'The entire 15-year span of the rich commit history has been preserved, which was critical to making this move,' Evan McGee, CTO at SignalWire, added. 'We were dedicated to preserving the commit history and hashes to keep existing checkouts from breaking, and after a lot of hard work and perseverance, we worked with GitHub to get it done.' 'For years, the FreeSWITCH repository has been hosted in a data center and we couldn't get it into GitHub due to technical reasons related to the git software,' said Chris Rienzo, Director of stack engineering at SignalWire. We've wanted to do this for a long time.' 'We are committed to extending our technology to as large an audience as possible because that's the best way to accelerate innovation. 'This is the moment everyone has been waiting for,' said Minessale.

SignalWire was founded by Anthony Minessale with the mission of democratizing this powerful yet complex technology, and he sees moving the core open-source stack to GitHub as an important step in service of that goal. In doing so, they gained unrivaled expertise in the esoteric field of software-defined telecom. Minessale and team took on the most complex programming problems, creating a software switch capable of seamlessly processing and translating the myriad media formats and protocols involved in real-time communications, designed on a stable and elegantly scalable platform. The project was started in 2005 by CEO Anthony Minessale and a group of developers who had been major contributors to other open-source telecom projects such as the Asterisk PBX. SignalWire's open-source platform is used by most popular commercial cloud communications companies as well as developers and enthusiasts around the world.

This announcement coincides with the 15th anniversary of the project, now widely regarded as the de facto software package for embedding communications capabilities within computer applications. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - SignalWire, Inc., the original geeks of software-defined telecom and primary sponsors of the FreeSWITCH open-source platform, announced today that the project's code is now officially hosted on SignalWire's GitHub repository.

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