asterisk users - Oct 2005 - You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an Asterisk book!

Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen, and Leif Madsen of the Asterisk
Documentation Project, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media are pleased
to announce the official release of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
on Friday, October 14, 2005 at AstriCon 2005 in Anaheim, CA.

In the true spirit of Open Source, the authors and O'Reilly Media have
published the book under the open, Creative Commons license, allowing
the book in its entirity to be freely distributed.

Asterisk: The Future of Telephony is now freely available, for
download in PDF form, from the Asterisk Documentation Project website
located at http://www.asteriskdocs.org. On the left hand side, click
on "Read the book online!" for a copy.

The authors would like to thank O'Reilly Media for having the vision
to understand how significant it is for the Asterisk community to have
a book freely available, thereby lowering the barrier of entry for
those new to Asterisk, and to give back to a project that has given us
all so much.

I would personally like to thank Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen,
Michael Loukides (our editor) and the entire O'Reilly Media staff.

The book is currently shipping, and should be available at all major
book stores in paperback, and also online from
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/ and other online outlets.

Thanks, and we hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it!

PS: If the Asterisk Documentation Project website becomes slow due to
the number of people accessing it at once, we appoligize and
appreciate your patience. For those of you who are able to obtain the
full copy, please consider helping us out by creating mirrors and
torrents and posting them to the list by replying to this thread.
Thanks!

--
Leif Madsen - http://www.leifmadsen.com
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk

On 15 Oct 2005, at 19:58, Leif Madsen wrote:
> Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen, and Leif Madsen of the Asterisk
> Documentation Project, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media are pleased
> to announce the official release of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
> on Friday, October 14, 2005 at AstriCon 2005 in Anaheim, CA.
>
> In the true spirit of Open Source, the authors and O'Reilly Media have
> published the book under the open, Creative Commons license, allowing
> the book in its entirity to be freely distributed.
>
> Asterisk: The Future of Telephony is now freely available, for
> download in PDF form, from the Asterisk Documentation Project website
> located at http://www.asteriskdocs.org. On the left hand side, click
> on "Read the book online!" for a copy.
>
> The authors would like to thank O'Reilly Media for having the vision
> to understand how significant it is for the Asterisk community to have
> a book freely available, thereby lowering the barrier of entry for
> those new to Asterisk, and to give back to a project that has given us
> all so much.
>
> I would personally like to thank Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen,
> Michael Loukides (our editor) and the entire O'Reilly Media staff.
>
> The book is currently shipping, and should be available at all major
> book stores in paperback, and also online from
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/ and other online outlets.
>
> Thanks, and we hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed  
> writing it!
>
> PS: If the Asterisk Documentation Project website becomes slow due to
> the number of people accessing it at once, we appoligize and
> appreciate your patience. For those of you who are able to obtain the
> full copy, please consider helping us out by creating mirrors and
> torrents and posting them to the list by replying to this thread.
> Thanks!

No, thank you! I've read the book and it is very good.
Just what asterisk needed.

I've mirrored it on our website at
http://www.westhawk.co.uk/resources/AsteriskTFOT.zip


Tim
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Hello Leif ,  The appendices A & B are missing from the zip file
 	available at the location mentioned below .  Is there some reason of
 	copyright that is not mentioned here ?  Tia ,  JimL

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Leif Madsen wrote:
> Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen, and Leif Madsen of the Asterisk
> Documentation Project, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media are pleased
> to announce the official release of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
> on Friday, October 14, 2005 at AstriCon 2005 in Anaheim, CA.
>
> In the true spirit of Open Source, the authors and O'Reilly Media have
> published the book under the open, Creative Commons license, allowing
> the book in its entirity to be freely distributed.
>
> Asterisk: The Future of Telephony is now freely available, for
> download in PDF form, from the Asterisk Documentation Project website
> located at http://www.asteriskdocs.org. On the left hand side, click
> on "Read the book online!" for a copy.
>
> The authors would like to thank O'Reilly Media for having the vision
> to understand how significant it is for the Asterisk community to have
> a book freely available, thereby lowering the barrier of entry for
> those new to Asterisk, and to give back to a project that has given us
> all so much.
>
> I would personally like to thank Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen,
> Michael Loukides (our editor) and the entire O'Reilly Media staff.
>
> The book is currently shipping, and should be available at all major
> book stores in paperback, and also online from
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/ and other online outlets.
>
> Thanks, and we hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it!
>
> PS: If the Asterisk Documentation Project website becomes slow due to
> the number of people accessing it at once, we appoligize and
> appreciate your patience. For those of you who are able to obtain the
> full copy, please consider helping us out by creating mirrors and
> torrents and posting them to the list by replying to this thread.
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Leif Madsen - http://www.leifmadsen.com
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk
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Leif Madsen a ?crit :
>Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen, and Leif Madsen of the Asterisk
>Documentation Project, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media are pleased
>to announce the official release of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
>on Friday, October 14, 2005 at AstriCon 2005 in Anaheim, CA.
>
>In the true spirit of Open Source, the authors and O'Reilly Media have
>published the book under the open, Creative Commons license, allowing
>the book in its entirity to be freely distributed.
>  
>
Kudos for this. Brilliant!

Appendix A seems to refer to VoIP channel
configurations.
Appendix B seems to refer to dialplan references.

kinda nice if it was included, not to mention a table
of contents.

But I'll take what gave me til I get to the Bookstore
and grab a hardcopy ($40-Barns&Nobile)

Thanks Jim, Jared and Leif!
>The appendices are in the book. :) 
>Apparently only missing in the pdf.
>> Is appendix A and B missing?

	
		
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On 10/15/05, Sean Wheller <sean@inwords.co.za>
wrote:
> On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:58, Leif Madsen wrote:
> > Asterisk: The Future of Telephony is now freely available, for
> > download in PDF form, from the Asterisk Documentation Project website
> > located at http://www.asteriskdocs.org.
>
> Congratulations on the release of this book. It certainly is a great body
of
> work.
>
> I would like to ask whether the authors and O'Reilly Media would ever
release
> under a less restrictive license perhaps
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ? Of course I would like
cc-by-sa
> 2.5, but that may be pushing it :-)
>
> If the above is a possability, it would enable the source of the book to be
> made available for contribution in the Asterisk docs repository.
In the future, it *may* be a possibility, but for now, commercial
distribution and derivitive works (changes) are *not* allowed at this
time. I believe these are fair requests because from a knowledge
standpoint, the community gains a tremendous amount by having freely
available, professionally edited text, and O'Reilly still retains
control of the work and distribution of the work so that it can first,
pay for the costs involved in the creation and publication of the
book, and second, to make it profitable so as to allow them to
continue creating more great books for everyone.

--
Leif Madsen - http://www.leifmadsen.com
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk

Leif Madsen wrote:
> PS: If the Asterisk Documentation Project website becomes slow due to
> the number of people accessing it at once, we appoligize and
> appreciate your patience. For those of you who are able to obtain the
> full copy, please consider helping us out by creating mirrors and
> torrents and posting them to the list by replying to this thread.
> Thanks!
>
>   
Is there any reason why the book wasn't released as a single pdf rather 
than the individual chapter pdf's?  Using pdftk, I merged the pdfs back 
into a single document (11mb), then zipped it back up.  Is there any 
restriction that would prevent me from mirroring this as a complete pdf 
rather than individual pdfs?



Darrick

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Hi List..

How do I offer my help (and bandwidth) to become a mirror for this Book ?

Best Regards


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