One of the workshops that I attended last week at VON was an OpenSER admin course presented by one of the founders of the OpenSER project, Daniel-Constantin Mierla. I have to admit that working directly with one of the software engineers who has helped to create this routing engine left me feeling a bit overwhelmed. OpenSER is a derivative work of the original SER project from iptel.org. While both applications perform the same fundamental task of routing communications, OpenSER has been building a large open source community thanks to its focus on feature updates instead of long release cycles.
If you visit the OpenSER project site, you will see that in the spirit of the open source movement, all the content of that course is freely available. While the telephony of Penn State relies upon the systems designed and sold by both Cisco and Avaya, OpenSER is one tool that could enable us to communicate and participate with a growing Internet2 community using these standards based solutions on a daily basis. SIP.EDU is one of these groups working to enable this type of communication.
If you are interested in enabling communications (voice, video, IM, etc.), please let us know. Would you like to place video, voice, or IM calls using something as basic as a username? Is this something that appeals to the Penn State Community?
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