[Asterisk-Users] Help with questions for initial Asterisk wizard (GUI)

[Steve Totaro]

This is a great idea.  I have a good understanding of Asterisk but would use
this for initial setup if it were quick and easy, then go in and tweak the
settings.

This is especially good for a client that would like total ownership and
admin over the product but do not have the time or desire to ascend the
fairly steep learning curve of Asterisk.  Most network admins I know don't
like having an outsider come in to admin a machine on their network (myself
included).

You will experience alot of negativity from people that would like to see
themselves as the "Best" or the "Master" of anything and feel threatened if
something promises to take that away from them.  This is their crutch to
feel "Special" in the world.  To that I say Bahhhh!

Thanks,
Steve Totaro


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PJ Welsh" <pj at cassens.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Help with questions for initial Asterisk
wizard (GUI)


> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:40:36AM -0500, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> >
> > What point do you feel that a user is too advanced to us your wizard, or
> > at what point do you think a user of your wizard will be more pissed at
> > being hindered by the product than helped?
> >
> > I'm not trying to insult you, or necessarily put down what you want to
> > do. I just feel that it is way to simplistic to think a wizard will make
> > anyone happy but a small fraction of users. If you
> >
> > -- 
> > Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>
>
> Good suggestions for changing his program.
>
> I strongly believe this kind of "coddling" will be helpfull to many more
people that you expect. First, a large number of people are coming in with
the "I saw * and want to try to do a ??? phone" or "I have a X100P and want
to do". Those are realy (according to you old timers) trivial. Most of them
are looking for help getting started...here is that start. Many will only
need to run through a simple config and can them look at the conf files for
more "advanced" setups.
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