[lug] What would you like to know about Asterisk?

[Chip Atkinson]

I'd like to second Michael's desire to see meetings on the web site.
Years ago my schedule changed so I can't make it to meetings anymore.
That doesn't mean that I"m not interested. 

It would be a great way to keep up with the interesting LUG meeting
topics.

Chip

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 15:12 -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > Next month I'm going to be talking at BLUG about Asterisk.  In order to
> > tune the talk to the audience, I'd like to hear what kinds of things the
> > list members would like to hear about.
> 
> Being in the 'Springs I can never make it to BLUG, so if possible could
> you record or transcribe the meeting and post it to the web site?
> Personally, I'd like to know if I could use Asterisk as a filtering
> system on our land lines at home.  I'd like to be able to either disable
> the phones at certain times or pick up the phone when it recognizes the
> incoming number and play an "out of service" tone.  This is to try and
> prevent a collection agency from annoying us (they've got the wrong guy
> but haven't taken us off their automated calling system).
> 
> Also, what kind of off the shelf PC hardware works with this?  The
> Asterisk site lists Digium's harware but I was wondering if simply modem
> cards would suffice for the simplest configurations.
> 
> If I can figure out how to use it at home I might consider taking into
> work to extend the services we have there.  A loooong time ago I worked
> for Nortel programming PBXs, but that was a looooooong time ago and I
> was much younger....
> 
> -- 
> Michael J. Hammel                               
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