All posts by Alan Quayle

Developer Spotlight: Ben Klang, Mojo Lingo

Ben Klang has been fascinated with communication technology since before he can remember. He has participated in (Real Time Communication) RTC-related startups, contributed to several Open Source projects such as Asterisk, FreeSWITCH and ejabberd; leads the Adhearsion project (an Open Source real-time communications application framework), and even picked up an Amateur Radio license. Experienced with … Continue reading Developer Spotlight: Ben Klang, Mojo Lingo

Announcing Voxbone as TADHack Technology Partner

Voxbone is supporting TADHack as a technology partner. They are a critical technology behind several API providers such as 2600Hz, Plivo, Aculab Cloud and Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden. Voxbone is the market leader in providing worldwide geographical and toll-free telephone numbers (aka DIDs, Direct Inward Dialing). Voxbone enables cloud communications providers, global carriers and enterprises … Continue reading Announcing Voxbone as TADHack Technology Partner

Announcing Metaswitch as TADHack Technology Partner

Metaswitch is supporting TADHack as a technology partner. They are a critical technology behind several of the sponsors. Metaswitch is leading the change in communication networks to a cloud-based, software-centric future. They develop openly programmable communication software that runs on standard hardware or in virtualized environments. Metaswitch’s Project Clearwater is an open-source IMS (IP Multimedia … Continue reading Announcing Metaswitch as TADHack Technology Partner

Developer Spotlight: Thomas Howe, Textgen

    Thomas Howe, CEO of TextGen, is a driving force in IP communications and communication enabled business processes. His latest company, TextGen automates interactive texting conversations between large brands and the consumers that need their help. Thanks to TextGen, one day soon, people will say how hard it was to get in touch with … Continue reading Developer Spotlight: Thomas Howe, Textgen

Developer Spotlight: Thomas Quintana

Continuing the series of Developer Spotlights to promote developers who have signed up to the hackathon, we interviewed Thomas Quintana.  We hope these spotlights help all developers involved in TADHack raise their profile in the industry and discover new projects and opportunities.  Some of Thomas’s projects include: Restcomm, sipme-media-server, declarative-fsm, and freepy. What are some … Continue reading Developer Spotlight: Thomas Quintana

Geeks Without Bounds an accelerator for humanitarian projects

TADHack is partnering with Geeks Without Bounds (GWOB) an accelerator for humanitarian projects. Below is a nice video that introduces GWOB.  We are fortunate to have leading the humanitarian development theme at TADHack Johnny “Diggz” Higgins an entrepreneur, musician, filmmaker and founder of Geeks Without Bounds.  On Twitter: @johnnydiggz. Humanitarian response is a long-standing community … Continue reading Geeks Without Bounds an accelerator for humanitarian projects

Developer Spotlight: Fabrizio Bartolini, Imbarco

Fabrizio Bartolini of Imbarco was the first developer registration to TADHack, so we asked him some questions.  He will be in Barcelona during MWC 2014 in case you are also there, and can be reached at: http://cms.imbarco.com/contact-us or via phone: +44 20 3322 6005. We’ll be doing many more developer spotlights, to help the community … Continue reading Developer Spotlight: Fabrizio Bartolini, Imbarco

Ubuntu / Canonical is Latest TADHack Sponsor

Canonical have just confirmed as the latest TADHack (Telecom Application Developer Hackathon) sponsor. At TADSummit last year Maarten Ectors presented how Ubuntu and Juju Charms enable new telecom services to be launched in minutes; the presentations are here, and the video from the developer sessions is shown below.  At TADHack developers will be able to … Continue reading Ubuntu / Canonical is Latest TADHack Sponsor

Welcome to TADHack

TADHack (Telecom Application Developer Hackathon) is a global event, created and driven by the grassroots of the industry to help developers discover the latest ways to add communications to their application, services and business processes. And compete for $20k in prize money. It is unique because it brings together all relevant telecom application development tools … Continue reading Welcome to TADHack