CallWeaver.org Welcomes You

CallWeaver is the new name for the OpenPBX.org project. We are honored by Steve Underwood who generously shared this name and domain with the project. We also acknowledge Marc Olivier Chouinard (Moc) for setting the entire project in motion. The project name was changed because of a conflict with software from the Voicetronix company with the same name. We hope to work with Voicetronix and their hardware in the future.

There were a lot of creative name candidates, and a lot of creative ideas but CallWeaver was chosen because of how descriptive it is. This project is not only about PBXs or telephony. The incredible amount of work that has gone into faxing and t.38 support is starting to make that evident. We will eventually combine with a lot of other communication technologies like the Web, Instant Messaging, and Extra Sensory Perception once the API is ready.

If you have doubts about the name, take a few moments and do a thesaurus search for synonyms for ‘weave’. Here is a sampling: braid, build, careen, complect, complicate, compose, construct, contrive, create, criss-cross. If those words doesn’t evoke ideas of connecting different communication technologies nothing will.

Most of the project resources will stay the same but will have .callweaver.org instead of .openpbx.org. It may be necessary to re-register for some resources. We will be starting much of the wiki over from scratch, but the SVN repository will be retained in full.

If you are joining us for the first time, welcome home, if you are formerly from openpbx.org, welcome back. It’s time for a fresh start with CallWeaver and another opportunity to create the best open source, highly reliable communications software we can.