Present:
- Doug Picket
- Henry Coleman
- Johannes Vanderknyff
- Leif Madsen
- Simon Ditner
Call for charitable organizations that could use donations:
- Small call centres
- 40 lines of dialplan and a few phones
- Find people with end-of-life hardware to donate
IT360:
- Liked being out in the middle
- Videos are nice
- 1 day event much better
- Too expensive for most of our membership though; mostly individuals, not supported by companies
TOSTC - Toronto Open Source Telephony Conference
- Needs to address TAUG member's needs very directly
- Target admission to be < $100
- Aim for 2nd - 3rd week of September
- Focus on cross topic technical talks
- Morning: Beginner, Midday: Intermediate, Afternoon: Advanced
- Partner with some technology parterns to keep cost down
- Record & Release all talks online
Talk Topics:
- Record and post all talks
- Leif on Asterisk 1.6
- T1, E1, etc. from the ground up; how to get digital circuits in
- How to do cross connects with digital circuits
- Testing with Adhearsion
- Load testing
- Volume with sip-p
- Bring everyone together after scripts written for a load-test-fest
Workshops:
- Queues and Agent logins
- Load testing
- Volume with sip-p
- Bring everyone together after scripts written for a load-test-fest
Projects:
- Reverse engineer the BCM and implement in Asterisk
- BCM Rosetta Stone
Targets:
- IT Integrators
- Traditional Telephone installers
- Traditional Telco engineers
- Maybe Chris and Jim know whom to reach out to?
- CTRA (CRTA?)
- Distribtors
- Telco: Aastra, Sangoma, Mitel, Pika, Nortel, White RAdio, Williams Global
- IT: ASI, EMJ
- Media: TorStar, other local news papers
- How do we reach them?
- Where do they hang out?
- Mail the mailing list - what other organizations should we be contacting /
- parterning with?
- Write articles for these organizations to send out to their membership
Articles:
- Solutions Made in Onatrio
- Articles for specific vendors to distribute to their client lists
- Show how technology is booming in Ontario, the amazing stuff that's going on in this group
- Small business angle
- As a large business falls, many small businesses are on the rise
- Saving money by moving to Open Source
Showcases:
- Revenue Canada - Leif
- Alteca Outsourcing - Johanas (Did Clod work there?)
Actions:
- (A) Charity callout
- (A) Revenue Canada Paper
- (A) Demo IVR Deployment - Leif
- (A) Design a message; what can we give to companies for them to put in their newsletters?
- (A) Find site for hostings ~ 1h30m videos
- (A) Talk to bill @ sheradon - Leif