Toronto Asterisk Users' Group

The mailing list server is suffering from an extended outage. It should be back up in a day or two. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I received an update on the OpenMoko phones from Koolu.com, it looks like they will be getting some tri-band 850/1800/1900 mhz phones shortly. Sign up to this blog entry if you'd be interested in pre-ordering (you must be logged in to sign up).

Arrival: ~ May 21st
Cost: $400 CDN
Networks Supported: GSM, no CDMA -- so Rogers/Fido network only
Warranty Info: Pending
Contract: None

I don't know why it's so hard to find this in the help documentation; to manually break a post, you put
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The activity of a loosely knit group is obviously hard to track. We have no sales, don't take attendance at meetings, and a number of our members who are actively using Asterisk don't post.

However, here is what we do know, as of January 22nd, 2008:

There are:

• 330 subscribed to the TAUG general discussion list
• 240 subscribed to the TAUG business list
• 190 registered users on the website

For mailing list activity, in postings-per-person:

• >= 2 per month: 34
• >= 1/mo and < 2/mo: 33
• >= 4/yr and < 1/mo: 50
  

Little by little, the TAUG site is coming together. Drupal is a fairly convoluted piece of software, which by itself doesn't do a whole lot, so you have to wade through 1,000's of modules to add the functionality you'd think would be part of the core.

But that was my fault, I mistook it for a complete solution. It is more like Linux, Apache, and MySQL. It's the base from which you build your portal, not the portal itself.