asterisk users - May 2007 - Re: asterisk setup for church / conference call

Quoting Tim Litwiller
> to connect to the speaker system I either need to trigger a ring on a
> analog line to the phone interface on our speaker system, it picks up
> on
> the first ring, or we can manully push a button that picks up the
> line.
> If we do the second we would have to have something in asterisk
> connect
> it to the conference when it picks up.
We just put a softphone on the PC that runs Easy Worship and plugged the
soundcard output into a mixer channel and the input to an Aux out.

Recording is fairly painless, just use mix monitor appl as part of the
dial plan for the secret extension that launches the conference from
the PC.

This is assuming you have a manned sound reinforcement system. If your
services are more low-key then the pastor will have to do it himself
before the service starts.

FYI: Churches are the _perfect_ example of a distributed business
environment where Asterisk shines. What other company do you know of
that has such a number of workers who don't have an office in the
building?

Our church is currently moving - possession June 30 - and we will have
deskphones for offices, deskphones at home for key ministry leaders,
softphones for minor ministry leaders and/or phantom VM's with email
attachments.

Don't for get aliases to job functions! People in ministry and volunteer
can come/go. Make sure your IVR has name and functions. Somebody will
call looking for "Children's Ministry", or for the
"Pastor" without
knowing who that person would be.

dbc.