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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Alex Balashov <abalas...@evaristesys.com>wrote: > For immediate release: > > ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2014)--Evariste Systems LLC, an Atlanta-based > consultancy and software vendor specialising in Kamailio-based VoIP > infrastructure solutions for the ITSP (Internet Telephony Service > Provider) market, has announced the public release of its groundbreaking > "Social Configuration" module for the Kamailio open-source SIP server > and SIP proxy. > > Evariste principal Alex Balashov explained: > > "It's no secret that writing Kamailio configuration in its embedded > scripting language is complex. Social Configuration integrates with > Twitter and Facebook to allow tens of thousands of people to write a > config simultaneously through social networks, over a variety of devices > and media, including PCs, tablets, smartphones and SMS. This lets Kamailio > users harness the benefits of crowdsourcing." > > Continued Balashov: "The process begins when the Kamailio administrator > writes the desired intentions of their setup--yes, in natural English > prose. This isn't for propellerheads. > > The module sends this to our proprietary QNLP (quantum natural language > parsing) server, which splits these desiderata into Business Action > Items (BAIs). These are then sent out to participating Facebook and > Twitter users via our expansive middleware, and the users return their > piecemeal script implementations, which are usually one line of code or > less. These are consolidated back into a fully functional Kamailio > configuration." > > Brooks Bridges, Director of Engineering at Evariste, explained how > Social Configuration handles reconciliation of conflicting implementations > from across the Twittersphere and Facebook: > > "This is really the heart of the technology. It's handled via a deeply > recursive, Rails-based social A/B testing and multiple-choice polling > system. It uses hashtags, trending and RSS and stuff. The days of merge > conflicts with unified diffs are gone! Throw out your legacy version > control, 'cause this is Conflict Resolution 2.0: The Feed!" > > Another frequently asked question lingered: assembling the contributions > in a particular order. On this topic, Balashov offered a surprising > answer: > > "Plot twist: that's social, too! Twitter is an infinitely dynamic > collaboration platform. The question isn't so much 'what can social > networks do for us?' as 'what can't they do?' You can see that there > are many strata of social clouds here: cumulus, stratus, cirrus--we've > got all the clouds!" > > "Xzibit would make it easier to understand for the layman," chortled > Balashov as he shifted his position slightly. > > "The whole process uses infinitely differential recursion manifolds. > It's like: 'Yo dawg, I heard you like crowds, so we put a crowd in your > crowd, so you can crowd while you crowd', you know? All stages of the > process happen simultaneously and in real time. It's consensus-driven > development by a Committee of the Ultimate." > > Balashov also stated that total development time for Social Configuration > was only three days, rather than the thousands of man-hours normally > required to develop complex technology. When asked how this was possible, > he deferred to Bridges: > > Bridges explained: > > "It's all because we embraced the Agile Full Vapour method at our company. > Maybe you've heard of it. > > Classic Agile and 'customer-driven development' says 'release early, > fail often'. That wasn't enough for us. Agile Full Vapour is Agile > extended to its logical maximum. Our slogan here at Evariste Engineering > is 'Release Too Early, Fail More Often'. And stand-ups? Ain't nobody got > time for that. We've done away with all team communication or collaboration > of any kind. We've slashed overhead to a new level, and the numbers speak > for themselves. We get three thousand percent more out of our developers > than anyone, anywhere else." > > Balashov concurred, gesturing to the Evariste office "Vapour Board": > > "I really don't know how legacy Agile companies get anything done!" > > Initial reactions to the new technology from inside the VoIP community > were positive. > > Sean McCord, Vice President of Wholesale Hashtag and viral marketing expert > at Atlanta-based social media anaytics giant CyCORE Systems, agreed > that Social Configuration is an essential leap forward for the Kamailio > ecosystem: > > "The Social Configuration module heralds the long-overdue marriage of > Kamailio with the Social Web, the biggest trend of the Internet in this > millenium so far, and probably for the rest of the millenium. Everyone > knows that the wisdom of crowds is greater than the wisdom of one." > > On the broader theme of Kamailio's ascendancy to the mainstream of the > Social Web, McCord said: > > "Anyway, the whole reason Kamailio hasn't gone viral so far is due to > lack of network effects. We have planking, owling, Grumpy Cat, so why > not Kamailio? Kamailio's imagery is green like Philosoraptor. What's > stopping it from going big like Philosoraptor? No network effects, no > multiplier--that is, until now." > > J.R. Richardson, Chief Technology Officer of Dallas-based Ntegrated > Solutions, reported positive results from his initial testing: > > "Down here in Texas, we're a real social bunch. But I always felt so > lonely writing Kamailio script by myself. I don't even know what I'm > doing half the time. But now, with this Social Configuration business, > the whole neighborhood can help out!" > > John Knight, Chief Engineer at Ringfree Communications in Hendersonville, > North Carolina, also spoke highly of the new social technology: > > "It's great! The config just writes itself! But the best part for me, > as a civically conscious businessman, is the economic boost. It's a > much better employment opportunity for stay-at-home moms in Appalachia > than Mechanical Turk. I'm paying out 2 cents per core function call, > 4 cents per modparam, 10 cents per Record-Route parameter, and 5 cents > per module function invocation. Stimulate this economy!" > > Carlos Alvarez, an international business consultant at The Himley > Dock Table Agency, a Phoenix, Arizona-area think tank focused on > sociology of the World Wide Web, was keen to note that the technology > brought forth by Evariste was far more than just a different way of > implementing Kamailio solutions. > > "We were talking with Evariste about building an XMPP server and selling > it to Facebook for $20 billion, but that train left the station. It was > a blessing in disguise, though, because it told us that we weren't thinking > big enough. Social Configuration is way more transformative." > > Asked further about what it meant, Alvarez said: > > "This is going to have implications way beyond esoteric programming. > A crowdsourced config is nothing like an individual's config; it's > e-cosmopolitanism, it's Humanity 2.0. It will open up the floor to > new kinds of first movers and lead to new assumptions about how > scripts of all kinds should be written. > > It's going to challenge established notions of what it means to program, > and it will make the playing field more level by disintermediating the > supply chain of session initiation. A lot of middlemen are going to hurt. > One does not simply program the program anymore; the program programs > you, too. It programs all of us. For the first time, request routes and > SRV load balancing are part of a living, breathing organism. And that's > worth way more than an XMPP server. That's disruption right there." > > After a moment's thought, Alvarez added: > > "I can probably flip it to Facebook for at least $3 trillion in Zuckerberg > funny money--whoops, did I say that? I meant Facebook stock." > > The transformative impact forecasted by Alvarez is seemingly borne out > in the enthusiasm for Social Configuration shown around the world by a > variety of societal constituencies not traditionally thought to be > associated with software development and telecommunications. > > Jakub Klausa, a self-described member of an "anarcho-syndicalist reading > group" in Wroclaw, Poland, confidently offered a hypothesis about the` > new era brought forth by Social Configuration: > > "Let's start with the deeply-ingrained assumption of Kamailio consultant > or trainer as 'teacher', as a purveyor of knowledge that he has and you > don't," said Klausa. > > "That's a very oppressive, authoritarian construction. It's quite > presumptuous and dehumanising. Oh, does the Kamailio 'expert', His > Royal Highness, deign to 'teach' us, to 'share' what he knows with > the little people? Oh, thank you, massa', thank you!" lamented Klausa. > > "You see, it's not so much about what the consultants and self-anointed > mailing list demigods can 'teach' us. It's more about what we can all > learn from each other! Social Configuration is a tool that finally > allows us, the workers, the so-called 'newbies', to take the power > of Kamailio into our hands and master our own destiny. It's time to > put a knife through the tyranny of 'expertise' and 'knowledge'." > > The Chairman of the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the > Revolutionary Communist Party of Poland, Magdalena Boksa, issued the > following communiqué from the party's headquarters, thought to be > located in an underground bunker beneath a Starbucks: > > Social Configuration empowers the revolutionary vanguard > of the activated, class-conscious proletariat to commandeer > the machinery of Kamailio, in order to advance a scientific > understanding of the objective laws of motion of the > capitalist system, together with the tension of its internal > contradictions, in keeping with the essential truth of > dialectical materialism. > > The global imperialist division of labour, as revealed by > V.I. Lenin in Selected Works, Vol. 1, shall meet its end > through the thunderous destruction of the petit-bourgeois > monopoly on knowledge-as-capital and the extraction of > surplus value from it. Through the dogma of Social Configuration, > the means of production in Information Technology shall be > socialised among the working class, distributed according to > the principle of "from each according to his ability, to each > according to his need". > > When asked about the revolutionary potential of Social Configuration, > a young student member of the RCP-Poland Youth Brigade concurred > with Comrade Boksa's recitation: > > "¡Venceremos! ¡No pasarán! ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!" > > The impact of Social Configuration has even played out on a national, and > perhaps global level of significance. A brief statement from the Ministry > of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea read: > > Social Configuration of Red Star SER [as it is known inside > North Korea] is consistent with the teachings of Kim Il-Sungism > and Kim Jong-Ilism. Great Leader Kim Jong-Un, Supreme Commander > of the Korean People's Army, First Secretary of the Workers' Party > of Korea, will chart the glorious course to the maximum realisation > of its full military and civil potential in all spheres of public > and private life. It will boost the resilience of our prosperous > socialist nation in the face of a continual onslaught by the > imperialist menace and its ROK puppet regime. > > Motivated by chronic energy shortages, the secretive North Korean state > has been rumoured to be working on a Kamailio-based personal VoIP > appliance that is--the first of its kind--powered not by conventional > electricity, but by The Juche Idea. > > Social Configuration has also garnered attention from scholars attentive > to the role of gender, race and privilege in the configuration scripting > process. > > Moriah Trostler, a resident feminist scholar at the Phoenix, > Arizona-based Scorpion Bay Institute of Gender Studies, gave some > insight into the ways that Social Configuration potentially broadens > the inclusiveness of the Kamailio tapestry: > > "If people would check their cisprivilege and open their eyes, they > would see that Kamailio, and SIP itself, is full of oppressive, > psychologically violent gendered constructions. For instance, there is > the infamous 'loose routing vs. strict routing' dichotomy, which is > clearly a dark, sadomasochistic allegory for capricious--dare I say > schizophrenic?--sexual humiliation. It's a lurid invitation to > indulge the prurient whims of the boss-with-secretary." > > Trostler gave another example: > > "And From and To 'tags'? Please, the idea of ownership of another's > corporeal being, of branding--tagging--like cattle, is transparent. > That's straight out of the Larry Flint smut-peddling playbook. And what's > more, all this makes use of 'globally unique identifiers', the signature > scent of industrial alienation--an anonymising, dystopian, Kafkaesque > labyrinth. This has all the markers of masculinised depersonalisation. > Need I go on?" > > Trostler went on: "Social Configuration opens the door to speaking truth > to some of these discriminatory, alienating, gendered mental categories > in which brogrammers think. Finally, women can write the Kamailio config > as they might have written it, without compromising their identity or > their dignity. Maybe we can even make some headway in influencing the > male-dominated IETF standards process." > > Asked to summarise the impact of emergent minority voices and critical > discourse enabled by Social Configuration, Fred Posner, a literary > theorist based in Gainesville, Florida, offered the following comments: > > "The larger power of Social Configuration is essentially meta. It > offers a new language, a new word-prism through which to look at > the neosemiotic discursive space of SIP express routing. It's about > reader as text, and text as reader, and the joy and wonder of their > sizzling interplay." > > "It is evocative of Nietzsche," said Posner, gesturing to an open manhole > cover on a busy Jacksonville thoroughfare. > > "If you stare too long into the Kamailio configuration, it, in turn, > stares back into you! But now it speaks with a palpable collective voice, > giving shape--definition!--to a bold, muscular subtext of configuration > as culture, and culture as configuration. It is a semantic fusion of coder > as critic, and critic as coder. Without knowing it--and it was > inconceivable > that they could have known it--Evariste has set into motion a wondrous, > intricate and mesmerising ballet, a shower of sparks, a thrifty, yet > spirited rejoinder to the supposed futility of poststructuralist > rationalism. > As we speak, a new 'Social Text' is being written!" > > Alistair Cunningham, a physicist from the University of Cambridge, > provided an appraisal from a different angle: > > "Social Configuration, as interpreted by Balashov, embodies the > kind of nonlinear thinking that is noticeably missing in software. At > first glance, it does seem to invite a deafening cacophany, an > undifferentiated chaos. But if one phase-shifts it slightly, the shadows > of mathematical signatures emerge, waiting to be unlocked. The quantum > resonance of social entropy doing its work gives us valuable clues into > the origins of the universe at the sub-particle level." > > Asked about what Evariste has in store next, Balashov was > uncharacteristically tight-lipped: > > "I can't say too much. But I can tell you it's big. Though he doesn't > know it yet, we're even going to hire Leif Madsen for this, because > the database is going to be at least 6 GB. That's almost a byte for > every person on the planet. Definitely Big Data territory." > > Pressed for details, Balashov said: > > "Okay, okay, but this is all I'm going to say. I've got three words for > you: IMS With Friends. It's a proprietary mash-up of Snapchat in the > front, Hadoop in the back, and a DIAMETER billing interface in the > middle. What could possibly go wrong?" > > > > -- > Alex Balashov - Principal > Evariste Systems LLC > 235 E Ponce de Leon Ave > Suite 106 > Decatur, GA 30030 > United States > Tel: +1-678-954-0670 > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.alexbalashov.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list > sr-users@lists.sip-router.org > http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users >
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