Toronto Asterisk User Group

Topic:

The voicemail application in Asterisk is one of the oldest of the dialplan applications. It is often critisized as one of the less-than-compelling parts of Asterisk, and, because it's functionality is locked up in a very complex, messy and poorly-documented bit of code (app_voicemail.c), no one has the nerve to touch it.

Jim Van Meggelen believes there is a way to fix app_voicemail, and the way to do it is to completely get rid of it. Rather than treat voicemail as a closed application, and try and design an app that handles every possible thing that anyone might want to use it for, it makes more sense to see voicemail as a complex (very complex, in fact) IVR application, and break it down into dialplan components that can be delivered through dialplan logic.

This is easy to say; not so easy to do. Replacing app_voicemail with dialplan code is going to require a lot of code, and there are several dialplan apps that will need to be created or modified in order to allow this to happen.

This session will introduce TAUGs first community development project: Voicemail TNG. Everyone is more than welcome, but this session will be geared towards people with a solid knowledge of asterisk architecture, so bring your thinking cap.

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.

Afterwards, we will progress to our regular pub (across the street) around 8:00 - 8:30pm: