Twin Cities Asterisk Users

TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group. Our next Meeting will be Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8th 2012 at 6:30pm

Mon, 07 May 2012 13:44:00 GMT

TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group. Our next Meeting will be Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8th 2012 at 6:30pm.

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

This months meeting will be more of a social gathering. Bring your latest project, stories and questions.

Please bring your install tricks to share and tell us what you've found that works best.

Our meeting place hasn�t changed. It�s still at "TCMaker at the Hack Factory"

http://www.tcmaker.org/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street.

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting April 2012

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:24:00 GMT

TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group. Our next Meeting will be April 10th 2012 at 6:30pm.

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

This months meeting will be about "It's a bad bad bad world out there"

We will have a discussion on proper security for your VoIP systems as well as an open discussion on whats new in Asterisk / VoIP / Hardware etc.

Please bring your install tricks to share and tell us what you've found that works best.

Our meeting place hasn�t changed. It�s still at "TCMaker at the Hack Factory"

http://www.tcmaker.org/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street.

Jason

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Request for Donations - RESENT for a list member...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:45:00 GMT

RESENT for a list member....

Jay & Eric,

Greetings! I hope that you are both doing well. It has been AGES since I�ve seen you.

I�m putting together a small Asterisk system for a new, local non-profit organization. They have 4 POTS lines from Qwest (oh, I guess now CentruyLink�). Anyway, I need 4 analog FXO ports to interface to them. I�m wondering if anyone has an old analog interface with 4 FXO ports that they would be willing to donate? Alternatively, I�ve got an old Digium TDM400P with 1 X100M module, so I could also use 3 of the old Digium X100M modules to add to my card.

If anyone has something to donate, please contact me at operations@lcna.org or call my cell phone at 612-865-7373.

Thanks!

- Brett E. Bowman, Operations Manager
Lutherans Concerned/North America
operations@lcna.org

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting June 2011

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:13:00 GMT

TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group. Our next Meeting will be June 14th 2011. We are having meetings every other month.

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

Here�s what we�d like to do for meetings going forward: Go through the New Asterisk book, chapter by chapter and really cover Asterisk well.

The new Asterisk book is titled: Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition) and covers mainly Asterisk v1.8.

The book is back online at O�Reilly�s Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS) site! It looks like they've completed the book and now have it available for sale as well.

http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596517342/

We didn't do the best job of covering Chapter 4 as the book wasn't available last meeting so... We'll go over Chapter 4 again this meeting.

We'll try to have Brent go over Chapter 4. "Config Files". There's a nice little gem in this chapter on where to get some different Music on Hold.

Please bring your install tricks to share and tell us what you've found that works best.

Our meeting place hasn�t changed. It�s still at "TCMaker at the Hack Factory"

http://www.tcmaker.org/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street.

p.s. There are more interesting books available at: http://ofps.oreilly.com/

Jay Taylor

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Anouncement

Mon, 09 May 2011 21:22:00 GMT

TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group. Our next Meeting will be in June 2011. We are having meetings every other month.

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

The meeting will be June 14th at 6:30 pm. I'll send out another email reminder next month before the meeting.

Here�s what we�d like to do for some meetings going forward: Go through the New Asterisk book, chapter by chapter and really cover Asterisk well.

The new Asterisk book is titled: Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition) and covers mainly Asterisk v1.8.

The book is back online at O�Reilly�s Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS) site! It looks like they've completed the book and now have it available for sale as well.

http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596517342/

We didn't do the best job of covering Chapter 4 as the book wasn't available last month so... We'll go over Chapter 4 again in June.

For June, we'll try to have Brent go over Chapter 4. "Config Files". There's a nice little gem in this chapter on where to get some different Music on Hold.

Please bring your install tricks to share and tell us what you've found that works best.

Our meeting place hasn�t changed. It�s still at "TCMaker at the Hack Factory"

http://www.tcmaker.org/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street.

The meeting will be June 14th at 6:30 pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

p.s. There are more interesting books available at: http://ofps.oreilly.com/

Jay Taylor

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting April 2011

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:52:00 GMT

TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting April 2011

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

It�s time for another TCAUG meeting! The meeting will be April 12th at 6:30 pm.

Here�s what we�d like to do for some meetings going forward: Go through the New Asterisk book, chapter by chapter and really cover Asterisk well.

The new Asterisk book is titled: Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition) and covers mainly Asterisk v1.8.

The book can no longer be found online at O�Reilly�s Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS) site. It looks like they've completed the book and now have it available for sale.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517342/

The last time we got together we went over Chapter 3. "Installing Asterisk"

We're in a bind right now as the book isn't available for free anymore, at least not until they publish the Creative Commons version.

This month we'll try to have Brent go over Chapter 4. "Config Files"

We'll probably go over some Polycom configuration issues as well.

Please bring your install tricks to share and tell us what you've found that works best.

Our meeting place hasn�t changed. It�s still at "TCMaker at the Hack Factory"

http://www.tcmaker.org/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street.

The meeting will be April 12th at 6:30 pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

p.s. There are more interesting books available at: http://ofps.oreilly.com/

Jay Taylor

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Feb 2011

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:08:00 GMT

TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Feb 2011

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

I hope everyone had a great Holiday Season and New Year. It�s time for another TCAUG meeting!

Here�s what we�d like to do for some meetings going forward: Go through the New Asterisk book, chapter by chapter and really cover Asterisk well.

The new Asterisk book is titled: Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition) and covers mainly Asterisk v1.8.

The book can be found online at O�Reilly�s Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS) site.

http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596517342/

We�ve got quite a bit of material to cover there and we can provide feedback to the authors as well. Looking at the first few chapters, I'd like to start with Chapter 3. "Installing Asterisk"

Please bring your install tricks to share and tell us what you've found that works best.

Our meeting place hasn�t changed. It�s still at "TCMaker at the Hack Factory"

http://www.tcmaker.org/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street.

The meeting will be February 8th at 6:30 pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

p.s. There are more interesting books available at: http://ofps.oreilly.com/

Jay Taylor

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Nov 2010

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:54:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

Where the heck did October go? I swear it was just yesterday that I sent out the October meeting (or lack there of) notice.

First off: There will be NO November meeting.

Here's our issue in a nut shell:

TCMaker has been most gracious in allowing us to meet at their location for the past few months and I thank them for their support. I hope that this will continue.

We'd like to improve the quality of the presentations at the meetings. Nobody want's to do a presentation.

I (and others) don't want to see the group die off.

So, What should we do?

A great idea from Eric is to change the meetings from monthly to a quarterly meeting. This would reduce the number of meetings we have to find presenters for and not close down entirely. I like the thought of taking a breather and not have the burden of finding a presentation for each month.

This would also let us really think about the direction we want to take going forward.

We now need to find out when we should have our quarterly meetings. I'm inclined to "slit the difference" and go for the middle month. Yes, I know that November would be the middle month for this quarter but we don't have any presentations.

How about we take the holidays off and shoot for the Feb 8th, 2011 meeting? I'll try to get something worthwhile for people to show up at a TCAUG meeting.

If you can give a presentation or know of someone who could give a VOIP related presentation, please let me know.

I'd like to hear any ideas from people, so please send me a note: tcaug at hitechmn dot com (you know how to fix that up.)

Thanks and have a some Happy Holidays!

Jay

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Oct 2010

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:31:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

Just a quick note to let you know the October meeting is canceled.

We'll be sending out an email t=in a few weeks about the November meeting.

Thanks, Jay

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Sept 2010

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:35:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

The agenda for our Aug meeting is: Jay, Jason and others will (continue to) help setup an asterisk system for our host. TCMaker has been very generous in providing a meeting space for us and we will try to get an asterisk system up and running for them. After we get that going we will try to get some phones connected so they can actually use the system. We've completed part of this project but we need to finish it. There are a few cable runs that have been pulled but there is one left to pull. It might be pulled by the meeting time, but may not be.

*** HUGE NOTE ***

This will be another Tuesday night MEETING! Yes, you read that right, Tuesday. We'll start the meeting at about 6:30pm.

This months meeting will be at the Twin Cities Maker location again.

You can see our calendar entry on Sept 14th. http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/calendar/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street. We'll have our NEW start time of 6:30pm.

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Aug 2010 - Corrected Date

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:04:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

The agenda for our Aug meeting is: Jay, Jason and others will help setup an asterisk system for our host. TCMaker has been very generous in providing a meeting space for us and we will try to get an asterisk system up and running for them. After we get that going we will try to get some phones connected so they can actually use the system. We've completed part of this project but we need to finish it. There are a few cable runs that have been pulled but there is one left to pull. It might be pulled by the meeting time, but may not be.

*** HUGE NOTE ***

This will be another Tuesday MEETING! Yes, you read that right, Tuesday. We'll start the meeting at about 6:30pm.

This months meeting will be at the Twin Cities Maker location again.

You can see our calendar entry on Aug 10th. http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/calendar/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street. We'll have our NEW start time of 6:30pm.

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Usergroup Meeting - Second Ever BBQ July 13th 6:30pm

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:32:00 GMT

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As I mentioned at previous meetings, if there was enough interest I'd be happy to host a BBQ on July 13th at my house. I thought that we'd keep the time the same (6:30pm) and let everyone know that there would be a General discussion over brats / hamburgers and beverage at Jay Taylor's house. Although not required if so inclined please bring a dish / beverage to share. I'll get the fire started about 6:15pm and begin cooking at 6:30. There is room inside if it rains. Thanks!

Please call 612-XXX-XXXX and follow the instructions, I'm trying to get a head count. No, you aren't calling my Asterisk box! I've made some changes to my network recently and the Asterisk box appears to be a causality. I really DO have one though. I live in Mendota Heights. It's just South of St. Paul on 35E.

Jay

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting June 2010

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:35:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VOIP Technology,

The agenda for our June meeting is: Jay, Jason and others will help setup an asterisk system for our host. TCMaker has been very generous in providing a meeting space for us and we will try to get an asterisk system up and running for them. After we get that going we will try to get some phones connected so they can actually use the system.

I know I mentioned another project for the June meeting but there have been some legal issues with that project. The web site for FreSpeech as been taken down by a C & D order. I'm not comfortable using/showing software that might be part of an ongoing law suit so we'll just have to post pone this one until things get worked out. It looks very promising and I hope things work out well for the author.

*** HUGE NOTE ***

This will be the FIRST Tuesday MEETING! Yes, you read that right, FIRST and Tuesday. We'll start the meeting at about 6:30pm.

This months meeting will be at the Twin Cities Maker location again.

You can see our calendar entry on June 8th. http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/calendar/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street. We'll have our NEW start time of 6:30pm.

Hope to see you there!

Jay

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting May 2010

Thu, 06 May 2010 01:42:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VoIP Technology,

The agenda for our Maymeeting is: Jay, Jason and Eric went to the Atlanta Asterisk User Conference back in April. Jay and Jason (If he shows up) will go over some of the highlights of the conference.

Here were some of the topics:

Ward Mundy, Nerd Vittles - Beyond the Orgasmatron
Joe Roper, Star2Billing - Virtualized Multi-Tenant Asterisk Systems with A2Billing
Mike Storella, Snom - Subscriber Sets for Asterisk Systems
Marc Fribush, Aretta Communications - Getting to 99.999 with NetPBX PRO Hosted Asterisk
Robert Messer, ABPTech - Selling Open Source Telecomm
Konrad Hammel, Sangoma - Interface Selection and Configuration
Mark Carson, Aastra - Unique VoIP Subscriber Sets and Systems
DJ Belieny - Asterisk High Availability / Fail Over Solutions
VoIP Service Provider Forum
Kevin Lynn, George Washington University, A Walk on the Dark Side - How VoIP Attacks Happen
Jared Smith, Digium, A Special Presentation

The June meeting will be about LumenVox and making it work with http://www.frespeech.org/

*** HUGE NOTE ***

This will be the LAST Saturday MEETING! Yes, you read that right, LAST. We'll be switching to a week night. If you have ANY interest in determining what night of the week it will be, then YOU need to SHOW UP at the May meeting.

This months meeting will be at the Twin Cities Maker location again. (It's not currently on the calendar, but I'm sure that will be fixed.)

You can see our calendar entry on May 8th. http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/calendar/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street. We'll have our usual start time of 11:30am.

Hope to see you there!

Jay

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting April 2010

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:12:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VoIP Technology,

The agenda for our April meeting is: VOIP issues at a medium/large business with call queuing/routing, an IVR that includes use of a third party for processing.

This months meeting will be at the Twin Cities Maker location again.

You can see our calendar entry on April 10th. http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/calendar/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street. We'll have our usual start time of 11:30am.

Hope to see you there!

Jay

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Mar 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:30:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VoIP Technology,

The agenda for our March meeting is: VOIP Basics at the Twin Cities Maker location. I'll bring a simple computer with Asterisk running with a few extensions. I'll probably cover a little of the history of Asterisk and have a few other things for "show and tell". I'll bring a few copies of the latest CD for PBX in a Flash for people that want to try it on their own equipment.

You can see our calendar entry on March 13th. http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/calendar/

The address of the Hack Factory is:

3119 E 26th St. Minneapolis, MN 55406

There's parking mainly on the street. We'll have our usual start time of 11:30am.

Hope to see you there!

Jay

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Spreading the news! Security Advisory from Olle and Digium

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:14:00 GMT

Friends,

Last week, Hans Petter Selansky alerted us of a potential security issue in all releases of Asterisk. In fact, it doesn't involve the code, but the most common way to construct dialplans. If you have something like this in your Asterisk, you need to update your dialplans:

[incoming-from-voip]
exten => _X., 1, dial(SIP/${EXTEN})

Many VoIP protocols support a large character set, that may cause harm in your dialplan
====================================================================

I've written an article about this on my blog, where my summary says:

"Because of a conflict between allowed characters in the called number or name in many VoIP protocols and the way Asterisk handles channel variables, there is a security risk hidden in many dialplans based on examples provided over the years by the Asterisk developers, trainers and community. The primary risk is that by using an ampersand in the dialstring, a user can access protected resources or misuse the pbx services. However, this character is not the only problem, as other characters may cause unexpected or problematic behaviour."

There will be an Asterisk Security Advisory document coming out from Digium soon, as well as updated documentation and examples within the Asterisk source code tree. I strongly advise everyone to follow these and stay updated. (I have no access to the ASA system myself and can't generate an official security alert).

For more information about this issue and some code examples of what I personally currently think are good ways to prevent misuse of your services, please read my blog article at

http://www.voip-forum.com/?p=241&preview=true

Please help us to distribute this message!
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We need help from all involved in the Asterisk eco-system. This is not something that the development team can solve by itself. We can add documents, READMEs and fix our own examples. But that won�t fix it. We need everyone involved to pump this information out in all the veins that runs through the Asterisk eco-system. In all languages needed, we shall say: "Audit your dialplans, fix this issue. And do it now."

Everyone that runs a web site with dialplan examples - audit your examples, fix them. Everyone that has published books on Asterisk - publish errata on your web site. Please help us - and do it now.

If you add web links, please add links both to http://www.asterisk.org where the official documents will soon be published, as well as to my blog (if you like, of course). But don't just refer to my blog entry alone.

I have updated my own servers and will now start auditing my customers' servers. After that I will have to update all my training materials so I don't repeat the bad examples. There's no magic bullet, no wonderful code patch, that can fix this, just hard work with all dialplans that accept calls over VoIP channels.

Let us all work together to fix this!

With Asterisk greetings!

/Olle

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Feb 2010

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:17:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VoIP Technology,

The agenda for our next meeting is: -Plan out the year- Yeah, I know, we did this last month. True. But now we need PRESENTERS!

We are having trouble getting access to a consistent meeting location so we are having the meeting at the Fuddruckers on France Ave, just North of 494. I'd like everyone to bring their topic of choice and we'll start to line up the presentations.

Last time we talked a little about the meeting format and we thought that something like this would work:

Social time 15- 20 min
Announcements 15 min
Presentation - Topic 45 min
Year long topic 10-15 min SIP and stuff. It was my idea so I'll take this one.

We also talked quite a bit about picking a different date/time for the meeting. The hope is that by having the meeting at a different time, we might attract people who don't want to / can't give up their weekend to attend a meeting. Please think of days/times that are available to you so we can pick a different day/time.

Here are some of the topics mentioned at the Jan meeting:

Legacy Hardware - If you know legacy phone hardware, please consider giving some talks on how it all works.
Virtualizing Asterisk and other telephony software. Know about virtualization or have experience? Tell us about it.
Hard phones and their codecs. There are some codecs that are getting more popular and how do they all work.
SCCP - Rumor has it that there are several people in the Twincities that know quite a bit about this topic.
Asterisk alternatives - What is FreeSwitch and how does it compare to Asterisk. Let's do a side by side comparison.
OpenSER / OpenSIPS / Kamailio - What can this software do and what makes it tic. Tell us what you know.
DUNDi / IAX - Show us the ins and outs of DUNDi and/or IAX.
Asterisk Classes - Have you taken any? What are they like? What did you learn? We want to know.
Backing up Asterisk - What works for you and what would you do differently? Teach us more.

There, that's a good start. Look over the list and pick something that you know about or that interests you. We'd love to have you give a presentation to the group on a topic. If you'd like to select a topic that isn't listed, great, we'd still like to hear it.

Projects - There is a group that could use our talents. They are the Twin Cities Makers Group http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/
They could probably use a nice phone system like asterisk to manage their phones and get their message out. How about we help them out with getting a system in place and do something to help this group. Who knows, maybe they would even let us land there a few times for a meeting. Have any hardware that you would consider donating to them? I think this would be a good group project for us. Let's find out more.

The meeting will begin at 11:30am on Saturday Feb 13th, 2010. If you can't make the meeting then please email us a list of what you'd like to present for the next year.

Hope you can make it!

Jay Taylor

p.s Sorry for the really late email on this. I am trying to get them out sooner, really I am. Since I'm doing the year long topic of SIP, I've noticed quite a few books out there on SIP. Anyone have one that they really liked? I'm looking for recommendations.

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting Jan 2010

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VoIP Technology,

The agenda for our next meeting is: -Plan out the year-

We have a conflict with the meeting location so we are having a planning meeting at the Fuddruckers on France Ave, just North of 494. I'd like everyone to bring their requests for topics, subjects, hardware, etc. We'd like to get some topics lined up for the year along with speakers / presenters.

I'm also looking for a long term topic that we can cover at each meeting. I'd like to learn a whole lot more about SIP and its gory details. How about an in-dept year of SIP?

Bring your questions, ideas and projects and we will help you work through them.

The meeting will begin at 11:30am on Saturday Jan 9th, 2010. If you can't make the meeting then please email us a list of what you'd like to see for the next year.

Hope you can make it!

Jay Taylor

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TCAUG - Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting (NEW LOCATION)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:21:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VoIP Technology,

The agenda for our next meeting is:

Astricon Happenings. If you didn't make it to Astricon this year, sow up and get a re-cap of the events.

Bring your questions, ideas and projects and we will help you work through them.

Fuddruckers ($1.50 Bottles of beer) is close by or we can order pizza. The meeting will begin at 11:30am on Saturday Nov14th, 2009.

The address is 4445 West 77th Street, Edina Minnesota, 55435. We will meet in the shared conference room. Get there early to get the best chairs!

There is a large parking lot on the West side of the building. Please enter through the doors on the Southwest corner of the building, if you have trouble getting in, call 952-649-9925.

Jay will bring what's left of the beverages.

Hope you can make it!

Jay Taylor

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TCAUG- Twin Cities Asterisk Users Group Meeting - The October Meeting is Canceled

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:07:00 GMT

Hello Asterisk Users and those with an Interest in VoIP Technology,

Sorry for the late notice on this Saturday's meeting but it will be canceled. I apologize for this.

We are in need of a few things:

1. A place to land. We sort of have access to the conference room in Edina but it is kind of small.
If anyone has some ideas or suggestions, please let me know.

2. No topic is too small or insignificant. We are looking for presenters. What have you done with
Asterisk recently? Share it with the group, I'm sure that there are people who would like to hear about it.

3. At the next meeting - November - we'll get to hear about Astricon from hoenix AZ. Jason and Eric will both
be attending the conference and will talk about the conference, what they learned and possibly how to
install/use the three free digium items. Attendees get skype for Asterisk, Fax for Asterisk and a g729 codec.

Here's something I learned about recently: http://www.vestec.ca/ has some inexpensive voice recognition software
that works with Asterisk. In fact they have partnered with digium and I think they use digium's licensing software.

It's $99/port and only $15/port/year maintenance. They have some comparisons with other voice recognition software
and are rated quite high. Anyone interested in trying this out and present to the group? (see item 2 above.)

See you all next month.

Jay

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