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FYI – I’ll be out at O’Reilly’s OSCON next week in Portland talking about voice mashups…


OSCON 2008

If any of you reading this will be out at O’Reilly’s OSCON Open Source Convention next week (July 21-25) in Portland, Oregon, I (Dan York) will be there giving a talk on Wednesday on “Mashing Up Voice and the Web Through Open Source and XML“. Here’s the abstract:

With over 4.5 billion mobile and fixed phones out there as of November 2007, the phone represents the most ubiquitous user interface out there. As “mashups” on the Web let us quickly and easily access information from multiple data sources, how do we extend those mashups to the world of the phone? How do we bring the old world of voice and telephony into the new world of the Web, social networks, and social media? And how do we do that using open source tools and open standards?

If any of you will be attending, please do drop me a note as I always enjoy meeting up with people who read this blog. If you are not attending but are interested, it’s not too late… you can still register at the OSCON site. Should be a great convention for those interested in open source development. The schedule is pretty amazing as it truly has a collection of some of the best folks out there in the open source world. (The convention starts on Wednesday with Monday and Tuesday being for tutorials.) I’m definitely looking forward to the event!

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Blue Box SE#025 – An interview with Eric Hernaez about Solegy and the OpenSBC Project

Synopsis:  Blue Box Special Edition #25: An interview with Eric Hernaez, CEO of Solegy, about the OpenSBC project

Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast Special Edition #25, a 13-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar covering VoIP security news, comments and opinions.   

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Show Content:

solegylogo.jpgIn this interview, I sat down with Eric Hernaez, CEO of Solegy, to talk about the OpenSBC Project and how it provides an open source implementation of a session border controller (SBC).  We talked about how OpenSBC came about, who is using it, how scalable it is and where users can learn more.  We also discussed Solegy, the company supporting the open source OpenSBC project and what they are doing. It was an enjoyable talk that really came about randomly when I met Eric near the press room at IT Expo in Los Angeles back in September 2007. We had been wanting to learn more about the OpenSBC project so I put my recorder on a table and we started talking.

More information about the OpenSBC project and other open source SIP-related projects can be found at opensourcesip.org.

Production assistance on this Special Edition was provided by Sergio Meinardi.

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