Kamailio – Winner Of Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award

Recently Google announced the first group of Open Source Peer Bonus Award winners for 2019 and we are thrilled to see Daniel-Constantin Mierla and Kamailio among them.

The Google Open Source Peer Bonus program is described as:

In the same way that a Google Peer Bonus is used to recognize a fellow Googler who has gone above and beyond, an Open Source Peer Bonus recognizes external people who have made exceptional contributions to open source.

The announcement for the 2019 winners is available at:

• https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/04/google-open-source-peer-bonus-winners.html

Daniel and Kamailio are listed among open source developers and projects that have a relevant impact out there, like Linux Kernel, Kubernetes, Angular, Pip, LLVM/CLang, Apache projects, Git or Gerrit.

We are glad to see Kamailio recognized in this way for its contribution to open source real time communications ecosystem!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Kamailio World 2019 – The Schedule Of The Event

The first version of the schedule for Kamailio World Conference 2019 is out. You can see it at:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/schedule/

There can still be changes in the timelines, therefore keep an eye on the website for latest updates.

At this edition we have again sessions covering the major open source SIP/VoIP projects: Kamailio, Asterisk and FreeSwitch, as well as industry perspectives from a consistent group of renowned speakers. You can learn about the impact of 5G for local network innovations or how to build 4G networks with open source; scalability, reliability and security are well covered across many workshops and presentations; how to use latest Homer SIPCapture or what is new in Asterisk along with the no-touch auto provisioning system for FreeSwitch.

More relevant projects are represented, such as Wazo, dSIProuter, reSiprocrate, Janus Gateway, CGRateS, SIP3.io; differences on voice and video media processing; WebRTC – how to build a softphone with web technologies; the RTPEngine project developed at fast pace in the past two years, adding transcoding, call recording, audio play back and more, the talk about it is something that should not be skipped.

Obviously, the majority of sessions focus on Kamailio, touching security extensions, deployments in containerisation environment with Docker, how to deal with outages, billing systems relying on blockchain technology, optimizations for KEMI scripting (SIP routing logic in Lua, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, …), Kamailio metrics and monitoring with Prometheus, the new RTP media module, the event routes and the timers, an open source SBC using Kamailio and RTP engine as well as remarks about using Kamailio as an SBC, replication and data sharing for multi-node Kamailio deployments.

Three interactive sessions complete what looks like being the most impressive content of a single Kamailio World edition to date, respectively the traditional VoIP Visions panel, Dangerous Demos and the new show Your Deployment On Stage. The conference content is accompanied by two social events in the evenings on Monday and Tuesday: Berlin City Boat Trip and Cockatail Party.

Two weeks and a half to go, no much time left to register and participate at this edition, hurry up! We look forward to meeting many of you in Berlin during May 6-8, 2019!

Kamailio World 2019 – Welcoming Nexmo Among The Sponsors

We are very pleased to welcome Nexmo among the sponsors of the next Kamailio World Conference, May 6-8, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.

Nexmo is a global cloud communications platform, providing APIs and SDKs for messaging, voice, phone verification, advanced multi-channel conversations and video calling with the OpenTok API. With their Messages and Dispatch Beta you can now integrate with various communication channels including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Viber. They support open source libraries for PHP, Python, Ruby, Node.JS, Java and C# .NET enabling you to build scalable communications features.

You can meet their team in Berlin during the Kamailio World 2019, get some pretty swag, ask more details about their services or even see some demos. Meanwhile you can follow their announcements via twitter handle @NexmoDev .

With the help of all our sponsors we are once again able to align an amazing list of speakers and presentations during the three days of workshops and conference sessions. The full agenda should be published in a matter of days. The seats are filling up, do not delay your registration if you want to attend the event:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/registration/

Looking forward to meeting many of you in Berlin!

Kamailio World 2019 – Participation Grants

We continue our tradition to offer 3 free passes to students and underrepresented people at Kamailio World Conference – thanks to the sponsors, we are able to offer them in 2019 as well. The passes cover the entire registration fee for all three days and the social networking events – costs with travel and accommodation have to be covered by the participants.

Anyone enrolled in an academic activity (including master and PhD programs) as well as underrepresented people can apply for one of the passes via email to:

• conference [at] kamailioworld.com

or by contacting us via web form at:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/contact-us/

Applications done until April 15, 2019, will be selected by April 18, 2019. Afterwards, if there are still available passes, they will be allocated in the first come first served policy.

The details for most of the presentations were published, the full agenda is expected to be ready in a matter of a few days. You can see more details at:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/schedule/

Looking forward to meeting many of you in Berlin, at Kamailio World 2019! If you haven’t done it yet, secure your seat now, it’s going to be another great event about open source real time communications!

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Kamailio World 2019 – Getting To Know Each Other Better

Time is flying fast, only about 8 weeks till the start of the 7th edition of Kamailio World Conference, happening again in Berlin, Germany, during May 6-8, 2019! The details for the most of accepted presentations are published, the full schedule to be made available in the near future.

Besides bringing a consistent group for distinguished speakers, with every edition we aim to improve the interaction between all the participants. From the first edition of the event we had the VUC Visions panel and Dangerous Demos, along with the cocktail party for social networking. At the previous edition we introduced the Ask Me Anything session with Kamailio core developers.

In 2019, we are adding two new sessions to offer even more chances that the participants know each other and network between them, opening the doors for partnerships and collaboration. These are:

• Your Deployment On Stage – 5 Minutes 5 Slides – the session is coordinated by Markus Monka, head of IT infrastructure at sipgate.de. In this session any participant can come in the front of the others and speak about how they use Kamailio or what they are offering in the VoIP/RTC space. Think of it as a quick exposure, letting the others notice your presence so they can approach during the breaks or social networking event for further discussions. Time is limited, the proposals will be accepted in the order they are received. You can contact us starting now and get your 5min — use the web form for it. Important note: this session is not for accepted speakers, but for the registered attendees.
• Berlin City Tour By Boat – with special credits to sipgate.de for sponsoring it, this new social networking event during the evening of May 6, 2019, aims to offer a relaxing time combine sightseeing in the beautiful city center of Berlin with enjoying a few drinks, overall enabling more chances to chat between us.

Looking forward to meeting many of you in Berlin at Kamailio World Conference 2019! You still have the chance to secure your seat now at the early registration fee:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/registration/

Ending the post with a big shut out to sipgate.de, a company that supported all our editions and even more events related to Kamailio project! They are also hiring VoIP engineers, and not only — you have the opportunity to join an amazing team in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Kamailio World 2019 – Selection Of Presentations

Slightly more than 2  months till the start of the 7th edition of Kamailio World Conference, the event is approaching at a fast pace!

Recently we published the details for a group of accepted speakers, today we made a selection of sessions at the Kamailio World 2019. You can head to the Schedule page and see the details for about 20 sessions, from both workshops and conference days:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/schedule/

A very diverse range of topics, from using Kamailio to secure your VoIP services, deploying in a containerized environment with Docker and Kubernetes, using RTPEngine or the new addition RTP Media Server module, optimizations for KEMI language scripting such as Lua, Python or Javascript, to blockchains in telephony, building high throughput SBC systems with topos, using Kamailio and FreeSwitch together, or latest updates from Asterisk PBX.

There will be sessions covering IMS/VoLTE and IoT, and, of course, we have the very popular two sessions that never missed a Kamailio World edition: Dangerous Demos with James Body and VUC Visions with Randy Resnick.

The open discussions session Kamailio – Ask Me Anything with the main developers or the project is again present and allows the attendees to address questions about their needs of using Kamailio and the development of the project.

A new kind of session is introduced at this edition Your Deployment On Stage – 5 Minutes 5 Slides enabling attendees to show what their are doing in the RTC space, what are their services and products, where and how Kamailio is used.

The details for other speakers and sessions will be published in the near future, stay tuned!

Do not miss Kamailio World Conference 2019, it is going to be another great edition! You can register now!

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/registration/

Looking forward to meeting many of you at the next Kamailio World Conference, during May 6-8, 2019, in Berlin, Germany!

Kamailio Exporter For Prometheus In Golang

Via social media media, I noticed a nice article about a Kamailio exporter for Prometheus written in Golang:

• https://blog.callr.tech/kamailio-exporter-for-prometheus/

So I thought sharing it further via Kamailio’s website. Lately I noticed an increase of interest on using Prometheus, hopefully this exporter tool will help others inside our community.

As a matter of fact, one of the submissions for the next Kamailio World Conference (May 608, 2019, in Berlin) is about using Prometheus with Kamailio for visualising statistics and other metrics via Grafana dashboards (to avoid any confusions, it is not from the author of the linked article in this text). The schedule of the event is expected to be published in the near future, meanwhile you can view a selection of accepted speakers. Early bird registration is still open, if you want to benefit of the discounted access, hurry up to register!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Kamailio World 2019 – First Group Of Speakers

With slightly more than two months and a half before the start of Kamailio World 2019, we are glad to announce the first group of speakers. Their details are available at:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/speakers/

The selection procedure is ongoing, therefore expect the details for other speakers to be published in the near future.

The two interactive sessions present at all the past editions return in 2019, respectively VUC Visions and Dangerous Demos. In addition, we will have at least two other similar sessions to allow better interaction between Kamailio developers and the participants. As usual, expect presentations that go beyond Kamailio, covering Asterisk, FreeSwitch, VoLTE/IMS, WebRTC or IoT and technologies such as blockchain, containerisation and artificial intelligence.

To facilitate more networking between attendees, the 2019 edition is adding a new social event in the evening of the 6th of May, a boat trip on the channels of the city center.

The registration is open, you can do it now to benefit of the early registration price:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/registration/

Looking forward to meeting many of you at Kamailio World Conference, May 6-8, 2019, in Berlin, Germany!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Kamailio – Open Source Excellence Award At SimCon 2019

We are delighted to announce that Kamailio project was awarded the “Open Source Excellence” prize at SimCon 2019, ceremony hosted by Rachel Riley (twitter – wikipedia) and Simon Woodhead (twitter).

From their announcement:

Kamailio were awarded ‘Open Source Excellence’, a key reason being the superb management of the project. Kamailio is used within huge networks and really is the secret weapon of many modern telcos. It is open source and, in the judges’ opinion, one of the best run projects around.

This recognizes the enormous effort made over more than 15 years by the development team and the community to keep Kamailio at the top of open source SIP/VoIP server applications, with a well defined development process and project organizing procedures.

With key targets such as flexibility, robustness, security and scalability, Kamailio continued to bring constantly a consistent set of new features with each major release (19 of them, from SER 0.8.x to Kamailio 5.2.x) and consolidated the trust in being a reliable application that can be used from start-ups to large established telcos and mobile operators.

It is actually a double celebration, because Fred Posner (twitter), one of our most prominent community members and advocate, was also awarded — citing: a genuine ‘Pre-Posthumous Legend’, a selfless, long standing contributor and supporter of the open-source community who has never sought the limelight.

Thank you SimCon for the award and Simwood for supporting the project for so many years!

We look forward to Kamailio World Conference 2019 and hoping to meet many of you there!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Upcoming Events During Winter-Spring 2019

The year 2019 started once again at fast pace for Kamailio SIP Server project. Among the activities within the community, we have always tried to cover as much as possible the events related to open source and real time communication worlds.

During the next few months, there are many occasions where you can meet with Kamailio developers and community members, among them:

• Asterisk World and ITExpo, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA, during January 29, 2019 – Fred Posner will give a presentation about Kamailio
• Fosdem, Brussels, Belgium, during February 2-3, 2019 – Henning Westerholt will give a presentation about Kamailio as part of RTC Devroom. Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Federico Cabiddu, Alexandr Dubovikov, Torrey Searle and couple of other developers will attend the event and participate to our traditional dinner on the evening of the 2nd of February
• Call Center World, Berlin, Germany, during February 18-21, 2019
• Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, during February 25-28, 2019
• Kamailio Advanced Training, Berlin, Germany, during March 4-6, 2019
• IETF 104, Prague, Czech Republic, during March 23-29, 2019
• Kamailio Advanced Training, Washington DC area, USA, during March 25-27, 2019
• Kamailio World Conference, Berlin, Germany, during May 6-8, 2019 – the 7th edition of the yearly event of Kamailio project

Should you participate to those events, or just happens to be in the same city during those events and want to meet, get in contact with us via sr-users mailing list. We would love to get in touch and share the latest updates about Kamailio!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Kamailio World 2019 – Sponsorship Opportunity

Three months and a bit till the start of Kamailio World 2019, the 7th edition of the conference about Kamailio project eco-system and the open source real time communication platforms.

If you want to contribute to the success of the event and benefit of a great exposure, you can join us as a sponsor. You can choose from several standard packages presented in the Sponsorship page [1] of the event website or ask for a personalized package that can be tailored to suit better your needs [2].

Many of the persons with relevant contributions to the evolution of the project are invited to the event, besides that the sponsorships help to cover the costs on site for all speakers. Also, we are offering again several grants to students interested in real time communications (last edition we had four students from Spain, Germany, Poland and Czech Republic). If SER-OpenSER-Kamailio helped you along the years, your support can add on board more people that can contribute back to the project as well as having a great event with many developers and the project community at Kamailio World 2019!

Do not hesitate to contact us for more details about sponsorship options.

• [1] https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/sponsorship/
• [2] https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/contact-us/

See you in Berlin!

Kamailio World 2019 – Registration Is Now Open

The registration for the 7th edition of Kamailio World Conference is now open! More details and registration forms are available on the website:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/registration/

Like at the previous editions, the event spans over three days, May 6-8, 2019, taking place at our usual venue, in the hearth of Berlin city, Germany. The first day contains the technical tutorials, the following two days are for conference presentations and exhibition.

With this edition, we are introducing a new social networking event during the evening of the first day, the 6th of May. The goal is to allow more time for interaction and networking between participants, as well as get a taste of Berlin. Therefore, this event is organized outside of the conference venue, couple of options being considered at this time, like city tour by boat or double deck bus, pub or pizza party. The cocktail party will take place as usual, during the evening of the 2nd day, the 7th of May. More updates about this new social networking event in the near future!

Note also that the Call For Speakers is still in progress and we already have a consistent group of submissions, if you plan to present at Kamailio World 2019, hurry up with the proposal! Scalability and security, WebRTC, IMS and VoLTE or IoT with Kamailio as well as related projects such as Asterisk or FreeSwitch are among the topics to be covered this year.

Keep an eye on the website of the event, soon we will publish more details about accepted speakers and the first draft of the agenda.

Looking forward to meeting many of you in Berlin at Kamailio World 2019!

Planning Fosdem 2019

Fosdem 2019 is approaching, so we surveying to see who from the community plans to go to the event. We also plan to organize again a dinner on Saturday evening, a tradition for our project at the past 10 editions or even more.

Henning Westerholt will give a presentation about Kamailio in the RTC Devroom.

Several other developers plan to go to the conference as well, among them Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Federico Cabiddu and Alexandr Dubovikov, therefore we open here the invitation to join for everyone in our community. Of course, at Fosdem will be developers from other VoIP projects, like Asterisk, Janus, CGRates, Homer, Jitsi, …

At the past editions we typically had two “kamailio” events:

• (1) an “ad-hoc” developers meeting in the cantina (or other available
  room around) to discuss about short term plans for Kamailio — time and
  place being decided as we meet there between us (expected in the
  afternoon of Saturday or during Sunday).
• (2) a dinner at a place nearby, with other VoIP folks joining us

If you plan to go to Fosdem and want to join the dinner, announce yourself on sr-users@lists.kamailio.org mailing list. Just be aware that you have to pay for your food and drinks at the dinner, unless we are going to be surprised again by a generous sponsor that covers partially or completely to dinner.

If you need more details about Fosdem, the website is:

• https://fosdem.org

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Happy New Year 2019!

Fast, so fast, the 2018 is gone, one of those years of consolidation in terms of development and community activity for the Kamailio project, with another major release and an amazing edition of Kamailio World Conference! Thank you everyone for contributing to the project!

We are now looking forward to a healthy and fruitful year 2019 to all Kamailio friends and the project itself, once again hoping to meet many of you at the 7th edition of Kamailio World Conference and other events around this magnificent world!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Enjoy 2019 and stay safe!

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Slowly getting to another end of a year, the 18th since the project was started — a fruitful 2018, with a great evolution for project development and plenty of community interactions. We had another major releases, 5.2 in November and, after quite long time, a meeting dedicated for Kamailio developers, done by end of September 2018, in Dusseldorf, Germany. We are grateful to all developers and community members that contributed to moving the project further!

The 6th edition of Kamailio World happened in the spring of 2018, now we prepare for the 7th edition during May 6-8, 2019, in Berlin, Germany. We look forward to meeting many of the community members there!

Merry Christmas and Happy Winter Holidays!

Santa is flying Kamailio!

Kamailio World 2019 – Call for Presentations

We would like to announce that Call for Presentations at Kamailio World 2019 is now open. You can submit your proposal or see more details at:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k07/call-for-speakers/

The 7th edition of the event takes place again in Berlin, Germany, during May 6-8, 2019. Expect over 150 participants, developers and community members as well as representatives from other popular open source VoIP projects such as Asterisk or FreeSwitch.

Looking forward to meeting many of you there!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Announcing Next Kamailio World Conference, May 6-8, 2019, in Berlin

The next edition of Kamailio World Conference is planned to take place at the same location like the past editions, respectively hosted by Fraunhofer Fokus and Forum in the city center of Berlin, Germany, during May 6-8, 2019.

The website of the event and the call for presentations will be launched in the near future, stay tuned!

Meanwhile, you can browse the website of the previous edition in order to get an idea about the type of event and its content:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k06/

Enjoy the upcoming winter or summer season!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Kamailio World 2018 – Video Recordings

Shortly after the end of the 6th edition of Kamailio World Conference (May 14-16, 2018, in Berlin, Germany), the video recordings of the sessions were published on KamailioWorld Channel on Youtube:

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCElq4JNTPd7bs2vbfAAYVJA/videos

The channel is a valuable knowledge base, only from Kamailio World 2018 there are over 35 recorded sessions, approaching topics such as IMS/VoLTE, emergency services, use of Kamailio with Redis, SIP routing scripting with KEMI (Lua, Python, JavaScript, …), least cost routing engine, deployments and continuous integration with Docker, integration with other systems such as Asterisk, FreeSwitch, CGRateS or SipCapture. All these add to the videos from the past Kamailio World editions.

If you haven’t followed the channel, you should do it and watch the videos on topics of interest for you, there are many tips and hints shared by developers and experienced users of Kamailio.

Enjoy!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Kamailio World 2018 – Event Preview

Two weeks and few more days till the start of Kamailio World Conference 2018, to take place again in Berlin, during May 14-16. It will be the 6th edition of the event, hosted like all previous ones by Fraunhofer Forum, courtesy of Fraunhofer Fokus Research Institute, in the beautiful city center of Berlin, just across the river from Berlin Cathedral, few minutes walking from Alexanderplatz.

For this edition we had an increased number of speaking proposals, we tried to accommodate as many as possible from the very interesting ones, therefore we are introducing a group of Lightning Talks, most of them being on Monday, May 14, in the afternoon.

The range of topics is also richer, covering from the common use cases for IP telephony, VoLTE/5G or WebRTC, to scalability on demand with Docker, Blockchains in telecom, use of Redis backend for data sharing among many Kamailio instances, leveraging Lua for call routing and testing or VoIP security.

Related projects in the RTC world are again very well represented: Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Kazoo, SIP:Provider, Homer SIP Capture, Janus Gateway, CGRateS, FusionPBX and reSIProcate.

We continue to have the two interactive sessions that never missed a Kamailio World edition so far:

• VUC Visions coordinated by Randy Resnick – expect again an engaging debate about the future of RTC, the impact of sharing personal data and privacy matters with the Internet giants services or surprise topics brought on table by panelists and audience
• Dangerous Demos coordinated by James Body – prepare your demo and be part of a very entertaining contest that can make you famous as well as reward your work with a prize

A novelty for this edition is an open discussion with Kamailio developers – Ask Me Anything – aiming to get the participants face to face with several main Kamailio developers to chat and clarify any doubts about using or developing the project.

To see the full schedule of the event, visit:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k06/schedule/

As usual, there will be couple expo spots where the sponsors are going to make demos of their products and services.

We are very grateful to all our sponsors and partners that made possible this edition of Kamailio World Conference: FhG Fokus, FhG Forum, Asipto, Evosip, Netaxis Solutions, 2600hz and KazooCon, Sipwise, Sipgate, Simwood, LOD, Digium, Pascom, Evariste Systems, NG Voice, Core Network Dynamics and VUC.

Should you plan to participate at Kamailio World 2018, do not delay your registration, we expect to be again fully booked – secure your registration now:

• https://www.kamailioworld.com/k06/registration/

Looking forward to meeting many of you in Berlin at Kamailio World 2018!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Upcoming Kamailio Events – Spring To Autumn 2018

With a vibrant community world wide, Kamailio project is going to be represented at many events for the rest of the year, among the confirmed at this moment are:

• Hannover Messe – April 23-26, 2018, in Hannover, Germany
• KazooCon – April 30-May 02, 2018, in San Jose, USA
• Kamailio World – May 14-16, 2018, in Berlin, Germany
• CeBIT – June 11-15, 2018, in Hannover, Germany
• CommCon – June 25-29, 2018, in Wotton House, Surrey, UK
• ClueCon – July 23-26, 2018, in Chicago, USA
• AstriCon – October 9-11, 2018, in Orlando, USA

Should you plan to go to any of these events, get in touch with the rest of the community via sr-users mailing list and try to organise meetups with other Kamailio folks!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!