Again, happy to host a web site with forums for the sipx community, at no cost, if anyone wants to take me up on it.
Mike On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:42:49 -0700, Jonathan Petersen wrote: > I found the wiki and list very easily when getting started with sipXecs. I > > first arrived at the www.sipfoundry.org website and immediately started > looking for the word documentation... because I didn't find that I looked at > the menu options and discovered wiki... seems close enough so I checked it > out (now there is a great sidebar addition that includes links to many > relevant documentation sources). Most of the information I needed to get > started learning about the features and installation process were right > there. > > The first version I installed was having a little trouble with my test > hardware, so I Google'd and found a note about manual setup which worked > fine for me. Later versions including the current 4.0.1 had no problem > installing on my hardware. > > At times I have found information on the wiki incomplete, dated, or just > unclear and at that point have turned to the user's mailing list > http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users, which I have found > pretty responsive. Especially if I hit it up first thing in the morning > (west coast time) as a decent amount of people on the list are east > coasters. I have made suggestions on the list of possible updates to the > wiki pages that would help clarification and even offered to make them once > I get correct information. > > As a general preference I do find myself using Google to search the lists > for specific information in which case I start out by using "site: > sipx-wiki.calivia.com" and then whatever terms or keywords I am researching. > If I don't find what I am looking for there, I turn to general Google > searches. There are not as many information sources on the web (*yet) > dedicated to sipXecs but I think that will change fairly quickly as people > jump on board and the community grows. > > One thing that would be of great benefit to the sipXecs project is a forum > site where others could read through troubleshooting dialogs and passively > learn the building blocks of a successful install, or troubleshooting > process... this would help the process of converting the general tacit > knowledge of the community into more explicit knowledge from the > practical/applied side. More specifically the cases where "I have followed > the instructions and directions from the wiki multiple times, but am either > missing some detail (that should be clarified) or my specific network > configuration (something beyond the sipXecs box) is causing a lower level > issue not allowing things to work as expected" > > Not everybody coming to the project will have experience with SIP at the > protocol level, or VoIP concepts in general and may have a hard time > understanding what all of the GUI settings will do, or why they are there, > or why they are required under one circumstance and not another. It's not > that people on the list don't know that... it just may be that it hasn't > been captured in "context" to the extent where new users passively reading > somebody else's experience can directly correlate it into explicit > knowledge. > > Jonathan > > > Ontra LLC > www.ontraonline.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Damian > Krzeminski > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [sipx-users] good starting page for > sipXecs(http://sipxecs.sipfoundry.org) > > I found this comment from one of the users in JIRA: > > http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-6270 > > "I am at my wits end with this system. I cannot find a How to anywhere for > this. Asteriske, Trixbox etc, are all over the place with videos, forums > etc, but this, now where. Am I looking at the right place? I am about to > give up on this and go back to Trixbox." > > I am not writing this caving under not so subtle pressure (BTW if anyone - > especially Linsys users among us - can help Peter please respond) but I am > surprised that it's difficult to find all the needed links to our lists and > the wiki. > > My favorite starting page is: http://sipxecs.sipfoundry.org > > If you type "linksys" in the search box there it brings up wiki page and > couple of issues that seem relevant to Peter's problem. > > Unfortunately http://www.sipfoundry.org usually shows up at the top of the > google search. It seems to be most useful for casual reviewer not for the > users or developers. > > For all you new sipXecs users out there: do you still remember your first > experience when looking for help with sipx? How did you find this list? the > wiki? > D. > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
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