Changes at Sangoma
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Andrew Nagy @tm1000 just announced he is leaving Sangoma
https://www.freepbx.org/an-open-source-journey/Tony Lewis, the COO, left on April 30
https://community.freepbx.org/t/thank-you-all/57302Not too worried as the Digium purchase should result in change like this on a small scale. This is only one C level and one developer. Just visible because they both were active on the FreePBX community.
Just something I try to keep aware of.
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One of our biggest worries is that the open source VoIP community will become too consolidated. I hope that Sangoma buying Digium doesn't squeeze out the little guy - we want this community to grow and flourish and not be controlled by a few large companies.
[edit] I'm not saying Sangoma buying Digium will do that - but it is something that I worry about happening over the next decade (with more than just Asterisk)
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Isabella can hedge that a lot. A handful of people helping there coukd do a lot.
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@scottalanmiller Same with VitalPBX and FusionPBX.
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@Skyetel and Wazo
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@Skyetel said in Changes at Sangoma:
One of our biggest worries is that the open source VoIP community will become too consolidated. I hope that Sangoma buying Digium doesn't squeeze out the little guy - we want this community to grow and flourish and not be controlled by a few large companies.
Except Digium and Sangoma have no overlap in the open source market. Digium is only Asterisk and Sangoma is only FreePBX.
Digium has Switchvox for a commercial product, and Sangoma has gateways, phones, and FreePBX commercial modules.
FreePBX (Sangoma) cannot exist without Asterisk (Digium).
So a consolidation of opensource options is not a major concern of mine.
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@scottalanmiller said in Changes at Sangoma:
Isabella can hedge that a lot. A handful of people helping there coukd do a lot.
Not if it is as bad as Elastix.
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@scottalanmiller said in Changes at Sangoma:
@Skyetel and Wazo
This still has potential but I'm not sure where it is now. I have not tested it out in more than a year.
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@JaredBusch said in Changes at Sangoma:
@scottalanmiller said in Changes at Sangoma:
@Skyetel and Wazo
This still has potential but I'm not sure where it is now. I have not tested it out in more than a year.
No release since March, 2018. So you've not missed anything.
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@JaredBusch don't forget I left at the end of last year, and I'm now working with Tony at his new business Clearly IP.
One of the awesome things about GPL code is what I tweeted recently - https://twitter.com/xrobau/status/1126587963242999809 - if it's GPL, it's yours forever, basically.
I can also happily say that Clearly IP is not doing anything with FreePBX (at the moment, anyway) - I will personally still be looking after the Firewall module, on phonebo.cx, but that's about the limit of our involvement.
We have a bunch of cool ideas planned, and if you're friends with me on facebook (I'm xrobau there, too - of course) it won't take much brain sweat to figure out what that is, even though it's TECHNICALLY confidential.
There are also other people that are leaving/left - I know that David Duffet and Matt Jordan are public knowledge. I'm not sure how many of the other resignations have been made public yet, so I'm not going to say anything about them
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@xrobau well make sure to make some announcements here when you are free to do so!
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Going to lock up the thread just for a minute so that Jared's sub-thread on FreeNAS and ZFS can be its own topic as it is unrelated to Sangoma, will unlock in just a minute.
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Okay, if you want to talk storage, it's over here:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19657/revisiting-zfs-and-freenas-in-2019
