Well, I sure hope it becomes enormous!
I moved from Los Angeles to a certain city that shall remain nameless a few
months ago to work for a CLEC. I've realised that while I love working with
Asterisk, I simply can't remain in this city (waaaay to small) and would like
to return to LA.
I'm trying to work out the value of remaining in a city I don't like much in
order to gain experience. Architecting a VOIP solution for a CLEC would
certainly look great on a resume. However, in several months time when my
commitment with them is up, if I can't find an Asterisk related job back in LA,
what's the point? I might as well cut my losses now and try (it ain't gonna be
easy... I have to pay these guys back their relocation assistance etc) getting
a Unix Admin job back in LA again.
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Witvliet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 1/8/2006 3:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:58 +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> Douglas Garstang a écrit :
> Actually, I've found Asterisk to be a great experience. Not so much
> because of the product itself (which is already great), but because of
> the level of accessibility and the community around it.
>
> Asterisk drastically lowers barriers of entry in the field of
commercial
> telephony systems. Besides, the wiki, the mailing list and the IRC
> channels make it relatively easy to get started with the system. This
> "no-pointy-clicky no-brainer interface" actually allows you to gain
more
> in-depth knowledge about telephony and VoIP.
>
I can second that.
The (possible) impact of * on the pbx market could be enormous.
I worked for nearly two decades for the largest telco manufacturer,
and have seen some of the limitations a large company implies.
With pbx's, on small systems had just basic predefined dial-plans with
limmited features. On large systems, customers had to pay dearly for
any add-on feaures. Much was possible, but as there was no paying
customer, lots of things never left the design-department.
Personnaly, i would dare compare it with the impact Linux has on the
UNIX-community. It used to be closed, limited and high priced. Now,
distro's come with truck full of tools and applications one could only
dream of.
On *, it seems that your imagination is the only limitation.
You ARE capable of changing the behaviour yourself.
(Or actually you have to define the entire behaviour ;-))
Besides OOo, i think it is the best open-source product...
Perhaps it has little impact when looking for a specifc job, but you
shurely can learn a lot!
HW
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