Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:36:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: greg 
To: letters@lwn.net
Subject: Article:


(From LinuxTelephony)


Vovida Networks has agreed to sponsor 
a person to represent Open-Source considerations on the International 
Softswitch Consortium, and it's time to elect that 
representative.


Voting 
started at 8:00am PDT August 10, 1999 and will run until midnight PDT 
August 12, 1999.


There are five (5) candidates up for this election. Here's a summary of 
who they are and their background.


Ken Hendrickson 
Ken is an amateur radio operator, and his prime interest lies in using 
this type of software over RF links. He is very interested in 
implementing Open Source software for digital telephony. He is also an 
experienced Linux user, having used Linux since version .95. Ken holds an 
Electrical Engineer degree from USC. 


Stephen C. Nodvin, 
Ph.D. Stephen is an independent consultant/ contractor in the VoIP 
area, who has four years of R&D experience. He feels he has a lot to 
offer and could bring much "vision to the position."


Craig Southern 
Craig has been involved in the development and promotion of Linux for 
many years. He wrote the original 3Com 3c505 driver for the Linux kernel 
and has promoted and advocated Linux since the days of the floppy .99.1 
releases! Craig has also been involved in Linux groups and has recently 
developed a business that uses Linux in its everyday operations. The 
concept of supporting Linux and Open Source community on industry forums 
such as SoftSwitch has been a continuing goal for Craig.


David Sugar David 
has been one of the earliest and most consistently involved in the 
development of telephony under Linux. He has contributed many telephony 
applications into the community, such as integration servers, VoIP and 
streaming frameworks, IVR and gateway software.  All of these are 
generally licensed under GPL and disseminated in as wide a manner as 
possible for the purpose of encouraging other development in Linux 
telephony and education of the development community as whole on the 
methods for developing telephony services under Linux.


Randy Wright Randy 
is currently attending New York University where he is studying to be a 
computer programmer. Randy has a strong interest in Linux, networking 
programming and Kernel level programming.


Cast your 
vote.