Is anyone interested in the idea of using Asterisk, plus increasingly big and cheap GSM/UMTS bundles, to create a distributed phone bank?
Volunteers state times they are available and this is held in the database - richer information, like locations or areas of interest, could be held as well - and someone initiates a campaign. It retrieves the volunteers who match the criteria, then iterates through them, initiating a call to them, playing a briefing message, and then bridging them to the target number. You could then do some post call processing, perhaps keeping a log of what happened on the call. It could get smarter, too, perhaps messaging people by fancy criteria - group membership and location, for example - and there is no reason why it couldn't do inbound as well.
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