… However, while the above are fairly important (who am I kidding, these are very important – these make for 80% of the experience), another aspect of the experience is usually totally neglected – and that 20% sometimes makes for 25% of your services customer calls.

…What makes a project big or small? how do you quantify the price/charge for a specific project? – and most importantly, what is the nominal value a project may carry – in order for the customer to do the project on one hand and with my company on the other hand…

On the 13th of October, during the pre-conference events I’ll be teaching a full day class of Amazon EC2 and Asterisk integration.

I’ve grown fairly accustomed to the fact that most Open Source projects tend to have a poor documentation. Sure, if you look at the code itself, you’ll find a plethora of code documentation, explaining how certain pieces of the code work, however, when it comes to operational documentation – that portion lacks tremendously.

I recently gave a presentation at the Amoocon convention, held in Rostock, Germany – about Asterisk and Amazon EC2. Below is a medium quality video of that presentation:

or you may download it here:
Amazon EC2 and Asterisk video files

It would appear that my previous post had attracted some feedback from Anthony Minessale, the founder and prime maintainer of the FreeSWITCH project. As Anthony took the time to write some words and I found these of importance, I’ve decided to dedicate a full blog post for this.

I really love the open source world, it always keeps us on our toes and always peeking around the closest corner, trying to understand what is the next step around. As I’m attending the last day of the Amoocon conference, located in Rostock, Germany – I came to the realization that while each project tries to present itself as the best choice – that isn’t always true. The multitude of projects and solution proves just one thing – there is no perfect solution.

You’re probably wondering to yourself: “That’s odd, GreenfieldTech is an Asterisk/Open Source oriented – what does SEO/SEM has to do with Asterisk and Open Source?” – the answer is simple, EVERYTHING!

Doing business in Israel is always interesting, you’re always amazed at how people are completely ignorant of what Intellectual Property and Licensing really means – especially when related to Open Source licensing and rights issues.

Many people ask me: “Is Asterisk certification really important? does it actually mean anything? isn’t the knowledge of Asterisk in itself enough for customers and employers?” – to sum it up in one word: NO !