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| Agenda for the Live Conference Series |
| Monday, December 01 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
See the Google Calendar for schedules now More information: |
After summer 2008 we began using Google Calendar to list topics. |
| Friday, September 26 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
VoIP Users Conference Get the Flash Player to see this player. Download MP3 (right-click, "save link as") More information: |
Asterisk and Skype forever |
| Friday, August 22 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
VoIP Users Conference More information: |
More on voice over the public Internet |
| Friday, August 15 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
OPSIS Embedded, Polycom, Doorbell switchs More information: |
way too many things to put here! |
| Friday, August 08 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
SIP URI dialing, Polycom More information: |
Once again, too many interesting paths were taken to sum them up in a small text filed. Download the file and listen to it on your next 2 hour trip! |
| Friday, August 01 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
SIP phones, Polycom, Aastra, Snom, Linksys, etc. More information: |
A very wide range of subjects was covered in this call. Glad we are back on the air with a great group! |
| Friday, July 11 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
SIP and the love/hate relationship More information: |
A-list VoIP blogger and podcaster Dan York popped in to give good insight into some of the problems and their solutions. Check out some of his work at his blog and on the Alec Saunder's SquawkBox conferences. You will probably be interested in Dan's Blue Box podcast on VoIP as well. |
| Friday, July 04 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
The S Word: Security More information: |
VoIP Security is becoming a real challenge. Kristian Kielhofner, Tim Panton, Michael Graves and some of the usual crowd joined us for this 4th of July celebration. The second part of the discussion is also available for download. |
| Friday, June 27 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Multiple asterisk instances More information: |
We discuss using several asterisk implementations for specialized purposes, i.e., one for voicemail, one for conferences, etc. JR Richardson has promised to join us to share some of his experience in clustering for scalability: |
| Friday, June 20 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Motorcycles, 911, Skypee robot More information: |
Unorganized, but it happened in the midst of a lot of unopened cardboard moving boxes. |
| Friday, June 13 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
New Asterisk-based Appliance More information: |
This Friday the 13th we’ll be hearing about the newest Asterisk appliance on the block the Vdex-40 from Technoco. TAA.com are the USA distributors and Dean Collins is helping them launch their efforts with their USA/Canada sales push. Participants on Fridays call will be given a 7 day time limited url where they can purchase a single ‘demo’ appliance at 40% off rrp. Dial in this Friday to find out more. |
| Friday, June 06 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Centrex and other hosted solutions More information: |
My own company is moving and I've decided to try a centrex for our telephony needs rather than keep running a machine at the office. I hope everyone with an interest in this space will chime in with advice and help. |
| Friday, May 30 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Asterisk Tag, Zaptel name change, encryption More information: |
A little about Asterisk Tag, earlier this week, some interviews, too. John Todd's first visit since his new gig began. We spoke of encryption. Also the Zaptel name change and why it's no big deal. This actually ended at 9PM, a record! Only the first hour is recorded. |
| Friday, May 23 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Going Fast and Big with VoIP More information: |
After many requests, we finally have someone to talk on large scale implementation of VoIP systems with asterisk. Using a farm of Asterisk and Digium cards, tens Of Thousands of simultaneous calls can be made and Mike Trest has offered to take it all apart for us to look inside. |
| Friday, May 16 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Click to Call More information: |
Tringme has released their new API that enables Click 2 Call via a simple Flash widget. They also have mobile clients for various Nokia tablets and handsets. Great talking to Tim Panton from PhoneFromHere.com again about his take on C2C and how they are handling it with Java. |
| Friday, May 09 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Dean Collins about the Asterisk ecosystem and 3rd party apps More information: |
Dean Collins offered to chair this call, the purpose of which is to discuss the community’s feelings about an Asterisk 3rd party developed commercial software sales licensing platform. The plan is that some form of documented published schema be implemented that will allow for 3rd party software developers to sell their software applications using a common licensing model similar to the way G729 licenses are sold by Digium. |
| Friday, May 02 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Diverse and Sundry More information: |
A diverse discussion touching on SIP DECT phones, embedded systems, cost of memory and some tales of VoIP by a new member who will be presenting some subjects such as scaling in a few weeks. |
| Friday, April 25 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
DRUID OSE 1.0.2 More information: |
Great call with the Voiceroute team! Check out the live Demo of DRUID OSE
New features added |
| Friday, April 18 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Click 2 Call More information: |
Ted Gibson of 1ezcall.com stops by to chat. Interesting stuff. |
| Friday, April 11 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Fax part 1 More information: |
Terry from Pika about their fax solutions (see site for a free license) and a lot more. |
| Friday, April 11 at 01:00 PM (Eastern US)
Fax part 2 More information: |
Second part of the fax discussion |
| Friday, April 04 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Cory Andrews (VOIP Supply) More information: |
We talked about Polycom (and our love-hate relationship with them, they've gotten better apparently), DECT SIP and SIP WiFi, applicances and other topical stuff. Check it out. Also check out Voipsupply Blog And Cory's Blog |
| Friday, March 28 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Astlinux: Kristian Kielhofner More information: |
Kristian Kielhofner, creator of astlinux joined us for a full two hours. Among some of the stuff covered: - AstLinux History - How/why the project started -- Some other uses we see regularly - Web GUI philosophy -- Toolkit: build your own - Recent Developments lots more. Thanks to Kristian, Darrick and everyone else who contributed to that discussion! |
| Friday, March 21 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Voiceroute More information: |
Druid has matured quite a bit in the past 2 years. Since then, we have taken a focus on unified communications (UC) and open sourced our code with a more community based approach. Druid OSE (Open Source Edition) is now available for download at http://www.voiceroute.org We believe in "Open Source Unified Communications" that is defined by a community of users and developers, and Asterisk is an important part of Druid OSE. Please check us out. If you have any feedback or opinions, please feel free to share it with us. People from voiceroute on the call: |
| Friday, March 14 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Guest: Cory Andrews More information: |
Cory's details soon. |
| Friday, March 07 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Guest: Pika Technologies More information: |
See the SLIDES for this presentation. PIKA Technologies has been designing voice processing hardware and software building blocks for more than 20 years. Over the past two years, we have developed a portfolio of products for the Asterisk community. Products include a low, medium and high density analog and digital (T1/E1) boards, a brand new Appliance for Asterisk as well as a reliable software fax alternative. |
| Friday, February 29 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Guest: Aastra on DECT/SIP Phones More information: |
Francisco Palacios presents Aastra’s SIP-DECT solution, a recently launched mobility solution that offers superior levels of interference-free performance, enhanced security, seamless handover and roaming support in a cordless SIP telephone system. This solution can be easily deployed in most Open Source PBX. System architecture, deployment considerations and network sizing/capacity topics will be covered during this presentation. This talk will be aimed at telephony/system integrators, but anybody in the IP telephony arena will benefit from it. |
| Friday, February 22 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
ISPBX and COGOBLUE More information: |
COGO is the visual, drag & drop configuration tool for Asterisk PBX systems.The concept is simple: use easily identifiable icons to represent components and features of the PBX system, drag & drop the icons onto a pane and arrange them to get the configuration you want. Save your work and COGO automatically generates the Asterisk configuration files. A simple concept with powerful results: that's COGO. |
| Friday, February 15 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
IVR and Speech Recognition with Lumenvox More information: |
Third session in the IVR series with Lumenvox speech recognition technologies. |
| Friday, February 15 at 01:10 PM (Eastern US)
Part II: Xorcom, Asterisk Appliance, DECT, Aastra, etc More information: |
Part 2 of the recording with tzafrir from xorcom.com |
| Friday, February 08 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Allison Smith and the world of IVR Voice Overs More information: |
Allison Smith is fun, and that would be reason enough to have her with us, but she also is the most visible and most experienced actor in the Asterisk world. |
| Friday, February 01 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
IVR with Metaphor Solutions More information: |
M. Mobeen Khan of MetaphorIVR.com: "Plug & Play IVR On-Demand" will join us. The talk will focus on examples of speech IVR applications and how customers can deploy these with Asterisk. |
| Friday, January 25 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Fiber to the home, Tim's QoS, Digium asterisk trademark, etc More information: |
Allnet SIP/IAX hardphone. I should have one next week. This wxeek, about the Digium trademark thing and a lot of other miscellaneous topics too numerous to cover in this blurb ;) |
| Friday, January 18 at 01:00 PM (Eastern US)
Guests: Junction Networks and OnSIP More information: |
Junction Netowrks CEO Mick Oeth will present OnSIP, a "completely customizable sip network for hosted pbx,
virtual pbx or any business communication need. OnSIP takes SIP to the next level, with free domain hosting, support for any SIP device, no user fees or seat licenses".
(One hour later than the usual time) |
| Friday, January 11 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Geeks with VoIP problems More information: |
We debugged the Talkshoe.com SIP conference bridge with the help of Aaron, Talkshoe product manager. Otherwise, rants about AT&T, notices about asterisk 1.4 and as always, juicy tidbits including the Asterisk Bootcamp. |
| Saturday, January 05 at 01:00 AM (Eastern US)
Allison and Mark, AfterHours Special More information: |
After Hours, Allison called in and surprised us with a few funny anecdotes and promises to come back and see us another day. |
| Friday, January 04 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Guest: Mark Spencer |
Mark talks about IAX, the appliance (3COM), NTT and Allison. Allison gets her revenge by join-ing the call in part II. |
| Friday, December 28 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
The Year 2007 in VOIP in review and 2008 wish list More information: |
what were the significant events and products of 2007? What are we wishing to happen in 2008? |
| Friday, December 21 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
Fonality explains the script issue More information: |
Kerry Garrison of Fonality bravely faced the lynch mob and we think he did a great job explaining what the history of phone home script was and how they recated and learned from it. If only all companies were this forthcoming!
Join us at the VOIP Users Conference Community Network |
| Friday, December 14 at 12:45 PM (Eastern US)
What is Trixbox up to? More information: |
Trixbox script discussion, what are they thinking? What is "COIP"? Join us at the VOIP Users Conference Community Network |
| Friday, December 07 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
TringMe! and the rest of the voip News More information: |
I've been testing TringMe and it really works! Here's a Tech Crunch Article to get an idea of the general scene. |
| Friday, December 07 at 01:15 PM (Eastern US)
Friday Dec 7th 2007 Volume 2 : The Hairpin Years More information: |
This is a recording of the post conference which "degenerated" into an intelligent discussion!
Join us at the VOIP Users Conference Community Network |
| Friday, November 30 at 12:00 PM (Eastern US)
IAX, hardphones, softphones, embedded systems and pbx hardware |
We talked about the asterisk version/distro survey data,IAX, hardware phones, ATA, tiny applicance like pbx hardware |
| Friday, November 23 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Video, callerID spoofing, WiMax, spit, etc More information: |
About video, CallerID spoofing, questions for Mark SPencer's January 4th visit, fiber to the home, WiMax and a whole bunch of other voip and asterisk related subjects. The conference is informal and we meet at the Ning VOIP Users COnference Social Network site too, in order to communicate better. |
| Friday, November 16 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
DialPlan and AGI: CID lookup with popup at terminal More information: |
Dave C has posted a cool AGI example here. He'll be on the conference to discuss it and answer questions. AGO is a deep subject, and it is an important part of the dialplan. |
| Saturday, November 10 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Chan_mobile, CallMe, asterisk for the Home User More information: |
A wide range of topics including asterisk for home users (why?), CallMe, a new service from Australia, chan_something that was bluetooth, cellphone and now mobile and lots of other asterisk and voip news. |
| Friday, November 02 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Dialplan, IRQ Share problems |
The dialplan is really the heart of any asterisk installation. If you use a GUI, it serves to hide the config files, and the dialplan in extensions.conf is probably the most important of these. We talk about context, extensions and applications. |
| Friday, October 26 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Chanskype, Jabber, Dynamic ip, random rants... |
All kinds of the usual not too overly organized asterisk and voIP info as well as a few random rants. A great group to chat with. New video phones from Grandstream and Ojo, experiences trying to hook Skype up to Asterisk (and why you might want to do this). |
| Friday, October 19 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Appliances, diskless systems, DISA More information: |
What features would your dream appliance have? We try to assemble a book sized asterisk box. Also, DISA and what it's for. IPKall announcement about calling toll free numbers free during their beta rollout. |
| Friday, October 12 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Asterisk calling web API and using SMS |
Use SMS to send commands to asterisk from your cell (or the web). Use the CURL application to access any web API from asterisk. We discuss the astdb, how to save and manipulate data over multiple invocations of asterisk. |
| Friday, October 05 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Asterisk 1.6 + IPKall + Legal Issues |
I hope we'll have some 1.6 beta info this week from Digium. Arick from IPKall will be there to tell us what they've been up to for the last few years and where they're headed. We will also be joined by John Halton of Cripps Harries Hall LLP to discuss how the law is coming to terms with VOIP. |
| Saturday, September 29 at 08:00 AM (Eastern US)
ENUM and e164.org More information: |
Special edition (time zone issues for Australians): Duane from e164.org joins us to talk about what's happening and how we can use and promote http://e164.org |
| Friday, September 28 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
CallerID and why we need to spoof it sometimes |
VOIP Users Conference, a lot about Asterisk. This week, callerID, IPKall kalls in, DECT and lots more. Click on Archive above for the Flash player with all previous conferences. |
| Friday, September 21 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Astricon countdown + AsteriskNOW! More information: |
AsteriskNOW! Who's it for, what's it for? We talk about this, and Astricon, faxing with asterisk, hardware cards like the X100P and TDM400P and a lot of other things you may be inbterested in. Join us every Friday at 12:30 PM Eastern time. |
| Friday, September 14 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Astricon + FaceBook and FWD + DaemonSwitch More information: |
The buzz of Astricon is getting louder, it's almost here! Also, Daneil Berninger tells us about the "rebirth" of FWD (Free World Dialup). FWD brought a lot of people into the asterisk fold as its own voip network is asterisk-driven. DaemonSwitch progress report. |
| Friday, September 07 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
ENUM and Freenum.org + Nufone Beta More information: |
John Todd stopped by to tell us about Freenum.org and how it relates to e164.org and ENUM in a very extensive talk. Also, a word from Jeremy from Nufone.net about their new beta stuff for existing or new members. |
| Thursday, August 30 at 01:00 PM (Eastern US)
Astricon is September 24 - 28, 2007 More information: |
AstriCon is the official conference for Asterisk. AstriCon is for those who are getting started with Asterisk, as well as those who have already discovered the power of open source telephony. AstriCon is also the meeting place for the Asterisk community, a diverse group of users, developers, entrepreneurs, and other fans. |
| Friday, August 24 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Voicepulse Connect + Trixbox Updates + Voip and the Law More information: |
Providers series: VoicePulse Connect, IAX2 specifically for the asterisk community. Ravi Sakaria, VoicePulse co-founder and President/CEO and co-founder/VP Ketan Patel will be with us. Trixbox news, updates, discount codes Planned topics (still working on it) The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, CALEA. What should we know about it?
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| Friday, August 17 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
DUNDI - Trixbox Pro More information: |
About DUNDI with JR Richardson, Chief Technology officer, Ntegrated Solutions. Mr. Richardson has 11+ years in Telecommunications and 22+ years in the Advanced Electronics field. Using DUNDI with Trixbox. Also, Trixbox Pro, how does this affect the free versions? |
| Friday, August 10 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
More TDM and connecting outside the box More information: |
A continuation of last week with more about TDM cards and IAX hardphones, firmware, etc. Note the link to the PA1688 Yahoo Group Kerry Garrison of Fonality with some exciting news about Trixbox and their asterisk 1.4/Centos 5 release expected next week. Also: News from JerJer at Nufone. |
| Friday, August 03 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
TDM and connecting outside the box |
This was about ATA devices, TDM cards and devices and hardphones. We got into some talk about the PA1688 chipset used in SIP/IAX hardphones. Here's an example of these SIP/IAX hardphones from Yuxin. |
| Friday, July 06 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Mark Spencer answers users More information: |
Mark Spencer came by the office and did a video simulcast on the new Mogulus Asterisk TV channel. |
| Friday, June 08 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
New Asterisk book by Stefan Wintermeyer More information: |
Recently, there have been several exciting releases in the world of Asterisk books. We invited Stefan on the conference to discuss his latest addition, The Asterisk Book. |
| Friday, May 18 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Speech Recognition with Lumenvox More information: |
Lots to learn about this area of asterisk and Lumenvox is working with Digium to make it possible to use the technology with even very small businesses. An interesting hour! |
| Friday, May 11 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Nufone's Jeremy More information: |
JerJer shared some secrets of how to get asterisk running by using minimum services. Discussions about all kinds of asterisk related products and services. How national telco monopolies are losing power (fortunately!) to create opportunity in Canada and Europe. |
| Sunday, April 29 at 12:30 PM (Eastern US)
Jay Phillips of Adhearsion.com More information: |
Adhearsion is an exciting new Ruby framework that ties technology together. Adhearsion is designed to understand and bring together all of the varying elements involved with VOIP. An informative conference indeed! |
