Kamailio (OpenSER) 2008 Awards

Second edition of the awards, with a different project name and new categories. The projects grows, therefore the eco-system is bigger. 2008 had some unpleasant surprises, but also lot of good things happened. They are the subject of this post. Like last year most of the categories got two winners, listed in alphabetic order.
Blogging:

• Alberto Sagredo – Spanish blog about all things around VoIP, carefully reflecting the important news about Kamailio (OpenSER) project. Web link: http://voipnovatos.es/
• Jesus Rodriguez – again, very good covering of Kamailio (OpenSER) evolution in the Spanish community. Web link: http://www.jerocu.net/wordpress/

Related projects:

• SIP-Router.org – newly launched collaboration initiative between Kamailio (OpenSER) and SIP Express Router (SER). Gathering together the developers of the two SIP servers, SIP-Router offers the reliability for a long term project development, providing the best features from both applications. Web Link: http://sip-router.org
• WeSIP – SIP and HTTP Convergent Java Application Server developed by Voztelecom. Day by day, building innovative services and integration with Web2.0 becomes more and more important for SIP world. Wesip is one of the tools that allows you quick development of Java applications for VoIP and SIP. Web link: http://www.wesip.eu

New Contributions:

• htable – new module that adds support for a generic cache system in configuration file. Developed by one of Kamailio (OpenSER) co-founders, Elena-Ramona Modroiu, the module can be used to avoid extensive database hits or to store data from different sources (e.g., SIP messages) in memory for long time and share among processes. Web link: http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/htable.html
• dialoginfo presence support – two new modules that enhances the presence server to handle Event Dialog as per RFC 4235. Developed by Klaus Darilion, member of management board of the project. Web link: http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/presence_dialoginfo.html

Technical Support:

• Adam Linford – again, very supportive on Kamailio (OpenSER) web forum hosted by VoIP User. Web link: http://www.voipuser.org
• Inaki Baz Castillo – very active member on project’s mailing lists. Recently he has become a registered developer, publishing the module ‘regex‘.

Advocating:

• Henning Westerholt – active participation with talks and presentations to many events related to the project, many times sponsored by himself. He has become member of Kamailio (OpenSER) management board during 2008.
• Juha Heinanen – for his entire activity inside project and web space: management, code contribution, web interviews. He is member of Kamailio (OpenSER) management board.

Events:

• A1 Innovation Days – enthusiastic development spring hosted by A1 (Austrian Mobile Operator) to write extensions based on and using open source applications. Web link: http://www.a1innovations.at/
• Asterisk Tag – German-European event primarily focusing on Asterisk PBX, having guests from leading open source VoIP projects. Web link: http://www.asterisk-tag.org.

Products and services:

• 1&1 – the biggest ever heard VoIP platform based on Kamailio (OpenSER) – by now, over 2 millions SIP users and billions of minutes routed per month. Web link (March release): http://www.ilocus.com/2008/03/the_largest_voip_offering_base.html
• SipWise – Kamailio (OpenSER)-based appliances, targeting SIP providers as well as SIP carriers. You get all in one rack – plug-and-play. Web link: http://www.sipwise.com

New business initiatives:

• Evariste Systems – A provider of engineering and systems integration solutions in the VoIP service provider and carrier space. Web link: http://www.evaristesys.com
• VoIP Embedded – consulting company specialised in providing custom VoIP SIP based solutions. Web link: http://www.voipembedded.com

This is it for 2008. If you want to check the last year top, visit:
http://miconda.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/openser-2007-awards
New suggestions and comments are welcome as always.