I think Keith and John have very good points. Who should we target? I'd personally like to go after IT managers and business owners to get more open source telephony out in the field, and explain where our group fits in with that objective... Exposing you to other people's ideas through the presentations, state of the technology, the opportunity to network with peers and consultants, and service providers.
I have the Firecracker kit, and have set it up for previous shows, so that's certainly doable. I'd also like to see some of the bluetooth presence stuff. Add a bit of click-to-call, and that'd probably be enough whizbang. We could also demonstrate a hosted pbx locally ;-) -- in which case, I think we'd be demonstrating multi-tenanted features. Has anyone played with the video conferencing? On Feb 3, 2008 11:04 AM, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is anybody handy with basic electronics? I think people would be interested > > in things like > > > > Thermocouple that can be polled. You can phone in for temperature reports > > (or > > have a cron job that runs once a minute and makes a phone call with a > > recording if the temp exceeds some threshold). > > You can buy these in kit form, just need a soldering gun. I had one but > not sure I can find it :-( > > > Phone into your home and give it an eta. It'll set the furnace. > > Spend $20 on an X10 "firecracker" off eBay, it takes a fairly simple > command code over RS232 and can turn eg., lights (flashing or otherwise) > on or off, that plus a simple script and you're on the air. Having > something turn on immediately is more visceral than "I'll be home in > half an hour", though you could have them enter such stuff too. How about > > Enter 1 to turn lights on, 2 for furnace, 3 for A/C. > > I can't remember offhand if the Firecracker can sense the current on/off > state of a device. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- | It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what | you know for sure that just ain't so. -- Mark Twain | | The Toronto Asterisk Users Group | Join the discussion group by visiting http://taug.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
