Wild & Crazy Things You

Can Build with Asterisk and

Open Source Telephony
David Troy
Digium Asterisk World 2008
Hi!
My Name Is
Dave Troy
Likes Dislikes
People Cell Phones
Open Source Microsoft Some Influences:
Mashups .NET Thomas Jefferson
Ruby PHP Walt Disney
E-Mail Voicemail
Asterisk Phones
This Guy
Not This
“Imagination is
More Important
Than Knowledge”
 A Little Knowledge
Doesn’t Hurt Though!
Imagination
Knowledge
What do we
know?
 Things We Don’t
Need More Of
PBX Appliances IVRs (In General)
Hosted Voicemail FXO/FXS Interfaces
VoIP Phones FAX Devices
IAX vs. SIP Debates Shared Voice/Data T1’s
X-Rated Chat Services Unified Messaging
Termination Providers extensions.conf
Origination Providers PHP
Imagine Instead...
Accountable
Engaged
Politicians!
Voters!

Talking
Robot Complaining
Vacuums! Plants!
Imagination
Knowledge
Distributed
Callcenter
Empower an army of
volunteers via
Asterisk and the web
RoombaAsterisk
“Press 1 to Start Sucking”
Calls to Congress
Inbound Calls Routed and Mapped
Bill Collector
Place Calls at Random Intervals
with Random Caller ID
Alarm Receiver
Do Stuff When Alarms Go Off
Plants That Bitch
Botanicall’s Sensors Call You Out on Plant Abuse
The WebPhone
Idea for Dialing Websites via IP Address,
rendered with Text-to-Speech
Live Election Returns
Asterisk + Cell Phones = Field Reporting
For Election Night
Asterisk Configurator
Database-Driven Framework and UI for Asterisk
 1. Go to Website, Enter Your Phone Number
2. System Calls You
3. System Calls Your Representative
4. All Interaction is Logged
5. Caller is Recorded, Callee is Not

Contact Your Politician

Web-Based Tool Calls You, then Your Reps
iPhone 2-Leg Calling
Magic URL Calls iPhone, then Calls a Contact
http://iphone.popvox.com/aGFoYSB5b3Ugc3Vjawo=
Imagination
Knowledge
Tools of The Trade

Solid Understanding
AMI & AGI
Ruby
Rails
Adhearsion
Distributed Callcenter
Rails
App Dialer
(DRb)

SQL Asterisk
Election Returns
Rails Adhearsion
App

SQL Asterisk
RoombaAsterisk
SIP
Asterisk
Phone

Shell
Roomba Scripts
Imagination
Knowledge
Twittervision
Realtime Mashup of Twitter, Facebook, and
Google Maps
Flickrvision
Real-Time Mashup of Flickr & Google Maps
Imagination
Knowledge
Thank You
dave@popvox.com
David Troy
blog: davetroy.com
twitter: davetroy
Facebook: David Troy

“The Willy Wonka of Twitterland”

- Slate Magazine, April 2007