2. Core Team
Ben Klang Jason Goecke
Chief Visionary @ Verendus VP of Innovation @ Voxeo Labs
bklang@verendus.com jsgoecke@voxeo.com
Twitter @bklang Twitter @jsgoecke
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3. What is Adhearsion?
• A framework for creating telephony applications
• First of its kind
• Written in Ruby
• Connects to SQL, LDAP, XMPP, HTTP
• Speaks REST, JSON,YAML, XML
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4. Why?
•extensions.conf is not a programming language
•Alternatives are Closed and Proprietary
•Non-standard standards (I’m looking at you, AMI)
•Adhearsion brings modern development practices
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6. What are the features provided by Adhearsion?
•Fully open source
•Multimodal voice enabled apps
•Shareable, re-useable components
•Intuitive Domain Specific Language (DSL)
•ORM Support for database-driven voice apps
•Natural use of Ruby and Java (JRuby)
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7. History of Adhearsion...
•Initial Release by Jay Philips (aka Jicksta) -- 2006
•Adhearsion World Tour -- 2007
•Jay Philips and Jason Goecke found Adhearsion, LLC -- December 2008
•Adhearsion joins Voxeo to create Voxeo Labs -- July 2009
•Ben Klang joins the core team -- June 2010
•Tropo AGItate brings second official platform -- September 2010
And at AstriCon in October 2010...
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