Plivo - Developing Telephony Apps in the Web World

Plivo is a Communications Framework written in python to rapidly build voice based apps, to make or receive calls, using your existing web development skills and your existing infrastructure. Next-gen voice apps need to integrate with external entities like DBs, Social Networks, External APIs etc. When apps are written from within a telephony engine, this integration tends to consume a lot of time. Plivo catalyzes this process.

This talk will focus on the major components of Plivo and how it can be used to build powerful communication apps with minimal code and almost no knowledge of telephony.

• History behind Plivo, and challenges in writing telephony apps

• What is Plivo

• What problem does Plivo solve

• How does Plivo Work

• Examples app building using Plivo - Code walkthrough and maybe even a live demo for attendees

I the co-creater and one of the two lead developers of this framework. Plivo has been covered in hackernews and major blogs including RWW and is being used by major companies around the world to shift out of closed platforms like Twilio.com and Tropo.com

You can follow it @plivo on twitter. Also checkout the buzz by searching 'plivo' on twitter and google.

Plivo website - www.plivo.org

PS: Tried filling in the detailed outline outline many times, but the formatting was a nightmare, hence I can send across the detailed outline as a doc in case needed.

Venky is the co-creater and the lead developer of the Open source Communication Framework, Plivo. He is also the founder of Miglu, a start-up working on solutions which unify the web and the telephony worlds together. Venky has been using FreeSWITCH for about 2 years now, and has previously run a retail VoIP calling start-up around it. He has previously been involved with multinational telecom product companies of various sizes, namely, Narus Networks Subex Ltd and Huawei Technologies. He has been using python for the last 2 years for everything including VoIP, web development, system programming. He is also a speaker at the leading Open source User and Developer Conference Cluecon USA this year.(www.cluecon.com)