[Asterisk-Users] 'Asterisk for Small Office Setup'

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Jay Milk wrote:

> Surely you mean "grammar"?  Sorry, I just had to point that out :)
> 
> Personally, I'd take issue with the title -- if you need to do a
> "small-office" setup by-the-book, then chances are you're not
> resourceful enough to find the required information online -- and if you
> can't even find the basics online, once something doesn't go
> quite-as-planned, you're stuck up the creek without a paddle.  
> 
> I propose to write a five-page pamphlet based on the excellent "Getting
> Started With Asterisk" guide that simply lists what you can do with
> Asterisk; what you need in terms of hardware and SKILLs; then walks you
> through a basic setup "from scratch" and lists where you can find more
> information online.  This would be a worthwhile pursuit once 1.0 is
> done.

Jay,
	This would be a great pamphlet to have. I believe that Cuban (on 
IRC #asterisk) is working on something similar that he was using as a 
"brief" for potential Asterisk consumers. Combining your idea with his 
would be wonderful.
	I'm going to be giving a presentation at the Ohio Linuxfest 
(http://www.ohiolinux.org) entitled "Asterisk: VoIP for the Masses" and a 
pamphlet handout would be just awesome to give people as a take-home. 
Something that can give the rationale and logic behind using Asterisk, as 
well as the basic information for getting the system installed and 
working and then where to look for more information. Heck, I'd probably 
even foot the bill to have them professionally printed, or perhaps even 
allow commercial Asterisk companies (such as Digium) to help sponsor the 
pamphlet.
	For the presentation, one of the things that I'll be doing is 
asking for the Asterisk community to review and comment on my work before 
I actually present at the conference. I want to make sure that it has a 
good, solid peer-review process in place, and that the issues discussed 
are consistent with the community goals. I also want to make sure that I 
highlight as much pre-existing community work as possible to ensure that 
those resources are being taken advantage of by new Asterisk users.

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