Ok guys I have to jump in here. Seems some of you took affront to my $20 paypal bounty.
Not sure how long some of you have been around here but the history behind the Weather app on the Trixbox (or Asterisk @ home as it used to be known back then) was that my wife used to always ask me what the weather was like outside because our NY apartment had double glazed floor to ceiling windows you couldn't always judge what the temperature was like. About the same time I was learning that Asterisk had text to speech functionality. Wanting to encourage the community to use this text to speech functionality more I posted a bounty to see if someone could get the weather report read to me on my asterisk server. (sadly I think there is still a lack of text to speech apps for Asterisk). I don't remember the original amount of the bounty (or who it was paid to) but I think it was about $40 to $50 or something like that. It was a super simple app 'dial *68" a ftp session would download the flat text file from the national weather service for my preprogrammed zip code and it would initiate a text to speech event. It was pure simplicity and perfect. Once it was posted to the community I don't know how many people have installed it but I've seen hundreds of variations and install guides since then. Every person that has ever come to my office who I've said hey check out this technology called Asterisk one of the functions I demonstrate along with voicemail to email and FOP conference rooms is "the weather call" How many of those people have gone out and installed asterisk I don't know but the point being it was a cool way to demonstrate advance apps rather than just plain old dial tone. Sorry some of you took affront to my $20 bounty and the current cost of your overpriced coffees. But my concept was maybe this would be a good way we could demonstrate Asterisk integration to the Tropo community. Guess not. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Inc d...@cognation.net +1-212-203-4357 New York +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David Backeberg Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:45 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] $20 Bounty On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Bill Michaelson <b...@cosi.com> wrote: > It's conceivable that the combined effort of these two responders required > less than ten minutes of time, yielding a theoretical pay rate of $120/hour. > > I wonder how much effort went into the other responses. I'm reminded of the allegory about... EVER HEAR THE STORY of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure out how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars. "What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!" So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill." The man sent a bill that read, Tapping with a hammer...................................$2 Knowing where to tap................................$9998 _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users