This is a great selection of topics. I'd echo an earlier follow up comment from Chuck Mariotti about the "flood" that is out there, but I think a high quality series of articles as Simon suggests, is a good way to help (they could even be vetted/reviewed by this group). Asteriskdocs.org is pretty darned good - (hosting a professionally edited book really helps bring up the quality of the general documentation!) but it's early days in the popularization of Asterisk and there are some gaps.
As the rails and turbogears crowd have shown, a screen capture instructional/demo video with a voice over track that explains what is happening can go a long way in the marketing dept. If you use VMWare to boot up trixbox and make the screen recording it'd be pretty easy to put something together (a good written script for the voiceover helps). I still think flashy "multimedia" is better if the voiceover is able to say: "for more details on this kind of configuration see section 3 of the Asterisk cookbook chapter on setting up a dialplan", etc. - i.e. if there are good written docs (ironically people complain of rails and turbogears written documentation). Andrew's topic list nicely breaks things down into bite sized chunks that could build on a base set of documentation such as "basic setup", "installing asterisk on (Linux/*BSD/OSX)" and the like. I'd be interested in "use cases" too - fairly detailed implementation scenarios for small home office, small business user, NGO, big org with legacy PBX etc. Cheers, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 11:14, Simon P. Ditner wrote: >> I'd like to start writing some monthly columns highlighting the sort of >> activities going on within the group. Do any of you have some interesting >> projects that are bucking the trend that you'd like/are allowed to talk >> about with me? > > I love writing, and I'm fairly competent at it. What I lack a lot of is time. > > Others have suggested some topics, but here are some more: > - slimming down Asterisk (small systems) > - securing Asterisk > - findme/followme > - DISA (securely use your VOIP pricing from anywhere) > - Home automation (x10 light/appliance control/status, door opening, room > monitoring) > - Cell phone integration > - CDRs and databases (i.e. WHY and examples of utility) > - DUNDI networks > > -A. -- Graham Todd - bellanet.org 613.236.6163 #2443
