Future Meeting ideas
Ideas to present on for future meetings based on desires from atendees and some of my own thoughts:
Basic installation with an FXO line, a soft phone, IP phone and ATA. This could be a fairly in-depth topic and may need to be split into two.
· Probably start out with TrixBox as that seems to be what people are installing.
· Add an FXO Card
· Configure a soft phone
· Make an inbound and outbound call.
· Add an IP phone
· Add an ATA
· Spend a little time discussing NAT issues with RTP.
· Configure Asterisk to live behind NAT
· Get one or more ATA’s working through NAT
· Spend a little time discussing security issues with allowing connections from the public internet.
Discussion of call-forwarding your local PSTN line to a VOIP number.
· Eliminate Echo by reducing the number of 2-4 wire conversions
· Multiple inbound and outbound calls
· Call Forwarding vs. Qwest Followme
Echo Canceling
· Built in Echo Canceling
· High Performance Echo Canceling
· Third Party Software based Echo Canceling
· Hardware based Echo Canceling
Security (Voip-Hacks book)
· Review top 10 security issues
· Try to hack someone’s asterisk system using this book.
Bluetooth Channel Driver
· Compiling
· Installing
· Making inbound and outbound calls
Monthly Dialplan command
· Someone presents for 5 minutes (or more) .
· Different command each month
Speech Recognition
· We’ve done several on text to speech, this is the natural next step.
Database Access
· Using MySQL in the dialplan to get data.
Channel Bank Hardware
· Connecting to the PSTIn with a T1 board and a channel bank
· Using channel banks for analog phones
· New and used prices and markets.
How do you spell Asterisk and VoIP?
How do you say each of them?
Voip
Voip is the future of telephony and communication i guess and a lot of money will be made with business voip service
That looks like a great list
That looks like a great list of ideas to work off of!
Something that interests myself is extending Asterisk with web technology. How can we extend Asterisk with for example PHP web based applications. And how to create AGI applications.
Not sure if this is something we could organize but what about creating work flow for the meetings. Our next meeting could be another "intro to Asterisk/Trixbox/AsteriskNOW" to get started, then after that we move into securing asterisk, the following month could be creating logical dial plans, then extending Asterisk with AGI or web applications, and so on. If we had a work flow members could start from the beginning, get a box up and running, and then follow along each month knowing that they will be learning off of the foundation built in the earlier months.
Thoughts?
Workflow Idea
Blake, that's a great idea. Basically, build a system that can be improved over time, rather than starting over every time. Certainly, we'll want to do new-user-installs, but we can do that on another machine.
What we need to do is get somebody to host it and keep it online.
Can you give us some more ideas about the web integration you'd like to do? I have one example I can show where you go to a website and you can see where my truck is on a map. I can dial into a number and make it public or hidden. Is that the type of application you are thinking of?
Web Apps
I'm interested in anything that people are doing to extend Asterisk beyond just a PBX. As I start looking for a house to get into instead of an apartment I keep thinking well I could tie my home automation into my phone to do this, or I could have an extension that I dial and use dictate to create a grocery list, etc.
Unfortunately I won't be at this months meeting, going to be sitting on a beach in Cancun!