One of the great moments of Kamailio World 2018 was seeing Olle Johansson speak. Although Olle truly needs no introduction to regulars, it may be best to give a short one here.

Olle has been active in software development, software distribution, consulting, training and conferences since 1987, with open networking, open standards and open source. He has been pioneer in his work with many different kinds of VoIP and IM projects, among which are Asterisk®, OpenSER/Kamailio and ejabberd on Linux and Freebsd systems. His company, Edvina was founded in 1987 and has worked in many areas of TCP/IP networking, including directory services, information systems and security. He is a co-founder of Astricon and contributed significantly to channel SIP in Asterisk.

We'll talk about Kamailio World 2018 since

A) We just got back, and

B) Our guest had to cancel because of the storm

Eric Klein  of Cloudonix joins us to talk about what’s new on their end and also let you know that you can meet Nir Simionovich in Berlin if you’re going to Kamailio World. SIP is dead; Long live SIP! We also talk a little about privacy and competition in the telecom sector.

Zoiper 5 release: Longtime friends Zoa and Mira stop by to chat about this. We talk briefly about the T-Mobile/Sprint merger.

We give a preview of Kamailio World 2018 with Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Co-Founder Kamailio.

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If you have an email address and any online activity at all, you’ve probably received these “Data Policy Update” messages from multiple platforms. We’ll talk a little about what happens May 25th for EU and non-EU citizens and Brexiters. Keith Millner, Andy SMith, James Body and Michael Graves chime in.

An investigation is underway by the US DoJ over possible collusion of two major carriers over eSIM. James talks about his experience with the eSIM.

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LaunchCode offers the learning resources and job opportunities to help prepare and launch careers in technology. They provide courses, educational resources, career coaching, and mentorship to prospective LaunchCoders, 80% of whom begin without a computer science degree.

Daniel Fogarty, Director of Growth, and VP of Impact Haley Shoaf join us to talk about the their challenges and victories.

May be of interest: LaunchCode's Annual Report

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This week’s Vision comes from Emil Ivov, who received a Ph.D. degree while in the Network Research Team at the University of Strasbourg, France.  Emil is well-known for Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator), as well as other open source projects, such as ice4j, jsip, fmipv6.org and (less actively in) others.

In 2015, Atlassian acquired Blue Jimp, the mastermind team behind the Jitsi community. This is a quote from their news post:

“Jitsi is an open source project that includes the WebRTC Jitsi Videobridge, among other technologies. The Jitsi Videobridge relays video rather than mixing it which provides improved scale with higher quality and lower latency. These are very good things.”

Emil shared his longtime battle with being overweight and how he lost 30% of his weight. Randy wrote a book, Real Men Stay Fit: 101+ Simple Tips available at most Amazon stores

Joe Roberts is new to these parts. He spent many years in corporate IT before making the transition to the world of wine. He described himself as a “freelance wine writer and media guy, and founder of 1WineDude.com.”

His blog brings a refreshingly irreverent perspective to the world of wine. It’s repeatedly been acclaimed as one of the leading wine blogs.

Beyond the boundaries of his own .com, he has contributed to and/or been quoted in the L.A. Times, New York Times, CNBC.com, The Washington Post, Mutineer Magazine, Publix® Grape Magazine, Palate Press, Mint.com, Parade, Wines.com, SOMM Journal, The Guardian UK, Table Matters, Wine Nabber, Wine4.Me, Nomad Editions’ Uncorked,Chester County Cuisine & Nightlife and Playboy.com.

Joe lives in Pennsylvania with his Star-Wars-loving daughter, Lorelai. When not spending his time writing bio pages in the third person, Joe plays bass guitar and digeridoo for acclaimed singer/songwriter Steve Liberace.

Meet Lorenzo Miniero, a well-known denizen of conferences on WebRTC, to be seen and heard in Europe at OpenSIPS Summit, and Kamailio World. and in Europe’s friendly neighbor, the United Kingdom, at CommCon.

He’ll be speaking about the different activities the Meetecho team is carrying on, especially with respect to scalability, monitoring/troubleshooting, and new WebRTC stuff. He’ll also share some news from the latest Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting, which he streamed just last week.

Lorenzo authored an article in WebRTCHacks  four years ago, so he’s no stranger to that technology. He has been a guest before, describing
IETF Remote Participation with Meetecho, about Janus WebRTC Gateway and Meetecho.

We first met Suzanne at Astricon one year. She began the first of her many careers managing a fitness center before teaching English and becoming a part of VoIP startup DIDx. Recently, she created a brand of custom leather jackets and vests! We recommended her for a little acting with "WebRTC Therapy", a Crocodile demo at a conference a few years ago. At ITEXPO, she was involved in blockchain events.