I like the symmetry of this idea. The general purpose of Group Paging and group chat is notification. 'Group notifications' triggered via IM, could be enhanced to automatically find the best means to notify a person within a group (IM or page) based on IM presence/BLF status (text-to -speech would be required as Ranga mentions). A default notification preference would select the preferred method of notification. Group defintiion for specific kinds of notifications could be based on emergency response teams, project teams, functional groups, etc. and therefore may include groups in addition to those defined as Paging Groups. Re-purposing Paging groups as a special IM buddy group is a great start.
________________________________ From: M. Ranganathan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 5:20 PM To: Joly, Robert (CAR:9D30) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] Integrating openfire with paging groups functionality On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Robert Joly <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I was thinking of ways to more tightly integrate our openfire server with sipXecs and I got an idea that I would like to share with the list for feedback. SipXecs has the concept of paging groups which defines a set of users that will receive a paging announcement. We could mirror the paging groups in openfire in the following way. Every paging group defined in sipXecs could appear as a buddy in a user's IM client (all paging groups could be placed in a special 'Paging Groups' IM buddy group). Whenever a user wants to send an 'IM page' to the members of paging group XYZ, it simply sends an IM to its XYZ paging group buddy. The openifre plug-in will see to it that all members of the paging group with IM accounts receive the notification. Is this something that is worth tracking as a future enhancement? Any ideas on how to improve this idea? I like it. Seems like a nice feature. Of course, one can think of enhancements such as ringing the phone associated with the user if the presence status of the user indicates he is "away". In the fullness of time we could even text-to-speech the 'IM page' to the SIP phones belonging to the paging group... Cheers, bob _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ -- M. Ranganathan
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