[Discuss] SIP (voip) providers in Canada.

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-07-30 19:52-0700 Jeremy Kiffiak wrote:

> 2) Set up an Asterisk server.  Again this may be way over kill for you but 
> the entire subject of telephony is very interesting (to me anyways).  If you 
> want to have some more thoughts/suggestions on setting up your own PBX with 
> Asterisk fire off another email.  I will help where I can and I am sure there 
> are others on list who would contribute as well.  Come on and join in the 
> fun.  :-)

This approach appeals to me.  I enjoy learning specialized areas of Linux
(such as the X-terminal we ran here for three years that worked like a charm
and saved us $3000 [the cost of a hardware upgrade at that time]).  Also, I
am a strong believer in exercising/learning free software.  A large pool of
community expertise in such software is the only way we are going to keep
our computer freedom.  Finally, I have no interest in buying yet more
hardware with locked down proprietary solutions where there is a reasonable
free alternative like asterisk that I can just run on my own computer.

For now, though, I am just interested in the overview of asterisk (as I
alluded to in my first e-mail).  The reason is I am distracted by something
else at this time (a research project that has suddenly gotten most
interesting) so realistically it will be winter before I can get down to
learning asterisk in any detail.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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