MUUG Meeting, Mar 9, 7:30PM -- Voice over IP
Gilbert E. Detillieux
meeting on Tuesday, March 9. The meeting topic for this month is
as follows:
Voice over IP
Bill Reid will give a brief intro to VoIP technology with emphasis on
the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Bill will also demonstrate
installing and configuring Asterisk as well as a number of SIP hard
and soft phones. Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on
Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and
more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can
interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using
relatively inexpensive hardware.
The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of
every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and
August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a
MUUG member to attend.
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Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice
Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to
sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you
(in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15
PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or
you may not get in.
Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot
across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is
also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening.
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Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <ged...@muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
Pelican3
are they usually well attended ?
ged...@cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) wrote in message news:<c22nmh$fi7$2...@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
The Wizard of Oz
> never been to one of these meetings.
> are they usually well attended ?
<snip>
This particular group has quite a lot of people attending. From what I've
seen it's the only group in Winnipeg not to see a decline due to the
internet. Normally the room has a couple of spare chairs. Last meeting had
Steve (the guy from IBM) getting more.
Still, well attended is a relative term. There aren't hundreds of people.
It's in the mid to high tens. In it's heyday even the Apple// group had
200-300 people at the meetings. All user groups have had a drastic
decline. Oddly enough this one has had an increase.
Later
Mike
Gilbert E. Detillieux
> never been to one of these meetings.
> are they usually well attended ?
Our group membership stands at roughly 60 members. Typical monthly
meeting attendance is anywhere between 25 and 40 people, and is usually
around 30 or so.
Non-members are always welcome to come and check out a meeting.
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Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <ged...@cs.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/
University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609