[Asterisk-Users] [Asterisk-Dev] RE: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisktraining andcertification :: AstriconTraining

[Stefan de Konink]

Hi,

dean collins wrote:
> Here here, a bit of documentation online would cut down considerably the
> traffic on this list asking how to questions.
There is enough information "online" at the moment probably the ability 
to find/search your anwers is very limited. First above anything Wiki's 
are good, it makes it easy for all kind of people to put something 
online. In an ideal situation you want a Wiki 'Expert System' before 
your mailinglist. There is much information online but nobody seems to 
know, or is able to find it. This is not Asterisk related but more a 
general problem of the 21th century.

Microsoft put a kind of question-answer system inside Windows98 (and 
maybe 95) maybe it is not that bad at all to cut down traffic.


I pick a random example:
> Can anybody explain me the difference between monitoring and recording?
> 
> Can I record a conversation during a phone call, e.g., I find that I should note that, and press "7" to record till I press again "7" (or whatever key is good for that.) while the rest of the phone call will be not recorded!
> 
> bye
> 
> Ronald

$ What is your problem related to?
 > difference between monitoring and recording

$ Answer: The actions monitoring and recording differ, while cmd monitor 
records incomming and outgoing channels to different soundfiles, cmd 
record acts as a prompt for voice input.
$ Is this the answer you are looking for?
 > Yes, show examples

$ Good;
cmd monitor ->
  exten => 2060,1,Answer
  exten => 2060,2,Wait(1)
  exten => 2060,3,Monitor(wav,myfilename)
  exten => 2060,4,Meetme(1,ps)

cmd Record ->
[recordings]
exten => 500,1,Festival('Please record your message')
exten => 500,2,Record(mymessage:gsm)
exten => 500,3,Festival('You said')
exten => 500,4,Playback(mymessage)
exten => 500,5,Festival('Press 1 to continue or 2 to change your message')
exten => 500,6,ResponseTimeout(3)

exten => t,1,Festival('Sorry, I did not get that')
exten => t,2,Goto(500,5)

exten => i,1,Festival('Sorry, that is an invalid choice')
exten => i,2,Goto(500,5)

exten => 1,1,System(/bin/mv /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/mymessage.gsm 
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/local/${TIMESTAMP}.gsm)
exten => 1,2,Festival('Thank you, your recording has been saved.')
exten => 1,3,Festival('Press 3 to record another file or 4 to hang up')

exten => 2,1,Goto(500,1)

 > explain cmd Record example

$ Which lines?
.........

(I have no clue if this answer is correct but it is the way I 
interpreted the wiki pages 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20cmd%20Record and 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+monitor)

This isn't even futuristic and probably a xmpp://theanswer@asterisk.org 
makes a nice jabber interface to it.

> Cmon sokal, put the questions and training material online.
I think there is effort in this question/training material and if it was 
released under the GNU Free Documentation License many people would be 
happy. Other people would be able to contribute cases/questions/etc, but 
from a business point of view somebody started this on their own (which 
looks to me a bit strange in a OSS-community), and now have a 'real' 
Asterisk certification for it, so don't bother if you don't like it, 
ofcourse you/we can start a Free Online Asterisk Certification Program.

Someone once told me something about cisco certs, cisco prefers to hire 
non-cisco certified people over cisco-certified people because they 
learned by theirselves the knowledge required to work there. (He was 
core designer... without any certs). Don't know if it is true, but I do 
like the spirit behind it.



Stefan de Konink