On Tuesday 07 August 2007 2:39:48 pm 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 Board conference room should hav no anonymous access. all other access must be through a pin. as for the rest anonymous should be read only. > 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. > > 2) Conferences should be able to be recorded. Status: in development. definitely needed > 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. sounds sane > 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. numbers are a necessary evil. along with this it would be good to be able to log into a web page get list of users/numbers and current registered status. this would be nice to look up in ekiga and other softphones directly also > 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. absolute must. for the same reason we don't store email > 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. If anyone wants to volunteer a DID so they can dial in then please feel free to do so. > 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. I would like to provide sample asterisk configs also. not sure if anyone other than me will use an existing asterisk setup to tie into fedora. > 8) The PBX is currently running on publictest4 - need to identify > permanent host and move the setup there. Firewall may need fixing up, > puppet needs to be set up, and Nagios monitoring configured. Probably > need a sysadmin-pbx group set up so that the appropriate individuals can > manage the system. Status: not started. setting up in puppet should be fairly trivial once we work out what we want and where. Dennis
