Kazoo 
See current announcements for updates on KAZOO master / 5.x work below
Periodically check our announcements for important developer updates!
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Cloud-Based Telecommunications For Everyone
Welcome to Kazoo, an ambitious project to bring cloud-based VoIP and telecommunications to everyone. Our goal is to provide the world with a free, open telecommunications software platform. Released under the OSI-approved MPL 1.1 open source software license, we're building upon strong FOSS components like GNU/Linux, Erlang, FreeSWITCH, Apache CouchDB, and RabbitMQ. Our project is a great example of the wonderful things that can happen when software is open.
What is Kazoo?
Kazoo is an API-based platform that lets you use your existing phones, programming languages and IT skills to build voice, video and SMS services. We focus on building a simple, powerful communications platform and let you focus on marketing, servicing and integrating communications with your clients systems.
Dubbed a "scalable, distributed, cloud-based" telephony platform, Kazoo provides simple to use, consistent API so that people who know little about building telecom systems can still dive in and utilize the power of the phone network. In practical terms that means you can create your own phone service in the cloud. Or on a server in your mother's basement. Or in a distributed cluster of servers around the globe. It's up to you.
Who is 2600Hz?
We're a bunch of crazy engineers who dreamt of a world where business communications wasn't so complicated. So we abandoned the old infrastructure altogether and teamed up to build a new platform from the ground up that would take out all the complexity while giving the power of customization to you, the user.
Led by the founders of successful commercial and open-source telephony and networking projects, our carrier-grade software helps people create solid voice, video and SMS solutions that work. We provide you with the open-source infrastructure to run your own hosted PBX service, conferencing platform or any API-powered VoIP service that scales as your company grows!
We are an exciting team of experienced and knowledgeable thought leaders in the enterprise communications space. Our experience ranges from hosting and managing services to carrier-grade termination, software design and professional services. Let us know how we can help you and, in return, we will ensure 2600Hz is always leading the way in cloud telecom.
Who Can Contribute?
Everyone can!
Not a coder?
No problem! We have many different places where folks can chip in time. These include (but aren't limited to):
- Maintaining and expanding the documentation
- Blogging, tweeting, and other forms of publicizing your usage of and love for the platform, community, code, company, etc.
- Join us in real time and help other community members:
- Help find mistakes and write user guides
- Contribute scripts to the community repo
- Help with building RPMs, DEBs, and other system packages
- Browse the open issues and test bugs to see if they're valid
- Make a suggestion!
I know me some Erlang! How can I contribute?
- Clone the repo
- If you're completely new to Git, read Github's great introduction to forking repos
- Squash a bug, build a feature, etc
- Browse the ticket queue and find one you'd like to tackle.
- Feel free to drop a line in the forums letting us know you're taking on a ticket, especially if you have questions.
- Once you feel the code is ready for inclusion, issue a pull request!
- Please keep your pull requests focused and specific to the task at hand
- If, in the course of your work you add/modify/delete code unrelated to the core task, create a new ticket describing why you've made these additional changes, and issue a separate pull request.
Do you know other languages?
- Help us write some automated testing tools
- Help out with the configuration scripts
- Check out our Javascript/HTML/CSS GUI
- Check out our REST APIs and help us create SDKs in your favorite languages (PHP | PYTHON | RUBY)
- Check out our Pivot APIs and help us create SDKs in your favorite languages
- Check out our AMQP APIs and create a Kazoo application in your favorite language
Building Kazoo
See the installation page to build.
Learn More
- Join us at KazooCon!
- Visit the community site
- Have a look at our:
- Bugs and feature requests can be found here
- Learn you some Erlang!
- Check out the FreeSWITCH documentation
- Take a look at the Kamailio documentation
- Learn all about AMQP basics
- Get introduced to CouchDB/Bigcouch
- Get some pointers to using CouchDB/Bigcouch views
- Learn about GIT branching
- Get familiar with JSON schemas
- Find out about JSON web tokens
- We cover a lot of topics in our blog as well
- Watch our past presentations