Yeah...We're going Open Source!

A brief recap:

Sometime around 2004, the three of us (Eric Erickson, Jong Suk-Lee, Zac Wolfe) decided that we should combine our complementary skills and form a software company focused on delivering software solutions in the CTI space. As we examined the market we saw nothing but high-priced, proprietary vendor-locked solutions that, rather than foster innovation and creativity in its' users, tended to limit flexibility by erecting artificial licensing pay-walls and utilizing other self-serving business practices. Around this time we discovered Asterisk which, along with low-cost hardware, promised to provide many of the cutting-features available in the higher-end proprietary solutions (Avaya, Lucent, Cisco, etc) at a price that many small to medium-sized businesses could afford. However, Asterisk has always lacked a robust, feature-rich, extensible, and easy to use call-flow/IVR development system. Our goal, when we began development in early 2008, was to fill this void.

Now, as of August 2009, we believe we've met and actually exceeded that initial goal. As development progressed the project actually grew in scope as we realized that what we were building could not only be useful for people building telephony applications but for a more general audience as well. A graphical flow-based development environment is well-suited for many tasks that are common to the modern workplace such as batch processing, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), workflow management, scheduling, and many others. Some of the tools required to facilitate such tasks are already available in the current build of SafiServer/SafiWorkshop. However, many more are yet to be developed.

Given our limited time resources (all 3 of us have full-time jobs and other time commitments), we've decided to make all of our current development efforts (SafiServer and SafiWorkshop) freely available under the Open Source GPLv3 license in the hopes that users will not only find our platform useful as is, but also contribute additional functionality to help the product realize its' full potential. Our team is committed to continue development efforts on this product and offer support for developers and users.

So, as of today all of our source code is available under the following 3 SourceForge projects: SafiWorkshop, SafiServer, and SafletCore. More information about how to obtain and build the projects will be forthcoming in the near future and the new "GPL'd" installers for the current builds are available from our main website and on Sourceforge.net.

We think this is a great tool as it stands now but your input and contributions will help us make it even better -- don't hesitate to get involved and post your bugs, suggestions, or code (send a request to info@safisystems.com). We're happy to finally be in a position to give a little something back to the OS community that has been so good to us. Enjoy!

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