With launching our official Discourse forum, we want to take this opportunity to get to know each other better. So we’ve created this space for you to share who you are, what you are working on, and maybe what kinds of things you like to do!
For example:
Who are you?
What do you do for work?
How do you use SignalWire or FreeSWITCH?
What do you do for fun? (See ‘What kind of geek are you?!’)
Hi everybody 
I have no idea if I’m supposed to introduce myself or not (nobody else but the company members seems to have done so?..) — mods, feel free to delete or move this post elsewhere, as appropriate! — but here it goes…
Ok, four questions to answer… hmm. This is more difficult than I thought!
- Who I am. Well, this is the easiest question for most people out there, but actually not for me! Gwyneth Llewelyn is just the name that I’m mostly called but it’s not my real name. In fact, not only I’m not Welsh, but I can’t actually pronounce my own name correctly (Welsh being a rather difficult language). I have some Celtic heritage on my Portuguese side, and my mother is German. That said… that’s all you’ll get to know about myself
- What I do for work. That’s another difficult one! I’m mostly self-employed and currently working on one of the companies which I helped to found, eons ago. It’s called Beta Technologies, it always gets confused with Team BETA — the eVTOL aerospacial startups — but we’re not even closely related: they do electric-powered airplanes, we do 3D interactive content creation for virtual worlds, more specifically Second Life® or it’s OpenSimulator free & open source reverse-engineered clone. While I have lots of administrative roles there (we all do; it’s a tiny company), my main area of work is to put the “interactive” in “interactive content” — which mostly means stitching things together with some programming
- How I use SignalWire or FreeSWITCH. Ah, that’s perhaps the easiest one to answer. You see, virtual worlds like these require some form of backend voice communications, sync’ed to people’s avatars and their position inside the virtual space — you can imagine it as a giant, collaborative teleconference, where people are represented by avatars, and can essentially do whatever they wish in this huge, contiguous 3D environment. They can even have boring teleconferences around a (virtual) office table — like our own team does for our regular meetings, for instance. So… all this requires some voice communication “under the hood”, so to speak. Second Life, being a closed-source backend solution, has relied on Vivox for the past two decades to provide the necessary conectivity, but they’re moving to their own WebRTC-based solution. By contrast, OpenSimulator, being an off-the-shelf FOSS platform, interfaces with whatever you have. Most older communities also use Vivox as well, which used to provide their services under a very generous freemium model, but they have discontinued that offering. Which means that our projects based on OpenSimulator are currently silent (or, rather, they cannot be used with the viewer’s built-in voice telephony solution). Therefore, we need to have a fall-back service — even if it’s something we will use little — that provides a solution that can be used now with the existing SIP/VoIP “legacy” and that can be easily migrated to WebRTC as well. FreeSWITCH seems to be exactly what we need for that!
- What I do for fun. To be honest… I do far too many things! But let’s stick to something simple: I tend to hang around Second Life a lot. There is so much to do, so much to see there! Also, if you’re really not in the mood to walk around, visit things/people, or listen to fascinating live musicians, there is always the choice of having fun by creating your own content
Whew. And that’s it. But you have already wasted too much time if you read this to the end. Thank you! 
Hi there FreeSWITCH community.
About me:
I’m the owner/director of Siperb https://www.siperb.com. It started off as the Browser Phone, an open source WebRTC SIP based Phone (GitHub - InnovateAsterisk/Browser-Phone: A fully featured browser based WebRTC SIP phone for Asterisk), but has now evolved into something more. Siperb not only offers a modified version of the Browser Phone, but also a Mobile version, allowing users to switch easily to mobile. Some of the other flagship features include the ability to transcode calls. We found this transcoding to be a useful feature for the less technical who want to simply plug WebRTC into their existing PBX extensions without modification.
We would like to invite the FreeSWITCH community to try out our Siperb solution on FreeSWITCH. Even though we can test a few things, it’s always useful to get community feedback.
Simply start here: SIPERB | Phone