Features for Fedora Project PBX 1.0
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 7 19:49:27 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 14:39 -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> Testing has been going well, and people seem to like/want/need the
> service so I thought that we should nail down what features we want in
> the "Fedora Project PBX 1.0". Here's a list based on what I'd like to
> see and what I've gathered from IRC/email/voice conferences.
>
> 1) Permanent voice conferences for various Fedora subgroups.
> Conferences identified so far:
>
> fedora-board
> virtual-fudcon
> infrastructure
> art
Are these being driven through the astdb and the pin-possible mechanism
now or are they separate Conference() invocations? If the latter I think
maybe we should make them into the former. For consistency's sake. What
do you think?
> Other permanent voice conferences would be requested through a Fedora
> Infrastructure ticket. Larger conferences may need some sort of
> moderation system. Open question: should anonymous SIP callers be
> allowed to talk on the permanent conferences or should they be
> listen-only? Status: basic conferencing is working, moderation features
> are lacking in conferencing application and need to be developed.
Listen only unless given extra powers by a moderator?
> 3) Ad-hoc voice conferences. Anyone with a FAS account would be able to
> request an ad-hoc voice conference (optionally controlled via a PIN)
> through a web interface. Ad-hoc conferences would expire after a short
> time (24 hours?). These conferences would likely remain relatively
> small so moderation features would not be needed. Status: The web
> interface has not been started but Seth and I have the PBX side mostly
> working.
yes - that sounds good.
> 4) SIP accounts for anyone with a FAS account that requests them so that
> sip:<username>@fedoraproject.org would forward calls to your softphone.
> IAX2 accounts would be available for "power" users. Numeric extensions
> will be assigned for those situations where it's more convenient to dial
> by number rather than name. Status - design is nearly complete, need to
> automate account creation and more testing.
we may want to do this later, after we're sure things are working and
capacity is available for it.
> 5) Every SIP account would have voicemail. Instead of storing the
> messages locally, audio files will be forwarded to
> <username>@fedoraproject.org. Status - testing the design, depends on
> automatic creation of accounts from FAS.
how big could those files get? Again -concerned about capacity.
> 6) Access conferences and people from the PSTN (e.g. your cell phone).
> A US DID number will be obtained from an ITSP and forwarded to the
> Fedora Project PBX. DID numbers in other countries may be obtained if
> there is enough need and the costs are reasonable. Status: some testing
> has been done but a permanent ITSP needs to be identifed and an IVR
> needs to be developed so that all of the features can be accessed from
> the PSTN.
>
> 7) Documentation on how to set up Ekiga (for Gnome) and Twinkle (for
> KDE) needs to be developed. Other SIP clients will work, but you're on
> your own. Status: not started.
>
+1 - maybe someone from docs team?
-sv
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