[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk introductory talk: Portland, OR USA

[John Todd]

For those of you that are in the Portland, Oregon area:

I am giving a talk today on Asterisk at the PLUG Advanced Topics 
Meeting.  Details below.

JT



>From: "Zot O'Connor" <zot at whiteknighthackers.com>
>To: PLUG LIST <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>,
>    PLUG Announcement List <plug-announce at pdxLinux.org>
>Organization: White Knight Hacklers
>Subject: [PLUG] 2nd Announcement: Advanced Linux SIG - 7PM Wednesday Aug 20th
>  --"Asterkisk PBX"
>Reply-To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:56:21 -0700
>
>Please note the new location (JAX).
>
>John Todd will talk on
>"Asterisk: Open-Source VoIP Telephony in 3 Beer's Time Or Less"
>
>
>General guidelines will be:
>
>   - Asterisk: introduction
>   - Goals of the project
>   - license notes from Digium
>   - Two brief implementation notes: enterprise and home examples
>   - what asterisk isn't
>   - components: hardware and software
>   - components: channels, configuration files, how it is a voice router
>   - what is VoIP: SIP, H.323, MGCP
>   - hardware: capi, modem, zap analog, zap digital
>   - requirements to run Asterisk
>   - applications:
>     - answering machine
>     - IVR
>     - VoIP gateway to upstream providers
>     - follow-me calling
>     - call screening
>     - voice interaction front-end to anything you want
>     - outbound call generator
>     - call center applications
>     - toll avoidance trunking for switching platforms
>     - etc. etc. etc. as time permits
>   - gotchas, readmes, caveats about the system
>   - resource list
>
>Time:
>         7pm
>
>Date:
>         Wednesday Aug 20th, 2003
>
>Location:
>         Jax [Restaurant]
>         110 SW Yamhill St.
>         Portland, OR
>
>         On the MAX Line, next to Bally's Fitness.  This is around the
>         corner from Paddy's about
>        
>        
>There will be food, alcohol, and much technical discussion.
>
>Projector:
>
>         I do need a project still.  I plan on bringing the one that
>         needs a power supply fix (really I am), so if you can bring 
>a projector please
>         email me.  Thanks!
>
>--
>Zot O'Connor
>
>http://www.ZotConsulting.com
>http://www.WhiteKnightHackers.com