In that case, Asterisk is not going to work. Can we trial Ventrilo? The linux
client is coming out soon enough.
Asterisk lacks many of the features that we need to actually make it popular.
If we cant use Ventrilo, i'm going to try building a simple system for our
purposes.-Matt
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:06:25 -0700From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Re: [Toolserver-l] Exemption to third party software ruleI think you
misunderstand. Asterisk is a phone PBX that supports VoIP, it is not a internet
chat application like Vent or TS. No client is going to have a GUI anything
like Vent, the clients used will be so called softphones that will dial the
server. Channels are conference rooms in Asterisk, like office phone conference
systems. Moderation can be done, but again the clients will have no GUI for
this. Asterisk can use TTS but not for what you want. People will need a mic
(or phone) to use the system. For clients you need a softphone, Kiax is a good
IAX softphone and X-lite is a good SIP softphone (or just google for "sip
softphone" or "iax softphone"). A phone gateway would be possible (and even
totally free, but you can't get free tollfree numbers). I wouldn't suggest
trying to do this on your own if you have little VoIP knowledge as the learning
curve is quite large. If you don't use a configuration GUI (which I think is a
really bad idea) you would have to write the dialplan logic by hand and
configure the rest of the system.
On 10/6/07, The Fearow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In that case, I think i'm going to do with something like Asterisk. I chose
Ventrilo as its already popular and has a lot of options. Does asterisk support
channels, moderation, etc? One other feature about Ventrilo that as far as I
can tell would be more difficult with something like Asterisk, is the TTS
engine for users without a microphone. It sounds decent (although for those
poor SP1 users they get Microsoft Sam), and allows users with no microphone to
participate in voice chat. Could anyone provide some examples of good
compatible clients that support these features? -MattNote: I also love the idea
of a gateway from standard telephone, but we probably wouldnt be able to do
that. If we could it'd be a great way to start a de Wikinews Hotline (see the
main page of Wikinews).
> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:08:18 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Exemption to
> third party software rule>
> On 10/5/07, The Fearow < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> > Hey,> > I'd like to
> get an exemption to run a copy of Ventrilo> > (
> http://www.ventrilo.com/index.php) for use as an> > alternative to IRC. For a
> start it will be for Wikinews, although I intend> > to make it into a general
> Wikimedia server. I'll make channels available > > that pretty much align
> with the IRC ones.> >> > I can answer any questions if necessary.> > Ignoring
> for a moment whatever issue Wikimedia Deutschland may have> with someone
> running a VoIP server on equipment they own: > > I think it's a bad idea to
> run a closed/proprietary VoIP service with> limited cross platform support.>
> > If we want to do VoIP stuff we should use Asterisk, which I've> maintained
> before and wouldn't mind helping with. The challenge then > becomes making
> good client software recommendations, which is> something that I can't help
> with for windows/mac users. :) There are,> however, a lot of options.> >
> Beyond the advantages of staying in the realm of free/open protocols > and
> software using asterisk has other advantages: It's very easy to> tie
> applications/tools into asterisk. For example, when I ran a demo> asterisk
> server for some Wikimedia stuff I setup an interface that > allowed you to
> listen call a 1800 number and listen to spoken> Wikipedia articles, and the
> interface only took a few minutes to> setup.> >
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