Bryan Johns January 31st, 2011
In our never-ending quest to improve the Asterisk project and to expand the capabilities of open source communications, Digium is proud to announce two new weekly developer conference calls: The Asterisk Developer Conference Call This weekly call will cover everything that’s new and exciting in the development and maintenance of the Asterisk project. All Asterisk [...]
Allison Smith January 31st, 2011
Commandment #15: “Write in a Conversational Tone” This blog entry wraps up my 15-part series – and I’m ending on a topic which excites me the most. As someone who voices telephone prompts on a daily basis, I’m pleased to report a trend in IVR “style” which makes systems more personable, more accessible – and [...]
Malcolm Davenport January 28th, 2011
Having just completed a successful 11-plus year worldwide campaign, the Asterisk Open Source Communications toolkit has returned victorious from its match in the desert against the forces of Proprietary Telecommunications. The outcome was never in doubt, as Asterisk overwhelmed Proprietary Telecommunications while the opening whistle still echoed in the ears of the adoring Asterisk faithful. [...]
Bryan Johns January 26th, 2011
This opinion piece covers the arguments for and against hosted and premises PBX deployments in different customer and usage scenarios. It also explores the merits of a third, “co-located” solution design as a legitimate alternative for certain requirements.
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Malcolm Davenport January 18th, 2011
An Open Source Telephony Devroom has been organized at FOSDEM 2011 in Brussels on Sunday, February 6th, 2011. The Devroom will feature a full day of presentations on development topics in the area of open source telephony. 30 minute presentations will be made from 09:00 until 17:00. We have been assigned to room AW1.124 and [...]