I wonder if money can be saved from other roles and diverted into development and QA. I am willing to save the project THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
I volunteer to come rename topics and split topics for no cost. If required I can also be passive aggressive and give short non useful answers. I will do this all for FREE.
As a bonus I will handle all the flags without complaints even if people are “abusing” them. Because hey sometimes people just want attention and can’t afford their own puppy. We will show the community that love for FREE
@ncorbic@mwhite you can be the all-star in the next executive meeting by getting that budget down.
Wanted to highlight the second part of #1 below regarding the FreePBX Issue Tracker on GitHub and show some gratitude to all the members of the community who contribute there as well as helping others out on the forums. Thank you!
One of the simplest ways to contribute is by using FreePBX and providing feedback.
Feedback given on the forum has been highly discouraged when it doesn’t conform, so to speak. No need to elaborate. There are probably ten other threads that convey this. But I will say that it does not seem like “one of the simplest ways to contribute” right now. Please, listen more to the community in order to foster more and better feedback.
Submit bug reports
This process works well. Thank you to the dev team.
If you’re a developer or entrepreneur, consider creating products or modules that complement FreePBX. … Partner with Sangoma to expose your module to a broader audience.
I worked with a few other open source contributors to produce an SMS module, which was well received by the community and undoubtedly brought some revenues to Sangoma in softphone sales. (I say this with firsthand knowledge) A free module that encourages purchase of Sangoma commercial licenses seems like a no-brainer for inclusion in the FreePBX module repository but it was not welcome. Perhaps the qualifications could be laid out better.
Some might theorize, in this case, that it wasn’t welcome because Sangoma has a commercial SMS module that requires SIPStation/VI services (also Sangoma channels). Therefore offering a free SMS module takes away from the carrier channels revenue.
Just as if a free transcript module was introduced under the same logic (allowing multiple vendors to be supported and used) it wouldn’t be added to the module repo because it would interfere with Scribe now.
I think it’s a little more complicated than that. The SMS module isn’t for any particular integration; it forms a subsystem allowing SMS to flow through FreePBX and other modules have to hook into it. In fact there’s no SMS-for-SIPstation module or SMS-for-VI… it’s just part of those services. Strictly speaking, our open source module is unique in providing this connectivity layer and doesn’t compete with their carrier channel. Indirectly, yes… it gives a way for people to use third party SMS services and not Sangoma’s.
But you get what you pay for, right? Use SMS Connector (free + cost of SMSes from your favorite provider) and have a DIY experience or pay for SIPStation or VI and have smoother integration and provisioning. No different from someone buying a license of Sangoma Connect which gives a smooth provisioning experience vs. $10 for Acrobits Groundwire – which is the same softphone – but you have to do all the fiddly configuration work yourself.
My point is that like third-party softphones, the third-party connector module is no threat. That doesn’t mean they have to welcome the module into their repo but it’s a lousy reason to deny it.
And It will continue to do so if you @penguinpbx stop trying to impose your newly minted suppressive rules on a platform many of us have contributed to for years.
Not following you there, sorry. The FreePBX Forums Code of Conduct (last updated in September) was adapted from the Asterisk Forums CoC which in turn was from the Discourse (default) CoC.
Another Non-sequitur . who are you not following and if you didn’t agree with or understand the argument, why didn’t you just delete the post or just ban the poster as per your norm.