asterisk users - Oct 2005 - Fredericksburg ZPUG Meeting will have an Asterisk Flavor this Month

I've been asked to forward this announcement to the list. It's a little 
"short notice" as the meeting is this Wednesday night. I'm one of
the
presenters as well :-)

From: Gary Poster <gary@zope.com>
Date: October 10, 2005 11:51:10 AM EDT
To: zope-announce@zope.org, python-announce-list@python.org, 
fredericksburg-zpug@zope.org
Subject: Fifth Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG Meeting

Please join us October 12, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the fifth
meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group
("ZPUG"). Learn about Python configuration of Asterisk, an
open source VOIP! Free food!

Rob Page, Zope Corporation CEO and President, will present a
technical session on Asterisk [1] installation,
configuration and operation. A brief discussion of
connections to the public telephone network and internet
telephony providers will be presented.

Hadar Pedhazur, Zope Corporation Chairman of the Board, will
present a technical session on call handling and processing
using Python extensions to Asterisk.

We will also serve delicious fruit, cheese, and soft drinks.

We've had a nice group for all the meetings. Please come and
bring friends!

We also are now members of the O'Reilly and Apress user
group programs, which gives us nice book discounts (prices
better than Amazon's, for instance) and the possibility of
free review copies.  Ask me about details at the meeting if
you are interested.

General ZPUG information
When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00.

Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street;
Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is
http://tinyurl.com/ duoab).

Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince
Edward Street.

Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the
constraints of having to do with Python.

Contact: Gary Poster (gary@zope.com)

[1] From www.asterisk.org: Asterisk is a complete PBX in
software.  It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all
of the features you would expect from a PBX and
more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can
interoperate with almost all standards- based telephony
equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.

Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call
Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response and Call
Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID
services, ADSI, SIP and H. 323 (as both client and
gateway). Check the Features section for a more complete
list.

Asterisk needs no additional hardware for Voice over IP. For
interconnection with digital and analog telephony equipment,
Asterisk supports a number of hardware devices, most notably
all of the hardware manufactured by Asterisk's sponsors,
Digium徆. Digium has single and quad span T1 and E1
interfaces for interconnection to PRI lines and channel
banks as well as a single port FXO card and a one to
four-port modular FXS and FXO card.