Linux and Telephony

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

Hey guys,

At the last Fairview Heights SILUG meeting, Ken brought up the topic of
Linux on Telephony systems. So, when I saw this post looking for
volunteers to work on such a beast, some of you might be interested ;-)

-Kara

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> Bayonne is a fairly established and ambitious free software project who's
> goal, along with that of the larger GNU Telephony Project, GNUCOMM, is to
> provide community supported scalable free software based telephony
> solutions that are useful for individuals, for the small office and large
> commercial enterprise, and for commercial carriers, that can displace the
> proprietary solutions commonly used in the telecom industry today.  In
> addition to being a GNU package and a part of GNUCOMM, Bayonne is also
> represented within the GNU Enterprise project.
>
> Bayonne primarily focuses on voice response and what is commonly called a
> telephony "application server".  Bayonne is written in C++, has a fully
> threaded architecture, and is bound together by a common scripting core
> and DSO plugins.  Other parts of GNUCOMM will focus on many related and
> useful areas in providing a complete free software telephony solution.
>
> Bayonne has recently reached release 0.5.17.  This release represents a
> fairly stable and functional multi-line voice response telephony server
> that already works with a fair number of single and multi-line analog (and
> soon digital) telephony cards available under GNU/Linux, and that can be
> made to support Voicetronix hardware under FreeBSD.  However, there are
> still many areas of development that have not yet been addressed.
>
> While Bayonne is useful today, we are certainly looking to extend Bayonne
> functionality in many additional areas.  Since we already have an abstract
> interface for "telephony cards", support for entirely softswitch based
> sessions will be added alongside traditional multi-line telephony cards
> for use in the next generation telephone network, using projects like
> openh323 and vovida as the base for these new services.  This is just one
> of many areas for potential and original development available within
> Bayonne.
>
> In issuing a call for volunteers, we are looking for more people to
> contribute to development of the Bayonne package, both in specific niches
> that have been identified, and in any other places people may identify and
> wish to contribute on their own.
>
> Currently, we both have, and need, people to volunteer with development in
> several broadly defined areas.  Some of these areas are already covered to
> a limited degree, but certainly can use help and input from additional
> people, and in all areas new contributors can still have a substantial
> impact on Bayonne development.
>
> Current active areas of development include redundancy and telephony
> cluster server farming, XML scripting, Bayonne plugins, integrating FAX,
> TTS, and ASR services, CORBA, more telephony drivers, and IP trunking.
> Other areas that we need volunteers for include documentation, packaging,
> web development, porting, application development, and voice library
> management.
>
> This list is not fixed, but represents how I currently divide Bayonne
> development.  If people have something different and interesting to
> contribute to the package, or even wish to take on a specific challenge in
> the broader GNUCOMM project, that would always be welcome as well.
> Those interested can start by joining the Bayonne mailing list by sending
> e-mail to bayonne-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the body of
> the message being "subscribe", or by sending e-mail to me directly,
> dyfet@gnu.org
>

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