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ITEXPO 2020

Posted Feb 21, 2020. ~1min read.

Had a great time visiting with members of the open source VoIP community in Fort Lauderdale for open source world / itexpo 2020.

I was excited to discuss Kamailio and other aspects of communication as well as get some important hardware discussions in person… it’s an interesting time as hardware and software vendors seem to be merging left and right.

Goodbye Citibank

Posted Jan 30, 2020. ~4min read.

In 1990, while a freshman at UF (Go Gators!), I applied for and received my first credit card. The card, from Citibank, was a “college special” with a whopping credit limit of $600.00 and fees/penalties as high as the Federal Government would allow.

This said, there was no yearly fee and I knew at the ripe age of 18 that if I paid my balance on time, my cost was 0.00. Granted, I didn’t have much money (like generally a bank account of 200.00 or so) and got the card in case I needed food and didn’t have the cash.

Coming Soon: ITEXPO

Posted Jan 30, 2020. ~1min read.

From February 11th through 15th, 2020, Open Source World (or open source summit?) will be colocated at ITEXPO 2020 in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

This year, I will be speaking the gospel of Kamailio with a presentation entitled, “Using Kamailio to Secure Your Communications” (currently scheduled for February 13th at 3pm).

Go vs Node

Posted Nov 18, 2019. ~2min read.

I’m not a programmer. Never tried to pass myself off as one — which made for a really, really awkward interview once… but that’s another story.

Anyway, I’ve been creating “APIs” in Perl for a while using Perl CGI on NGINX. It’s not a REST API whatsoever, but I enjoy scripting in Perl and (1) got the job done, (2) was fast, and (3) no learning curve.

Astricon 2019 Thoughts

Posted Nov 1, 2019. ~4min read.

TL;DR A few weeks ago, I had some strong concerns over Sangoma’s stewardship of Asterisk and FreePBX. Since that post, Astricon showed that Sangoma definitely appreciates the open source VoIP community and I’m optimistic for the future.

I, along with 300+ others, attended Astricon 2019 during the last week of October in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s Astricon differed dramatically from others — there was no expo hall, fewer presentations, fewer tracks.

Fred and Dan on ClueCon Weekly

Posted Nov 1, 2019. ~1min read.

A special spooky episode of ClueCon Weekly with guests Fred Posner and Dan Jenkins! When Open Source is under attack gasp.

Kamailio on FLOSS Weekly

Posted Nov 1, 2019. ~1min read.

Did you catch Fred Posner on FLOSS Weekly discussing Kamailio?

FLOSS all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Hosted by Randal Schwartz and his rotating panel of co-hosts every Wednesday as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.

Kindness and Weakness

Posted Oct 16, 2019. ~1min read.

Famous Al Capone quote on mistaking kindness for weakness.

Sangoma Doesn’t Get Open Source

Posted Sep 25, 2019. ~4min read.

So, earlier today (2019-09-24), Sangoma tweeted the following:

If you don’t know, just over a year ago, Sangoma acquired Digium, the creators of Asterisk (which Sangoma called “the most widely used open source communication software in the world”). Sangoma is also the owner of FreePBX, “the most widely deployed open source PBX platform in use across the world.”

Automation: Quality In / Quality Out

Posted Jan 23, 2019. ~2min read.

The high cost of poor automation? Recently, an automated call from my utility department served as a great example of automation gone wrong.