Hi, Next week on the VUC, we will be reviewing as many ways to bullet proof your entry into the mailing list or the IRC channel. We all know RTFM is the first step. It is in the interest of everyone in the community to make as many resources know as possible. If you have a site or book that is not on the list below, please either post to this thread or send it to me using http://delicious.com with the tag for:voipusersconference http://voip-info.org http://lists.digium.com http://www.asteriskblog.com/ http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ http://www.voipusersconference.org http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/ http://www.mgraves.org/voip/ http://www.voip-news.com http://www.the-asterisk-book.com http://www.voipspeak.net/ http://www.venturevoip.com/news.php http://www.asteriskguru.com/ http://asterisk.net.au/ Note that nearly every blog starts with Asterisk + Skype news :) Besides the above and many more we'll talk about, there are countless "niche" resources like Lumenvox and their tutorials in speech recognition Please add your resources to the list and better yet, send them via delicious.com /r ps. I wish I had a recording of my entry into the world of asterisk via #asterisk. The words "crack pipe" and "moose .p..." were an integral part. Ring any bells? As I've said many times, my favorite intro is still John Todd's two articles: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/03/asterisk.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/22/asterisk2.html They are dated, yes, but there's more info per inch there than a lot of other sites! Thanks, John! Another great (but again outdated) text: http://automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm Someone needs to start these initiatives again for 1.6.