R.I.P. Kazoo

[gdane]

Curious how many folks here are actually using Kazoo commercially in production. IMO in light of recent developments, the only path forward with Kazoo is to fork the project so that the community can continue to maintain it and ideally also advance it. Not much sense in doing this if there aren't many actual active commercial deployments.
Also curious if there is a more active Kazoo community forum than this one.

 

[KNERD]

Curious how many folks here are actually using Kazoo commercially in production. IMO in light of recent developments, the only path forward with Kazoo is to fork the project so that the community can continue to maintain it and ideally also advance it. Not much sense in doing this if there aren't many actual active commercial deployments.
Also curious if there is a more active Kazoo community forum than this one.

The official Kazoo forum is where is there is more activity.

However, due to 2600Hz constant delays with their Marketplace, and Kazoo, the forum is quite dead now. Maybe people have moved on to other things.

 

[KNERD]

At this point, I think the Kazoo/2600Hz brands are dead.

The KazooCon site is now gone, and all the videos of the KazooCon events are all "unlisted" on YouTube.

It does not take 4+ years to bring a marketplace to fruition. and nearly zero updates Kazoo version 5.

In addition

Ooma Acquires 2600Hz, Inc., A Leader in Communications Applications For Service Providers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 23, 2023--Ooma, Inc., a smart communications platform for businesses and consumers, today announced that it has acquired 2600Hz, Inc., a leader in modern and flexible business communications applications targeted at resellers and carriers, for approximately $33 million...

finance.yahoo.com

Ooma is a SaaS company, thus I don't see open source project happening with them

 

[fmateo05]

At this point, I think the Kazoo/2600Hz brands are dead.

The KazooCon site is now gone, and all the videos of the KazooCon events are all "unlisted" on YouTube.

It does not take 4+ years to bring a marketplace to fruition. and nearly zero updates Kazoo version 5.

In addition

Ooma Acquires 2600Hz, Inc., A Leader in Communications Applications For Service Providers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 23, 2023--Ooma, Inc., a smart communications platform for businesses and consumers, today announced that it has acquired 2600Hz, Inc., a leader in modern and flexible business communications applications targeted at resellers and carriers, for approximately $33 million...

finance.yahoo.com

Ooma is a SaaS company, thus I don't see open source project happening with them

https://discord.gg/t8KFw6W5 -- A fork now has been surged since few months ago

 

[krzykat]

Yes, it is important to make sure you have all the original source, as it is my understanding that a fork will disappear if the original is removed as well. Grab copies to insure its survival.

 

[KNERD]

Yes, it is important to make sure you have all the original source, as it is my understanding that a fork will disappear if the original is removed as well. Grab copies to insure its survival.

I think it is more like abandonware at this point

 

[wardmundy]

Yes, it is important to make sure you have all the original source, as it is my understanding that a fork will disappear if the original is removed as well. Grab copies to insure its survival.

Looks like it's already gone. Anyone have a copy? I'll make it a permanent home.

 

[kenn10]

Looks like a lot (maybe) of it is here:

2600Hz KAZOO and Monster UI

Turn-key Telco. 2600Hz KAZOO and Monster UI has 152 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

github.com

 

[wardmundy]

Looks like a lot (maybe) of it is here:

2600Hz KAZOO and Monster UI

Turn-key Telco. 2600Hz KAZOO and Monster UI has 152 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

github.com

Using a browser, you can download the 1.76GB tarball of all the public repos here.

 

[hecatae]

Using a browser, you can download the 1.76GB tarball of all the public repos here.

Including Bluebox, ho hum, Windows 11 believe it contains a virus.

Most up to date fork
https://github.com/markxfl/kazoo last week

 

[kenn10]

Including Bluebox, ho hum, Windows 11 believe it contains a virus.

Most up to date fork
https://github.com/markxfl/kazoo last week

Yes. Norton flagged it as containing a dangerous virus as well.

 

[wardmundy]

No idea about the virus alert. All of them were downloaded from GitHub without a virus alert and then compressed on my end. I wonder if they've blacklisted Internxt which hosts thousands of users, many of which probably upload nasty stuff.

I'm creating a new link here to the latest kazoo.tar.gz which was made from the @hecatae GitHub link above. See if you get another virus alert with this one. If not, I'll blow away the previous file. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[kenn10]

I'm creating a new link here to the latest kazoo.tar.gz which was made from the @hecatae GitHub link

Norton does not complain about that one. It downloaded cleanly.

The original one caused this response:

 

[wardmundy]

Like I said, they host thousands of users' data so I'm sure some of them contain malware. NOT OURS.

I'm puzzled why they would allow one download and not the other one. But I'll delete it just in case.

 

[fmateo05]

Hi there.

I am looking for some deep information about their Provisioner (kazoo provisioner), Pricing and their availability. Does someone can provide more details?

 

[kenn10]

2600Hz White Label Unified Communications Solutions

2600Hz offers award-winning UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, mobile, and remote collaboration solutions that can be white-labeled for your business.

www.2600hz.com

 

[fmateo05]

hmm.. need to further find some info; that section page shows the main info about them....

 

[kenn10]

You may need to call or email:

2831 St. Rose Parkway
Suite 200
Henderson, Nevada 89052
United States
[email protected]+1 415 886 7900

 

[fmateo05]

You may need to call or email:

2831 St. Rose Parkway
Suite 200
Henderson, Nevada 89052
United States
[email protected]+1 415 886 7900

Ok, going to call them soon ; I expect the timezone helps

 

[fmateo05]

Ok. I still don't have enough info for them about the provisioning feature. Which else or any other options do you know or recommend?