OK, so is anyone interested? I've just bought the O'Reilly book on Asterisk and I'd be fascinated to hear from anyone who has implemented anything similar, who has experience of databases of volunteers, interesting ideas, Asterisk-fu etc.
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Idea: Distributed phone bank for political campaigners (or anyone else) Date: Saturday 23 May 2009 From: Alexander Harrowell <[email protected]> To: "mySociety public, general purpose discussion list" <developers- [email protected]> 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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