DARK! Re: [TriLUG] Reminder: Meeting TONIGHT - Voice over IP

[Jon Carnes]

For those of you turned away by the Darkness (and that may be all of
us...), here are a few links that you might have found interesting:

http://www.asterisk.org/index.php?menu=features

Asterisk is an Open Source PBX that is developed on Linux and runs on an
ordinary PC. It's totally GPL'ed and it does VoIP right out of the box -
no need to add anything.

Asterisk is developed and maintained (and supported) by some great folks
at Digium

http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=faq#General_0

The Asterisk PBX does a lot more than VoIP.  It also has built-in
Voicemail and the ability to handle standard analog phones as well as a
variety of standard PBX components. It comes with programmable
AutoAttendent, ACD, call groups, programmable call flow, a web-portal
for accessing Voicemail and phone features, etc...

There is also a very well organized user community that supports
Asterisk.  The wiki for the group is here:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk

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I also want to thank FeatureTel for sponsoring tonights Pizza

http://www.featuretel.com/how-featuretel-works.html

FeatureTel provides businesses with phone service using a Hybrid version
of VoIP called Hosted Telephony, in which the customers talk to
FeaturTel's switches using VoIP transmitted over a private data line
(that is also used for intenet access).  FeatureTel's switches are then
connected directly to the Publicly Switched Telephone Network.

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Dress warm tonight!

Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:32, Chris Knowles wrote:
> OOoops.
> 
> Turns out there's a power outage at RTI tonight.  The scheduled uptime
> is right around the start of the meeting, but <shrug>...
> 
> So, we (the SC and the speaker) are going to show up there and see
> what's going on.  If you don't want to risk driving a long way to see a
> dark building, don't come.  If you have a bit of adventure in your soul,
> and want to run the risk of eating pizza in the parking lot...  
> 
> CJK
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 15:17, Mike Johnson wrote:
> > Remember folks, meeting tonight!
> > 
> > Here's the announcement again:
> > The January meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) will be
> > Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 7:00pm in Dreyfus Auditorium at RTI.
> > Our topic for the January meeting will be Using Voice Over IP with Linux, 
> > presented by TriLUG member Jon Carnes.  
> > 
> > Directions:
> > http://www.trilug.org/dreyfus_directions.php
> > 
> > See y'all then!
> > 
> > Mike