Toronto Asterisk Users' Group

Elastix is an asterisk-based linux appliance that integrates the best tools available into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules.

Jose will discuss how Elastix differs from other Asterisk-based distributions, and the road map for the Elastix project.

Where:

Committee Room 3 North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) 5100 Yonge St., North York, ON (Google map link) The entrance into the conference area is well back from the road, just in front of the fountains. View Larger Map Entrance in front of fountain Handicap Parking and side entrance Driving: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located on the West side of Yonge Street, just North of Yonge and Sheppard. There is plenty of (P)arking behind the building at 180 Beecroft Road, or underneath Empress Walk (entrance is off of Yonge and Emwood Ave.) TTC: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located at the North York Centre subway stop, one stop North of Sheppard Station.

Jose will be running a 'getting started' workshop on Elastix.

Elastix is an asterisk-based linux appliance that integrates the best tools available into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules.

What you should bring:

• A laptop capable of running vmware player
• Associated cables for power and networking

Where:

Committee Room 3 North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) 5100 Yonge St., North York, ON (Google map link) The entrance into the conference area is well back from the road, just in front of the fountains. View Larger Map Entrance in front of fountain Handicap Parking and side entrance Driving: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located on the West side of Yonge Street, just North of Yonge and Sheppard. There is plenty of (P)arking behind the building at 180 Beecroft Road, or underneath Empress Walk (entrance is off of Yonge and Emwood Ave.) TTC: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located at the North York Centre subway stop, one stop North of Sheppard Station.

This Month, Jim Van Meggelen will be giving an introductory talk on the Y.A.T.E (Yet Another Telephony Engine) project. Jim will go over the architecture, the very different way that YATE deals with dialplan, and, if all goes well, demonstrate the very powerful conferencing engine.

Where:

Committee Room 3 North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) 5100 Yonge St., North York, ON (Google map link) The entrance into the conference area is well back from the road, just in front of the fountains. View Larger Map Entrance in front of fountain Handicap Parking and side entrance Driving: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located on the West side of Yonge Street, just North of Yonge and Sheppard. There is plenty of (P)arking behind the building at 180 Beecroft Road, or underneath Empress Walk (entrance is off of Yonge and Emwood Ave.) TTC: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located at the North York Centre subway stop, one stop North of Sheppard Station.

This month we welcome back one of the founders of TAUG, Shidan Gouran, to share with us his experiences working with Asterisk to create a small business appliance. Shidan will guide us through what he set out to do when co-founding Jazinga Inc. Why he chose to create an embedded Asterisk appliance and what challenges had to be overcome to be successful.

This month, Chris Chen will be giving a demonstration of many of the features
of FreeSWITCH which Mike Jerris talked about last month. He will take us
through his setup, which includes googletalk, conference, sip endpoints, sip
trunks, exchange 2007 um integration, asterisk server interconnections, flite
tts, and pocketsphinx ASR, among other things.

He will also be demonstrating some of the advanced SIP features, such as BLF,
SLA/BLA, SIP presence, simple messaging, intercom, ring groups, call
management, and the sorts of applications available, such as call spying,