.org/> concepts. Also, we have a lot of missing channel variables so if everyone picks one or two to add we'll be able to expand the wiki coverage. 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 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Hello again! Another busy week in the land of FreeSWITCH. As you know we have been doing some work on the FreeSWITCH project's infrastructure. We are happy to report that this work is essentially complete. Thank you for your patience in this process. We've experienced intermittent outages but thanks to the efforts of Brian West and Raymond Chandler these have been kept to a minimum. We also thank Ken Rice for his hard work during this time. His knowledge and experience have been invaluable. Last week we had a very interesting discussion<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_10_17>from Chad Engler about his nodesl <https://github.com/englercj/node-esl> library - a connector between node.js and ESL <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Esl>. Chad describes himself as a Web developer learning the telephony side of things. However, we were all impressed with how much knowledge he had with using ESL given the relatively short amount of time he's been working with it. This week<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_10_24>we will be looking in on some Windows-centric ways of handling real-time data and related PBX items. The following week, on October 31, we will be hearing from our friends over at Redshift Networks<http://www.redshiftnetworks.com/>. They will be giving us close-up look at some of the worldwide SIP attacks that are being perpetrated against FreeSWITCH and other IP telephony servers. On a personal note I would like to thank everyone who volunteered to be a technical reviewer of the new edition of the FreeSWITCH book<https://www.packtpub.com/freeswitch-1-0-6-build-robust-high-performance-tel…>. I was overwhelmed with just how many people who are willing to volunteer their time. Packt Publishing will be contacting those who've been selected for this important job. This is a great community and we are all glad to be a part of it. Take care and 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 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Greetings everyone! As you may know the FreeSWITCH team is continuing to update the project's infrastructure. Among other things this includes getting ready for IPv6<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6>. Last week Brian West finished getting several of our servers all set up to handle IPv6 traffic. These includes www.freeswitch.org and conference.freeswitch.org. Thank you to all those who did testing and gave us valuable feedback. On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_10_10>we enjoyed our very own Ken Rice <http://www.cluecon.com/speaker/92/> giving us some great reminders on how to gather data for troubleshooting as well as tips on opening bug reports in Jira <http://jira.freeswitch.org>. We had a number of users comment on how useful it was to see examples of how to do this. The audio is up in the usual location<http://torrents.freeswitch.org/conf_call_2012-10-10.torrent>and we have a community member who is preparing a video which will be posted as soon as it is ready. This week we have Chad Engler from Patlive <http://www.patlive.com> coming to discuss with us his node-esl library. Chad has made the code available here <https://github.com/englercj/node-esl> on Github. He has included an interesting channel monitor example to give you an idea of what can be done by combining node.js with ESL. We look forward to hearing more about it on this week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_10_17> . Have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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