Alec Saunders SquawkBox

I am sitting in the Toronto Asterisk User Group meeting.  It’s a great turnout! Jon Arnold, who helped bring this meeting to VON, should be really proud.  There are probably 80 to 100 people here.  The room is packed.

Claude Patry from the Montreal AUG gave a demo of his Voice Changer application.  It’s great fun — want to sound like a stalker, or Alvin the Chipmunk?  VoiceChanger is for you! Claude also talked about the professionally recorded french prompts which he will have available.  Missed the URL.  Sorry!

Noam and Julien gave a great presentation on the iotum Asterisk integration kit.  Naturally, I was very proud. It got a really good reception.  They couldn’t finish the presentation, but you can head over to www.iotum.com, and get accounts and download the code if you want.

Ian Darwin gave a great presentation on his VoIP setup. It was really cool to see how he had integrated VoIPUser.ORG, FWD, and Unlimitel with his system.  It was a great demonstration of the power of Asterisk.

John Van Ostrand finished the evening with a discussion of the AGI programming interface.  It’s a very good overview of AGI.

Well worth the time.

Jon Arnold’s becoming a positive whiz with his Nokia N90.  I watched him whipping around the show yesterday, enthusiastically snapping photos and taking videos.  This morning he had posted them to his web site.  He shot a few minutes of video from the beginning of my talk, which will give a good flavour for the big numbers that are at the beginning.

Jeff Pulver, after staying up for 24 hours, and flying from Israel to Toronto, was a lucid participant on the bloggers panel yesterday as well, and posted this from the show.  He’s got a good set of links to other folks.