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Are you interested in making a donation to SIPfoundry? We have a Paypal account established to receive donations from our SIPfoundry User Community. You can visit www.paypal.com and our SIPfoundry account is linked to the following email address (donations@ezuce.com). Thanks for your continued support we appreciate it.
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Written by Michael Picher, a networking and sipXecs expert for years and a respected contributor to the sipXecs community. Mike now works with eZuce. Order here
Welcome to SIPfoundry, the leading open source UC Community
SIPfoundry is the home of the sipXecs open source unified communications and collaboration project. If you are looking to replace your aging (IP) PBX with an all software modern communications solution that scales to mid-size and large enterprise and can be deployed in the cloud, look no further. A fast growing list of large enterprise use our solution as an alternative to expensive systems from vendors such as Avaya, Cisco, and Microsoft. If you are an organization with many hundred or even thousands of branch offices distributed geographically, we can help centralize your communcations infrastrucutre into a data center with geographic redundancy, seamless failover, and a robust and easy to manage system that scales to your needs.
We are a community of experts dedicated to the development of SIP and XMPP based communications solutions. Founded in 2004 as an independent 501(3)c not-for-profit corporation based in Massachusetts, SIPfoundry is governed by an independent board of directors. SIPfoundry is open an invites all interested parties to cooperate and collaborate. While the sipXecs project is the largest active project at SIPfoundry, we are open to making available our infrastructure to other interested projects. sipXes is developed by eZuce and a commercial enterprise edition of the sipXecs solution is available from eZuce with full support, software maintenance, training, indemnification, and other services.
SIPfoundry 2012 Steering Committee
Congratulations to our SIPfoundry 2012 Steering Committee members for being nominated by their peers and colleagues within the SIPfoundry user community. On behalf of the Steering Committee we encourage you to get involved in the planning for next year's event and share your ideas and suggestions on how together we can make it a successful conference for all. Please feel free to contact the Steering Committee members directly or you can send a request to info@sipfoundry.org for more details.
| | Todd Hodgen founded Misiu Systems LLC in 2002. Originally started as a product development firm, Mr. Hodgen holds patents for three wireless products developed by Misiu Systems. In recent years, the company has been reshaped to take advantage of his career spanning 35 year in the telecommunications services industry. He has previously held positions and gained experience in most aspects of the industry, including installation, service and support, sales, engineering, product development, project management, management as well as twice owning successful companies that deployed telecommunications products and services. In Sales and Engineering, Mr. Hodgen had responsibility for selling and engineering voice and data products to enterprise accounts, and vertical sales to Government, Healthcare, Wireless and EDU. His ability to think "outside the box" has benefitted his customers with cost effective, yet first class advanced communications systems to improve employee productivity and the customers bottom line. Currently, as President of Misiu Systems LLC, he is actively participating in the development and sales of networking and communications strategies to SMB, GOV and EDU with the use of open source voice and data platforms for the company's customers. Utilizing years of experience, he enjoys working on integration of disparate network products into advanced unified messaging delivery systems. Originally from Reno, Nevada, he is a 1977 graduate of Wyoming Technical College. He and his wife Margaret have been married for 14 years. He is the proud father of three grown sons. Contact: t.hodgen@misiusystems.com / www.MisiuSystems.com |
| | Recruited by a national carrier from his position at a multi-state financial services firm concentrating in IBM mainframe and communications, Tony worked as a data specialist for one of the largest US facilities based carriers (LDDS, now MCI). After deciding to focus on microcomputing technology, he worked for a Virginia based consulting and services firm, which he helped to grow before they were purchased by a national firm. After establishing and selling a regional CLEC in Virginia, Tony has focused on data services. His growing consulting practice, myITdepartment, helps commercial businesses, including CLEC's and multiregional firms, to properly identify emerging technologies such as VoIP and SaaS so they can more easily adapt to changing business trends. These emerging trends include cloud-controlled security appliances and network switching platforms. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Lisa and their three daughters, and enjoys saltwater fishing, especially on the Northern Neck of the Chesapeake Bay with friends and family as often as he can. myITdepartment has assisted firms on 5 continents with installing and maintaining sipXecs and has been active within sipfoundry since the "Pingtel" era. Contact tgraziano@myitdepartment.net / www.myitdepartment.net |
| | Kyle Haefner grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. In 2002 he completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and promptly joined the Peace Corp and started volunteering as an IT advisor for the Ministry of Education in Kingston, Jamaica. Upon returning home in 2004 he started a computer science program and received his master's degree in 2009, focusing his thesis research on applying a trust model to the SIP protocol designed to prevent Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT). For the last seven years he has been working on open source telephony projects at Colorado State University. When not working, Kyle enjoys everything the Fort Collins area has to offer;hiking, biking, snow boarding and spending time with his two sons. Contact: kyle.haefner@colostate.edu / www.colostate.edu |
| | Matt White is a Senior Partner with Summit Technology. A veteran in Enterprise IT industry, he has held key technical consulting roles with various MNCs in the past 16 years. Prior to joining Summit, he was with a global solutions partner, serving as Senior Global Solutions Architect. With his wide background, Matt is able to draw upon his experiences from software development, systems integration to ICT infrastructure management to provide an out-of-the box holistic view of the latest trends in ICT infrastructure virtualization and VOIP. Contact: mwhite@thesummit-grp.com/ www.thesummit-grp.com |
SIPfoundry Steering Committee Meetings
Join the SIPfoundry Steering Committee meetings as we meet on the third Thursday of each month to discuss our planning efforts for the 2013 sipX CoLab Users Conference along with topics of interest submitted by our community members. Now is the time to get involved and be a part of the industry's leading open source community to share your ideas, suggestions, and recommendations for building our community through ongoing collaboration and contributions to the sipXecs project.
Oour Next Meeting: Thursday June 21, 2013 @ 1:00PM EDT
Join link: http://conference.colostate.edu/bigbluebutton/joinMeeting.jsp?mID=464
Password: sipx
Voice Bridge: 970-491-4400 ext. 70001
Recent Webinar Recordings
SIPfoundry On Demand Webinar Series (replays)
May 16, 2012
SIPfoundry Q2 Update Webinar
February 15, 2012
SIPfoundry Q1 Update Webinar
December 6, 2011
Why Open Unified Communications for EDU with AudioCodes
November 16, 2011
SIPfoundry Q4 Update Webinar
September 14, 2011
SIPfoundry Q3 Update Webinar
May 5, 2011
eZuce and Ronco Deliver Affordable Open Communications for ACUTA Members
February 23, 2011
SIPfoundry Q1 2011 Update
January 18, 2011
'Enhance Your Communications Experience: Migrating Your Legacy PBX to UC' please click here.
December 9, 2010
‘Experience Unified Communications Made for EDU by EDU' please click here.
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