Voxeo Talks

Voxeo Labs is looking for a DevOps/Systems Engineer to work remotely, in or around the greater Atlanta area. (We’re flexible for the right person, but an Atlanta local is highly desirable.)

Why work with us?

• We’re solving interesting problems. Tired of clients with yet another social network for cats?

• We have awesome benefits. Mind-blowing in fact. Medical, dental, the works, 100% paid for by us, even a flex card (woot!).

• We participate. Conferences, Hack-a-thons, Code Camps. You name it, we do it. Heck, even our core product is open source.

• We’re Polyglots, and love it if our team is as well. We have Java, C, C++, Ruby, Python, Groovy, node.js, C# and even ColdFusion code running in production. You’ll learn all sorts of new things.

• Hardware. Yea, you get it all (QuadCore i7 Macbook Pro, Company iPhone, etc.)

• Freedom. You can work when you want, where you want…we know you’ll get the job done!

What we want from you:

• You need to be an Ops guy/gal (duh). Send us your Github account; we really want to see your contributions to the community. Issue queues you participate in. Projects you maintain. That sort of thing.

• You need to be available for full time work. We’re planning on hiring you full time, so freelancers, development shops, and moonlighters can sit this one out.

• We are looking for an automation and change management ninja – though in the interest of full disclosure, we don’t want an actual ninja. Difficulty locating you and/or inexplicable bodies littered about the area would be difficult to manage.

• While we’re hiring someone for a Devops role, we really want more than just a one-trick pony. We’d love it if you have other skills; freelance magician, rodeo cowboy, maybe a few programming languages under your belt? We have a fair amount of Ruby code (with and without Rails), as well as some legacy JSP stuff. Got a GitHub account full of interesting code? Show us.

Want to learn more, and find out how to apply? Check out the full description on LinkedIn (and follow us on LinkedIn to keep up to date on our openings as soon as they are posted!)

That’s the question that will be on the mind of the attendees when they gather for the San Francisco Telephony Group meeting at Orange Labs on December 15th on the topic of “Telephony is Sexy“.

The first presenter will be Alex Kaufmann, a recent graduate of NY University’s very cool ITP program that combines art and technology, demonstrating some of his recent projects. I don’t know precisely what Alex will be showing, but the NYU ITP folks have come up with some fun stuff like Botanicalls in the past. It should be fun!

The second presenter will be our own Jason Goecke of Voxeo Labs talking about the new Asterisk “Scalable Communications Framework” (a.k.a. “Asterisk SCF”) that brings scalability, extensibility and performance gains to Asterisk. Jason’s no stranger to Asterisk, having been one of the prime developers on the Adhearsion project for some time now. He recently attended and spoke at AstriCon 2010, the Asterisk developer’s conference where Asterisk SCF was released, and will discuss what Asterisk SCF means for Asterisk-based communications systems.

Does all that make telephony “sexy”? You’ll have to judge for yourself by heading on over to Orange Labs on December 15th and checking it out…

As you may have read on GigaOm last night, Voxeo Gobbles Up Teleku, we announced that Voxeo acquired Teleku, a cloud communications startup. We have a news page up summarizing the announcement, linking to a FAQ and providing other info:

blogs.voxeo.com/news/teleku/

I sat down with Teleku founder Chris Matthieu to talk about the news:

We are delighted to welcome Chris to the Voxeo family and we’re very much looking forward to what he’ll bring to Tropo and Voxeo Labs. I know he’s already hard at work with the team on some truly disruptive new services! (Stay tuned!)

Personally, I’m also excited for Chris to join us as he brings solid content creation skills in writing blog posts, creating video screencasts and recording audio podcasts. Look for his contributions to begin appearing soon (mostly over on The Tropo Blog).

Welcome, Chris, to the fun and crazy world of being a “Voxeon”!

Want to meet some of the folks on the bleeding edge of communication? Want to learn about new ways to build communication apps in the cloud? Or about the new technology available for communications and telephony? Or do you just want to meet a great group of people?

As mentioned over on the Tropo Blog, Voxeo is one of the sponsors of the San Francisco Telephony Meetup happening tomorrow, Wednesday, June 30th, at Orange Labs in South San Francisco.

Zhao Lu from Orange Labs and creator of OpenVoice has organized the San Francisco Telephony Meetup and the first meetup has a great agenda:

Gabriel Sidhom CTO, Orange Labs – Introduction

Jason Goecke, VP of Innovation at Voxeo Labs, will talk about Tropo & Moho – An open-source cloud communications platform that helps developers to create multi-channel real-time communications apps from the cloud or on your own open-source instance.

Adrian Georgescu, CEO of AG Projects Introduction to SIP2SIP.info
- Free SIP accounts for the masses
- Self-organizing SIP server infrastructure
- Remote provisioning API based on SOAP/XML

Chris Matthieu, the Founder of Teleku.com, will introduce the new cloud communication start-up’s RESTful web service APIs which allow web developers to write sophisticated phone applications using PhoneML, TwiML, or VoiceXML that run on any carrier’s network as well as their own free open-souce telephony stack called Ninja.

Dan Miller (Opus Research, 10min), Opus Research: Intro to Recombinant Communications (RC), what it is and what opportunities it presents to developers, incumbent carriers, wireless enterprise IT/app managers.

James Li/Dominic Lee (Orange Labs) – What else can you do while watching TV

Darren Schreiber (15min): an open-source, distributed cloud platform for putting distributed FreeSWITCH nodes on disparate servers. It’s written in Erlang mostly and utilizes some cool messaging and data storage technologies, including NoSQL.

A handful of Tropo people will be on hand, including Adam Kalsey, Jason Goecke, and John Higgins. RSVP on meetup.com and come join us.

June 30, 2010 at 6:30pm
Orange Labs
801 Gateway Blvd Suite 500
South San Francisco

Last week at eComm Europe, Voxeo Lab‘s Jay Phillips spoke on “Entrepreneurial Advantages with New Open-Source Technologies” and as usual providing an entertaining set of slides complete with LOLCats and other pictures that… well… make you think you kind of had to be there to understand! Along the way he outlined the state of a number of different open source telephony and communication tools… and made an announcement in the middle, too….

You can see Jay’s slides on SlideShare or here: