FOSS Solutions with Asterisk

Posted by JD 02/13/2009 at 14:52

So, I was listening to a podcast about Asterisk today with the founder of Asterisk (an open source telephony system and PBX), Mark Spencer. Anyway, he was describing all the things that the community had added to the base code and all the extensions that were available.

About 50% of Asterisk code was created by the community. The rest by the Digium company according to

A few extensions were mentioned, the one that caught my attention was Booty Dialier. There’s a nice flowchart at the link. The premise is that towards an end of a night out, single people may want to find some overnight company. You preconfigure your list. Then on the night out, you call a number and login with voice/dtmf commands. The Asterisk server calls your list in turn asking them the fairly direct question. If they answer yes, you are connected. If no, they get a prerecorded message. This isn’t a new extension, it is just new to me.

There are a number of other voice/computer interface systems for Asterisk.

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