similar to: VUC Today@12 ET: Allison Smith

Hello, In the run up to Astricon [ http://astricon.net ] we'll be talking today to Tim Panton about his experiences with SfA. You're welcome to join in! Speaking of Tim, you can join the conference in W I D E B A N D at http://api.phonefromhere.com/gateway/zdx.xsql?conference=200901 - come early, channels are limited, seriously! 12 Noon EDT today is http://tr.im/nextvuc in your time

Greetings and salutations Asterisk community, I've been contacted by a man who has generously posted some prompts he commissioned from Allison Smith. If you haven't heard Allison in humor mode, you owe it to yourself to hear this. Joey Lindstrom has decided to place these in the public domain and he's asking Digium to include them in the Asterisk prompts collection. Because he's

Hi, Alistair Cunningham of Integrics was our guest yesterday. We talked about Integrics new product Geons, a suite of software for building large-scale distributed enterprise applications. The recorded session is now available here: http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/geons/ The extremely rare John Todd was sighted (and heard) at this event. If you are developing a product or service

Hello, In about one hour we should be chatting with Tim Behrins of Voxbone about their initiative, iNum. I say "should" because he's the scheduled guest, but I haven't heard from him today :) Next week, we'll be "Hacking VoIP" Feel free to top post your answers, it seems to stimulate conversation. /r http://VoipUsersConference.org for the usual data or jump on

Hi, Our guest today is Steven Johnson, President of Ingate Systems. We'll talk with him about the changing role of Session Border Controllers and E-SBC and how this hardware facilitates the use of SIP in "difficult" conditions, about general SIP security considerations, and why you might need such devices on your network. VUC is every Friday at 12 Noon EDT, 9AM PDT (ouch, I'll

Hey folks, Here's your chance to report in about Astricon, ask or answer general asterisk questions, talk about your asterisk-related (or voip-related) projects, sites, work, anything. We interested and listening. We have a great core group on these conferences, even though Indiana is disproportionately represented for some reason :) This conference is NOT limited to developers or gurus,

Hi all, What is Bufferbloat? http://gettys.wordpress.com/bufferbloat-faq/ Maybe this kind of discussion will bring out the John Todds of this world, I can only hope and dream: Bufferbloat: http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/bufferbloat/ Call in and talk to Jim Gettys, who co-developed X Window System and was a part of HTTP/1.1 - this is someone we'll all be proud to meet, and you can

Hi, Few subjects cause as many arguments as "which SIP client works best?" on IRC #asterisk, voip forums, and probably the -users mailing list. I have tried most of the SIP clients available in the last 5 years, both with Asterisk and other platforms such as OnSIP.com, IConnectHere.com, ZipDX.com and the venerable old FWD (in the days when that almost worked). Speaking of ZipDX, we

Happy New Year in advance by a few ticks for the northern hemisphere. Here's the first topic and guest for 2009: In any voice path there are several potential sources of quality problems, ranging from echo to voice dropouts and everything in between. With VoIP systems the potential for quality problems increases dramatically, often times making it very difficult to identify the source of

Hi, Allison Smith continues to contribute to the open source asterisk resources and she is launching a new site that will make it even easier to grab sound files. Allison joins us to talk about that and whatever else comes up. She says: "I have been the Voice of Asterisk -- the world's fastest-growing telephony platform -- since its inception (which for me, was marked by an animated

Quick reminder before Astricon (from which we will be reporting from live): Tomorrow's guest will be VoIP author Alex Robar. Alex has worked with open source telephony solutions for the past four years, and has collaborated on the development and growth of an international Asterisk-based VoIP peering network. His book is FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions and we'll be chatting with

This should be interesting, a double header Friday at 12 Noon EDT, session 2 at 1PM EDT. 1) Pascal Dor?, Media5corp. Pascal will talk about what they've been up to in the year since his last visit. Thanks to the Asterisk mailing list and VoIP community, their Media5fone was able to fix its g722 implementation. I like their product a lot and used it extensively on my old iPod Touch to make and

Hi all, Friday at 12 Noon EDT, we'll be talking to Emil Ivov of Jitsi.org (formerly SIP Communicator) and Thiago Rocha Camargo (of Nimbuzz) about Jabber, something the Asterisk community is becoming more interested in by the day. Join us to learn more about Jabber and SIP or to share your knowledge and experience. As always, the VUC discussion includes people from very diverse backgrounds, so

Hi, I hope everyone will have a joyous holiday time. If you happen to find yourself at loose ends on Friday after the eat and drink fest that many of us will be privileged to enjoy Thursday, come and talk with us about Skype for Asterisk. Steve Sokol, who's in charge of the beta for this module at Digium, has courageously agreed to give us a report on how it's coming along. Spread this

Hi, Barring WW (wifi woes), I will be "broadcasting" live from the HD Communications Summit this Friday. Usually we begin at 12 Noon EST but we may start earlier so please check the site, IRC, Twitter or Facebook for the exact start time. If any of you are planning to be there, please email me if you'd care to have coffee or something stronger. Also, if you happen to be in the

Hi, Lots of VoIP, SIP and Asterisk-related discussion and some free phones and Polycom software today, join us at the usual place: http://www.voipusersconference.org Call sip:200901 at login.zipdx.com Skype:vuc.me (via Skype for Asterisk and PhonefromHere.com) Listen Live 16khz mp3 Stream: http://vuc.li/mp3stream None of the above will work until about 15 minutes before. The mp3 stream goes

Interesting offering, free from Twilio, this is php you install on your own server to build a brandable "VBX". Worth checking out! Listen to tomorrow for more about this and talk to lead engineer or Twilio CEO if you have any questions; sip:200901 at login.zipdx.com or Skype:vuc.me IRC: #vuc on Freenode.net or http://vuc.me/irc Info about VUC is htp://vuc.me Best, /r

To celebrate three years of the VoIP Users Conference, we're doing a 24-hour VoIP conference call today. Details are at http://voipathon.org IRC: #vuc on Freenode.net SIP: voipathon at vuc.onsip.com - Enter 22622# and your PIN# if you have no PIN you can listen using 1# iNum - +883 51007 039 9924 PSTN: +1 724 444 7444 again, 22622#1# or PIN# if you have one. Those of you in the

Hi, As usual, you can get all the dial in information at http://VoipUsersConference.org IRC is on Freenode.net #voip-users-conference join this even if you can't call in. Call via SIP: talkshoe at vuc.onsip.com (thanks to OnSip.com) Call via PSTN (724) 444-7444 DTMF 22622# 1# or try this: 7463#22622#1 at proxy.ideasip.com (thanks to IdeaSIP.com) or to just look up talkshoe server IP:

I'm sending in a set of voiceover requests to Allison Smith this afternoon. I haven't kept up with the -users list to know if there is someone keeping track of this stuff any more... We only have a few phrases for her to record, and if anyone has applications which require Allison's voice for the "asterisk-sounds" repository, let me know. I'll be sending this in