SIP Communicator And More Tales (Plus Lessons) From Google Summer of Code Adventures

Emil Ivov, of SIP Communicator and GSoC (Google Summer Of Code) Mentor continues his quest to enlighten us about GSoC projects based on SIP Communicator with the second part, I think mistakenly marked as part one. We spoke about the first part in SIP Communicator And Other Tales From Google Summer of Code Adventures: Part One.

Emil lists three more projects, Geek Communicator, "Dude, checkout my photo!", and DTMF with RTP which were focused on console based SIP Communicator, Settiong your own Avatar and providing an alternative transport for DTMF tones in audio RTP streams respectively. They were all very important projects as the ones we mentioned earlier. I particularly liked the Geek Communicator as most of the time I end up working on consoles only
But what what caught my attention most were the lessons learned through mentoring projects.
If you are thinking of being a mentor, or a GSoC student member, there are some very valuable gems. Read it bookmark it or do what ever you do with a good post.

Google Open Source Blog: SIP Communicator's Summer of Code Adventures: Part One

http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/

Asterisk At Google Summer Of Code 2009

http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Russell Bryant has put forward an idea to involve Asterisk At the upcoming Google Summer Of Code 2009. He initially posted to the Asterisk Dev list and followed up with this blog post asking for ideas and suggestions. The Mailing list post received a lot of responses and Russell has moved the document (google-soc2009-ideas.txt) to new home (ideas.txt)
The document is already filled with programming ideas in six categories and yet open for suggestions. So just to learn of to provide input, please folle the above links. Also think about being mentors to the programmers!

The six sections are;

1. new interfaces for developers to interface with Asterisk.
2. Voicemail support in Asterisk
3. Asterisk console and logging interfaces.
4. Internationalization.
5. Operating System Portability.
6. Asterisk Security
I think it is a supper idea and certainly will promote Asterisk.

Tags: Asterisk, google summer of code, GSOC, Asterisk GSOC, Asterisk interfaces, Voicemail in Asterisk, Asterisk console, Asterisk logging interfaces, Asterisk Internationalization, OS Portability, Asterisk Security