Atlanta Asterisk Users Group

Ming Yong, the CEO of the Voiceroute Druid organization is glad to announce that DruidCON will be held on October 1st and 2nd, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a good follow-up to Astricon. DruidCON is the premier meeting for Druid community users and developers with interest in Unified Communications. DruidCON Atlanta 2008 attendees will include open source users of projects like Asterisk, OpenSER, professional Druid users and developers. Browse here for more information.

DruidCON topics will include: Druid as a UC 2.0 platform for web, mobile and desktop applications with a communications focus; previews of Druid UCS 5.0; breakthrough new release with complete LDAP backend for hot standby implementation of Asterisk systems and Deployment options for Druid including hosted & contact center type applications. You can view this video example of UC 2.0 - Mozilla Ubiquity and Druid to see this project’s capabilities

The cost of conference tickets including the DruidCON party and lunch is $50.00 for Early bird purchases (until September 20th) and after that the standard ticket price is $100.00.

Interested attendees can purchase conference tickets here. You can try your luck at winning 2 free DruidCON passes at this site.

Here’s how to participate on Tuesday, August 26th at 7PM EDT.

The audio portion of the program will be available via a conference
bridge at 1-404-492-8060.

The shared desktop is available using a Java enabled browser at
“http://callin.xelatec.com/vnc” with a password of “aretta”.

Our agenda will be general announcements, news, a list of upcoming
presentations and John Mullinex will tell us what he’s learned from a
sample of the new Sangoma USB FXO device. Also we will describe the
popular methods to dial into the conference bridge directly via SIP or
IAX and not through the telephone network!

Connecting to the Atlanta Asterisk Users Group Conference Bridge via the
Internet

The following methods enable you to connect to the conference bridge
over the Internet without using a public telephone number or line.

The first method is to configure routes in your Asterisk server
dialplan. For example, the following entry in
/etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf and context [from-internal-custom]
(or the equivalent file and context for your Asterisk system) routes
calls dialed to extension 6345 to the AtlAUG Conference Bridge via a SIP
connection over the Internet.

exten => 6345,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=YourName<6785551234>)
exten => 6345,n,Dial(SIP/2284@pbx.aretta.net)

And this next entry in the same file routes calls to extension 6446 to
the Conference Bridge but via an IAX2 trunk.

exten => 6346,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=YourName<6785551234>)
exten => 6346,n,Dial(IAX2/guest@pbx.aretta.net/2284)

You can also use the free Zoiper (http://www.zoiper.com) softphone
client on your computer to connect directly to the Conference Bridge
without going through an Asterisk server.

Of course you must first have Zoiper installed and then add a new Zoiper
IAX account with Account name ‘AtlaugConf’, Server Hostname
‘pbx.aretta.net’, Username ‘guest’, and no password or other
information. Select Show Advanced Options for that account and uncheck
“Register on startup’. Apply the new account and click OK. Then from the
main user interface, select the new account, go off hook and dial
‘2284′. That should connect you to the conference.

Finally, for those really brave souls, you can also connect using the
ITAD number of ‘2284*455′. ITAD details are available at
“http://www.freenum.org/cookbook/”.

IRC Chat: #aaug on freenode.net

Featuring “Everything You Need to Know About Asterisk DUNDI” by John Mullinix.

We will see how DUNDI works, how to configure a system and do a demonstration.

This is a teleconference meeting so if gas is too expensive, traffic is too bad or you’re out of town on business or vacation, you can still participate.

We will have a conference call number and a shared Web PowerPoint and Desktop. Details to follow.

Here is a copy of the presentation on the Pika Appliance Evaluation from that meeting.

We talked about creating a product sample pool and possibly having something in writing to consider at the next meeting.

Thanks to Mark and Bill for hosting the meeting.

Next month John Mullinix will tell us about DUNDI and describe how we can use it.

For this month’s meeting we are going to be the guests of the local Voiceroute Druid Meetup group. This is their inaugural meeting and it’s sponsered by Voiceroute and hosted by its CEO. They have graciously offered to provide a location and food for the event. So that they can plan ahead, they’ve asked that our members who plan to attend sign up at http://druidatlanta.eventbrite.com.

The meeting will be on May 27th and run from 6 to 9 pm. We’ll conduct our usual Atlanta Asterisk Users Group business in there somewhere. The location is the Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta NE/Sugarloaf, 2040 Sugarloaf Circle, Duluth GA 30097

The next AAUG meeting will be held Tuesday March 25th 7pm. at Georgia Tech in preparation for next month’s Asterisk Install Fest and Conference. We will meet in room 114 of the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) building. This building isat 13 Feerst Drive, on the South side of Feerst Drive, 4 blocks West of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building where we will hold the Install Fest. There is a parking lot on Feerst drive about 2 blocks East of the
MARC building. Here’s a link to an interactive map to the location
“http://www.marc.gatech.edu/travel/”

More information email: asterisk AT atlaug.com or call: 404-424-8266

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher W. Klaus Advanced Computing Buildin
266 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Open to the Public. You do not have to be a member of AtlAUG.

This year we’ll have more vendor participation (they’re buying us lunch!) and more detailed and advanced presentations with valuable content for IP communications professionals and enthusiasts.

The program consists of two tracks in two lecture halls. One track focuses on the basic installation and configuration of Asterisk. That’s where volunteers install Asterisk on attendee supplied computers. That process will be shown and explained using the lecture hall projection screen. The second track covers advanced topics for users and developers. Demonstrations and vendor presentations are a part of both tracks.

Please register now at http://www.atlaug.com so we can have the materials and meals available to make this a great Asterisk experience!

As a part of her presentation, Cheryl Farmer of Pika Technologies will bring some goodies to pass out at our February 26th meeting at Verso Technologies (map and directions to the right). If you’re going to attend (and you really should!) please let us know via the mailing list.