[Sussex] Future presentation offer - Asterisk

[Mark Harrison (Groups)]

Guys,

I'd like to offer a future presentation on "setting up Asterisk" at a 
LUGMoot.

For those who aren't aware, Asterisk is an OpenSource middleware 
platform for voice applications that runs (normally) on Linux.

AMONG OTHER THINGS, you can receive calls on SIP (the leading voice over 
IP (VOIP) protocol ), and traditional phone lines (with a suitable, 
cheap, interface card.)

Likewise, among other things, you can forward those calls to voicemail 
(included), softphones (software that runs on your PC), hardphones 
(devices that look like analogue phones but actually are IP devices 
plugging into the network) or analogue phones (with a suitable, cheap, 
interface card)

For incoming calls, I use it in combination with sipgate (a free service 
that gives me a central London phone number and forwards that to a SIP 
address), so that when someone rings my London number, it firstly tries 
my softphone for 20 seconds, and if I'm not around diverts to voicemail.

I'm currently writing up my installation notes into something that could 
be a LUGMoot presentation, if there's interest.

Regards,

Mark