What: Next BLUG Meeting
Why: Mark Krenz will be demonstrating Asterisk
Where: Monroe County Public Library, meeting room 1A
When: Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 7:00pm
What is Asterisk? Asterisk is an open source phone system for Linux. It can run (with special hardware) connected to POTS (plain old telephone service; the outside world), or it can run as a pure VOIP system using IP phones and "softphones" (with your mic and headset, or similar). It can be connected to a single line or many lines and then run to extensions for everybody with voice mail, on-hold music, etc (if you like).
Asterisk is mature, *very* full-featured, relatively easy to program (as they say: easy to learn, a challenge to master), and suitable for anything from talking amongst friends, to an enterprise phone system for your company (I really mean that).
If you have any interest in telephony, VOIP, or real-time communication via the internet, I strongly suggest you come along and check out Mark's talk.
-- Dave Cooley dcooley@kiva.net
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