KWVoIP

Hi everyone: The last few KWVoIP meetings at Egg Roll King have been sparsely attended. Several times only one of us has shown up, and I'm sure there have been days when there was no-one in attendance at all.

When Mojtaba first proposed setting up a VoIP User Group I envisioned telephony techs with buttsets popping up all over; instead the membership is people looking for cheaper phone service -- I didn't expect that. I think those members are satisfied (are you?), and haven't had the need to come to VoIP meetings.

However, there's still a (somewhat) lively discussion group in the conference chat room of our XMPP server. There hasn't been much discussion of VoIP issues, but gardening, music, and transit seem to be of interest (but the most frequent topic is about maintaining an XMPP server :-)

So, I propose that we meet one last time at the Egg Roll King Restaurant, and then retire to gardening and music in the XMPP conference chat room. Hope to see you all in both places!

--Bob.

• kwvoip.ca Domain Name Provider transfer
• Fundraising for domain name, telephony service provider

• 27 September is the 35th anniversary of the GNU Project. Join us for an egg roll with 35 candles!
• There is a good, detailed history of the GNU Project written by its founder, Richard Stallman: About The GNU Project.

• Joint meeting with the organizers from KW Linuxfest!

• Friday is the internationally celebrated System Administrator Appreciation Day, and since most KWVoIPers are SysAdmins too we should combine our meeting with the annual SysAdminDay Dinner at Abe Erb's Restaurant in Kitchener. You don’t have to be a SysAdmin to come to the SysAdminDay Dinner — Everybody’s welcome! SysAdmins-In-Training, Retired SysAdmins, even people just curious to know what an array of SysAdmins looks like.
• Please leave a comment on Bob Jonkman's blog so he can make a reservation.

• New calendar: https://kwvoip.ca/calendar/; we'll evaluate it -- do we keep or discard it?
• Today is Tau Day. We should celebrate by eating two pies.

• 24 May 1844: Samuel Morse sends the first Morse Code message "What hath God wrought" to inaugurate the first commercial telegraph between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
• Bob Jonkman has configured a VoIP system at the WR Greens office for the provincial election; he'll discuss setup and issues encountered during installation.

• Were you at the KWLUG meeting on Monday, 9 April 2018? Mike Stahl from Telium gave a presentation on VoIP Security.

  Have a listen to the KWLUG podcast, and follow the conversation in the Fediverse or on Twitter.

  What can we implement on our home VoIP systems to better secure them?

  Telium has requested the removal of their presentation from the KWLUG podcast, so the podcast now contains only Sandeep Johri's presentation on "Intro to Linux", still worth listening to.

• March 22, 1772 - John Canton, the British physicist who invented artificial magnets, dies. Without his invention we'd be using telephones with lodestones attached to the earpiece.

• February 22, 1924 - Long-distance telephone connection is established between Macleod, Alberta, and Toronto. In unrelated news, the town of Macleod declares bankruptcy that same year.
• The KWVoIP Web site is undergoing some changes, thanks to upgrades provided by our VPS donor, indieServe Networks. We can discuss future plans for mailing list services (currently hosted at SOBAC), an online calendar for meetings, and the cost of maintaining our domain name.

• On 25 January in 1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Phone Company. No word on long distance rates.
• Got phone toys for Christmas? Bring them along and show them off!
• No progress (yet) on our PBX, but we'll plan on how to integrate it to the PSTN.

• Product vendors: Where can we buy VoIP phones? ATAs? Switches?
• Perhaps we can explore Wire · Secure messenger: Business and personal conversations secured with end-to-end encryption and protected by European privacy laws.

• Brian Bentley has been telling his KWVoIP buddies about his transfer from Rogers to CarryTel. The transfer was easy, professional, on schedule, and successful.
• Speedtest.net results are steady 75/10 - even after school and early evening.
• The whole story and a reliability report at the KWVoIP meeting, Thursday, Oct 26th, 7 pm at Egg Roll King (dinner at 6).

• Brian Bentley has switched ISPs! The one he was on was too expensive, and the one that was recommended was too unresponsive. But Brian found CarryTel, which satisfies all sides of the trilemma: good, cheap, fast.
• After some adventures with the firewall, we continue the work on installing FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX.

• Brian Bentley will present AppearIn - "One click video conversations".
• If we have the time and the bandwidth, we will start a FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX installation on our server: pbx.kwvoip.ca. Let us know if you have a better mnemonic than "pbx"!

• System Administrator Appreciation Day is held every year on the last Friday of July, the 28th this year. In the Kitchener-Waterloo area that means System Administrators appreciate each other with a SysAdmin Day Dinner. VoIP Admins are SysAdmins too, so let's combine the KWVoIP meeting with SysAdminDay Dinner again this year.
• Please fill out the poll at Planning #SysAdminDay Dinner to figure out attendance as well as venue. On Monday, 24 July 2017 at noon I'll count the total number of responses, then make a reservation at the most popular choice. Vote early, vote often, vote for your family members and friends!
  —Bob Jonkman <bobjonkman@kwvoip.ca>

• Last month Ron Barnes introduced us to xmpp.kwvoip.ca, this month let's see what else is on the tes.kwvoip.ca server!

• Exploration of tes.kwvoip.ca, the "Telephonically Enhanced System"
  • Demonstration of XMPP service on xmpp.kwvoip.ca by Ron Barnes
  • Demonstration of DCL (issue management software) by Bob Jonkman (source code)
  • Configure a KWVoIP SIP phone number on your phone (if pbx.kwvoip.ca is ready)
• Many thanks to indieServe Networks for donating a VPS to KWVoIP!

• Bob Jonkman will demonstrate some features of the FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX Web interface. Bring your cell phone (or other VoIP enabled device) and you can configure it to connect to the demonstration server!
• This is a rescheduling of last month's presentation.

• Unfortunately, Bob is unable to present this month.
  FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX Deep Dive

  After a successful presentation of FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX at KW Linuxfest, Bob Jonkman can show off some features of the FreeSWITCH PBX and the FusionPBX Web interface. Bring your cell phone (or other VoIP enabled device) and you can configure it to connect to the demonstration server!

• This will be the last meeting of the year. Happy Holidays!
• Discussion of future directions for KWVoIP

• Future Directions
• Demonstration of FreeSwitch or FreePBX

• Michael Faraday is born on 22 September 1791. In 1821 he discovers the link between Electricity and Magnetism, which eventually leads to the development of the telephone. Sales of tin cans and string plummet.
• In absence of a formal presentation, we'll look at an installation of FreePBX, which provides a Web-based User Interface for Asterisk.

• DYK: On 25 August 1991 Linus Torvalds announced the first version of the Operating System that would eventually become GNU/Linux.

• It's System Administrator Appreciation Day!
• Brian Bentley presents the results of his Roaming Profile Experiments

• Brian Bentley - Roaming Profile Experiments
  Brian is unable to present this month, hopefully we'll catch up next month

• Jeff Smith - Ooma
• Commercial VoIP services; end-user requirements

• What happens when VoIP providers go out of business?
• Create a list of Commercial VoIP services; end-user requirements

• Commercial VoIP services; end-user requirements

• Web Presence; VoIP related topics!