On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:

I would love to see an asterisk talk, but it's a HUGE subject that would be best broken up into multiple shorter talks.

Perhaps start with what is asterisk and what can it do for me, perhaps with some use cases. That alone could easily fill an hour.

Then maybe do a talk on, how to make an answering machine that is way overkill for my house.

Then maybe go into setting up a simple, no frills, SOHO phone system.

...etc...etc.. keep them down to an hour or less and that way they are easier to prepare for and easier to digest for the audience.

Asterisk is one of those subjects that is very easy to feel like you took a drink from the fire hose.

Brian Cluff

On 05/01/2013 04:52 PM, JD Austin wrote:

I'd love to do an Asterisk/Freepbx presentation again; when I have
'spare time'.
I did one a long time ago but I'd want to have a lot longer since it is
way too much material to cram into 2 hours; ideally I think it would be
more fun if it were hands on and the participants actually set up their
own PBX in a virtual machine. Asterisk and AMP (2004) have come a long
way since 2003... some distributions such as PBXinaFlash and Elastix
(Trixbox doesn't keep up) make it a lot easier to get started and much
easier to manage. I have enough telephony hardware in my home office
to set up a couple PBX systems on real hardware; would need space to lay
it all out.

Anyway.. something that I've had on my mind for awhile.

JD

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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com
<mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> wrote:

On 05/01/2013 03:33 PM, JD Austin wrote:

I've always wanted to get more involved with plug since I have a
passion
for and have been using Linux since '93; I've mostly lurked on
this list
for years. Linux is 10000% easier to install, use, and

I think we could come up with 25 floppy disks full of slackware if
you want to check the math on that... at least of the the disks will
probably be bad causing you to have to start from scratch too :)

configure than it was when I started; rock solid stable too.
I manage
to load up my life with work, business, teaching, and taking
classes so
I have no time to attend :(
I need to make time :)

At least make time to join us at the dinner (aka C.A.T Chat About
Technology) after the regular meeting or at Stammtisch... you do
leave time in your life to eat, don't you hehehe

Brian

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