VLUG Meeting Notes 2003.04.08

TOPIC: Linux Telephony

Presenter: Tim Clark

NEW RELEASES

• Software:
  • Mozilla 1.3
  • ALSA 0.9.1 released - This is the first stable release in the 0.9 series.
  • Galeon 1.3.3 released
  • Workrave 1.2.0 ''Stats'R'Us''"Workrave now keeps track of all your activity and allows you to browse through any date in history to see for how long you used the computer, how many keys you pressed, the distance your mouse moved, and many other statistical data."
  • GNOME 2.2.1 Released
  • KDE 3.1.1 Released
  • OpenOffice 1.1 Beta released
• Distros:
  • RedHat 9 Released
  • Mandrake 9.1 Released
  • Lindows Available at the Brick
  • Slackware 9.0 released (March 19th)
  • Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 released (March 19th)

GENERAL NEWS

• Free Software Makes Telephone Users' Lives Easier in India
• XFree86 Controversy: Keith Packard's response
• CNET News: Schism Hits Key Open-Source Group
• XFree86.org: Two on "Open Governance of X Development" (two articles)
• XFree86 dust-up questions X11 model
• What's So Free About This DVD? (Revolution OS)
• New Mozilla Roadmap

Newbie Minute: no newbie minute this month

Main Presentation:

See voIP

• Linux Telephony Applications.
• TDM - Time Division Multiplexing
• Circuits can be POTS, ISDN, (BRI,PRI)
• PBX - Private Branch Exchange
• FXO - Foreign Exchange Office
• (does not exist in voIP world'
• voIP is routed packet data
• Bearer Protocol-CODEC G723, Speex, etc.
• Linux Telephony Clients
• gnophone, linphone, Openh323, etc.
• Asterisk is an Open Source hybrid TDM and packet voice PBX
  and IVR platform with ACD functionality. - (got it?)
  (Asterisk is the middleware)

Meeting Comments

• Presentation was well received and we all had a look at the extensive Hardware setup letting us make free phone calls over the web.
• Presentation notes online at:
  http://ladybug.vlug.org/vlug/meetings/presentations/

Book Raffle

1. Oracle & Open Source
   O'Reilly and Associates
   - Won by Brian Bulten
2. Linux Web Server CD Bookcase
   O'Reilly and Associates
   - Won by Mark McLaughlin

Meeting Adjourned  to Boston Pizza.

Next Meeting

Where: University of Victoria, Cornett Room B-108
When: May 13, 2003
Topic: Win4Lin (Tentative) by Andrew Willard

Notes from stand-in VLUG Secretary Mark McLaughlin.
Edited by Mike Pfleger - VLUG Secretary.
secretary@vlug.org