PRESENT:

• Chris Alsop
• Dave Donovan
• Doug Pickett
• Henry Coleman
• Johannes Vanderknyff
• Simon Ditner

AGENDA:

The agenda will roughly be:

• What's working / what's not
• Scaling the "management" team beyond me
• Where would we like to take the group in 2009
  • spreading the word of open source telephony through outreach to
    other groups/organizations/colleges/universities

  • it360 participation
  • linuxfest participation
  • seneca foss participation
  • talks/workshops
  • possibility of a lab (i.e. something like http://hacklab.to)
  • taug.ca tools for improving participation

SIMON'S MEETING NOTES

Working well:

• Meetings
  • Access to expertise; sharing ideas
  • Balance of business/technology interests
• Mailing lists
  • Add list of moderators to website [Dave D. nominated]

Not working:

• Website
• Articles; not many being written
• Forums; messages go unanswered

Who are the new users:

• it managers
• hobbiests
• entrepreneurs

Case studies

• Follow up w/ Aastra about wifi numbers after giving their talk
• Testimonial to get more vendors on board giving talks

Encourage smaller presentations:

• Call forwarding / find me
• follow me

• Voicemail for your cellphone [Chris Allsop]
• Related technology (i.e. Router/CARP talk) [Doug]

Talk Topics:

• pfsense + freeswitch [Dave Donovan]
• linux tips & tricks
• asterisk tips & tricks
• webmin
• double WAN / network redundancy
• how predictive diallers work
• embeded asterisk on flash disks; CF/IDE adapters can be found cheap on dealextreme.com
• passive cooling
• VoIP clients for Android/iPhone

Workshop Topics:

• Deliverables needed by the end
• FreeSWITCH
• Unified Messaging
• SIP/Cell gateways
• Soekris embedded systems
• Disaster recovery deployments

Outreach:

• Vendor showcase; Focus on services our own members offer
• Garage Sale
• Buildfest for charities / churches
• Fleamarket at HAM radio event [Chris]
• Colleges/Universities
  • They often have computer science clubs, and students can request
    funding to implement interesting projects

  • George Brown, Humber, Seneca, Sheradon
  • U of T, York, Ryerson
• Professional organizations in related industries
• Charities / Churches

IT360:

• Doug & Chris volunteered to help Simon get participation organized
• More of a business slant for the IT admins
• What is VoIP
• Intro to Asterisk
• Deploying cheap phone systems
• Start your own business w/ asterisk
• Stop phone spammers
• build home phone system for under $500
• High^er availability asterisk
• cell/asterisk integration
• panel talk; trenches/future

HackLab:

• not really pratical for us; most ppl have equipment
• partner w/ another computer club
• partner w/ a university/college or club

Meeting Improvements:

• MC
• Give a proper introduction for the speaker
• Point out who the 'Go-to-person' is for the evening to help new members get introduced to who does what
• Set up recording for the evening's talk w/ phone+bluetooth

TAUG Phone System:

• Announce next event
• Get connected to an expert, (we are not affiliated w/ whomever replies to your msg) -- leave a voicemail that will be emailed out to a contractor's list
• General inquiries number that rings out to a queue; falls back to voicemail->email
• List of demonstration systems that you can be bridged with; or list callback numbers to systems running asterisk to see what it can do

TAUG Loaner Pool:

• Agreed that the Cheque/Prepaid return shipping was good to move forward with
• Nabeel to set up shipping account for returns

Scaling up TAUG:

Defined some new roles to help grow the group:

• Roles to fill:
  • Corporate liaison; Get vendors involved
  • Membership coordinator; Run outreach programs
  • Meeting Postproduction; podcasts/slides
  • Ambassador / Go-to-person (changes meeting to meeting)
• Roles filled:
  • [Simon D.] Event coordination
  • [Simon D.] Communications Operations (lists/website/phone systems)
  • [Dave D.] List/Forum moderation
  • [Nabeel] Loaner pool coordinator