[ Thanks to Greg
Youngblood for this announcement. ]
(LinuxTelephony,
August 11, 1999) Vovida
Networks has agreed to sponsor a person to represent
Open-Source considerations on the International Softswitch
Consortium, and it’s time to elect that
representative.
Voting
started at 8:00am PDT August 10, 1999 and will run until midnight
PDT August 12, 1999.
There are five (5) candidates up for this election. Here’s a
summary of who they are and their background.
Ken Hendrickson Ken is an amateur radio
operator, and his prime interest lies in using this type of
software over RF links. He is very interested in implementing Open
Source software for digital telephony. He is also an experienced
Linux user, having used Linux since version .95. Ken holds an
Electrical Engineer degree from USC.
Stephen C. Nodvin, Ph.D. Stephen is an
independent consultant/ contractor in the VoIP area, who has four
years of R&D experience. He feels he has a lot to offer and
could bring much “vision to the position.”
Craig Southern Craig has been involved in
the development and promotion of Linux for many years. He wrote the
original 3Com 3c505 driver for the Linux kernel and has promoted
and advocated Linux since the days of the floppy .99.1 releases!
Craig has also been involved in Linux groups and has recently
developed a business that uses Linux in its everyday operations.
The concept of supporting Linux and Open Source community on
industry forums such as SoftSwitch has been a continuing goal for
Craig.
David Sugar David has been one of the
earliest and most consistently involved in the development of
telephony under Linux. He has contributed many telephony
applications into the community, such as integration servers, VoIP
and streaming frameworks, IVR and gateway software. All of these
are generally licensed under GPL and disseminated in as wide a
manner as possible for the purpose of encouraging other development
in Linux telephony and education of the development community as
whole on the methods for developing telephony services under
Linux.
Randy Wright Randy is currently attending
New York University where he is studying to be a computer
programmer. Randy has a strong interest in Linux, networking
programming and Kernel level programming.