[Freeswitch-dev] OSTAG - Open Source Telephony Action Group
Good news! The Open Source Telephony Action Group (OSTAG) is almost ready to become an official 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We need to raise $800 in order to file the necessary paperwork. We have set up a PayPal account where we can all send our donations: donations@ostag.org Please assist us in moving this important organization forward. OSTAG is dedicated to the advancement of open source telecommuncations software that improves the lives of people all over the world. This is a most worthy cause! Please help now and in the future. -Michael
I would like to thank everyone that has donated to this cause. The money has been collected for the Open Source Telephony Advancement Group (I think Collins had a brain flub up). Thanks, /b On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
Good news!
The Open Source Telephony Action Group (OSTAG) is almost ready to become an official 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We need to raise $800 in order to file the necessary paperwork. We have set up a PayPal account where we can all send our donations:
donations@ostag.org
Please assist us in moving this important organization forward. OSTAG is dedicated to the advancement of open source telecommuncations software that improves the lives of people all over the world. This is a most worthy cause! Please help now and in the future.
-Michael
Brian, What exactly is the purpose with OSTAG? Also - is this a FS activity, or a joint activity supported by Asterisk, Yate etc? Jan _____ From: freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian West Sent: 3. juni 2010 21:22 To: freeswitch-dev@lists.freeswitch.org Cc: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-dev] OSTAG - Open Source Telephony Action Group I would like to thank everyone that has donated to this cause. The money has been collected for the Open Source Telephony Advancement Group (I think Collins had a brain flub up). Thanks, /b On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Michael Collins wrote: Good news! The Open Source Telephony Action Group (OSTAG) is almost ready to become an official 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We need to raise $800 in order to file the necessary paperwork. We have set up a PayPal account where we can all send our donations: donations@ostag.org Please assist us in moving this important organization forward. OSTAG is dedicated to the advancement of open source telecommuncations software that improves the lives of people all over the world. This is a most worthy cause! Please help now and in the future. -Michael
"The Open Source Telephony Advancement Group - is committed to the support of open source telephony projects of all kinds. Voice and data communications are critical for people in all walks of life and in all locations around the world. OSTAG seeks to improve the quality and affordability of communications for persons everywhere. To that end we support the continued work on many open source telecommunications projects that meet the needs of people in both developed and developing locations." The core FreeSWITCH team (Brian, Mike and Tony) spearheaded the group and the core FreeSWITCH team doesn't sit on the board but Michael Collins and Raymond Chandler along with My Sister Melanie West-Clarke are the board members. My sister has extensive experience in running an Non-Profit organization and is now a stay at home mom and wanted to have something to do and this was a perfect fit for her skill set. Michael and Raymond know open source voice really well so they were a great choice to sit on the board to help guide it on the right path. I'm sure the board will tap into the community to accept input on direction and projects to help support. Its going to run similar to the Apache Foundation. I'm just a huge cheer leader now.... I can't wait to see what this organization can do for the world. Can you imagine being able to fund a truly open source PRI and SS7 stacks and how that would level the playing field? /b On Jun 3, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Jan Berger wrote:
Brian,
What exactly is the purpose with OSTAG?
Also – is this a FS activity, or a joint activity supported by Asterisk, Yate etc?
Jan
Actually its Open Source Telephony Advancement Group The goal is to build a nonprofit org that can draw grants and donations to pay for the development of open source projects. That would include new libraries (have a few ideas such as a portaudio replacement and a liberally licensed robust xmpp lib) or it could be adding features to other open source projects such as those you listed. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Berger <jan.berger@video24.no> wrote:
Brian,
What exactly is the purpose with OSTAG?
Also – is this a FS activity, or a joint activity supported by Asterisk, Yate etc?
Jan ------------------------------
*From:* freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto: freeswitch-dev-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Brian West *Sent:* 3. juni 2010 21:22 *To:* freeswitch-dev@lists.freeswitch.org *Cc:* freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-dev] OSTAG - Open Source Telephony Action Group
I would like to thank everyone that has donated to this cause. The money has been collected for the Open Source Telephony Advancement Group (I think Collins had a brain flub up).
Thanks,
/b
On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
Good news!
The Open Source Telephony Action Group (OSTAG) is almost ready to become an official 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We need to raise $800 in order to file the necessary paperwork. We have set up a PayPal account where we can all send our donations:
donations@ostag.org
Please assist us in moving this important organization forward. OSTAG is dedicated to the advancement of open source telecommuncations software that improves the lives of people all over the world. This is a most worthy cause! Please help now and in the future.
-Michael
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Anthony Minessale
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Brian West
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Jan Berger
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Michael Collins