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
