Dave Troy's Presentation at eComm 2008

Slide 1: Wild & Crazy Things You Can Build with Asterisk and Open Source Telephony David Troy Digium Asterisk World 2008

Slide 2: Hi! My Name Is Dave Troy Likes Dislikes People Cell Phones Open Source Microsoft Some Influences: Thomas Jefferson Mashups .NET Walt Disney Ruby PHP E-Mail Voicemail Asterisk Phones

Slide 3: This Guy

Slide 4: Not This

Slide 5: “ Imagination is More Important Than Knowledge”

Slide 6: A Little Knowledge Doesn’t Hurt Though!

Slide 7: Imagination

Slide 8: Knowledge

Slide 9: What do we know?

Slide 10: Things We Don’t Need More Of IVRs (In General) PBX Appliances FXO/FXS Interfaces Hosted Voicemail FAX Devices VoIP Phones Shared Voice/Data T1’s IAX vs. SIP Debates Unified Messaging X-Rated Chat Services extensions.conf Termination Providers PHP Origination Providers

Slide 11: Imagine Instead... Accountable Engaged Politicians! Voters! Talking Robot Complaining Vacuums! Plants!

Slide 12: Imagination

Slide 13: Knowledge

Slide 14: Distributed Callcenter Empower an army of volunteers via Asterisk and the web

Slide 15: RoombaAsterisk “Press 1 to Start Sucking”

Slide 16: Calls to Congress Inbound Calls Routed and Mapped

Slide 17: Bill Collector Place Calls at Random Intervals with Random Caller ID

Slide 18: Alarm Receiver Do Stuff When Alarms Go Off

Slide 19: Plants That Bitch Botanicall’s Sensors Call You Out on Plant Abuse

Slide 20: The WebPhone Idea for Dialing Websites via IP Address, rendered with Text-to-Speech

Slide 21: Live Election Returns Asterisk + Cell Phones = Field Reporting For Election Night

Slide 22: Asterisk Configurator Database-Driven Framework and UI for Asterisk

Slide 23: 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

Slide 24: iPhone 2-Leg Calling Magic URL Calls iPhone, then Calls a Contact http://iphone.popvox.com/aGFoYSB5b3Ugc3Vjawo=

Slide 25: Imagination

Slide 26: Knowledge

Slide 27: Tools of The Trade Solid Understanding AMI & AGI Ruby Rails Adhearsion

Slide 28: Distributed Callcenter Rails Dialer App (DRb) SQL Asterisk

Slide 29: Election Returns Adhearsion Rails App SQL Asterisk

Slide 30: RoombaAsterisk SIP Asterisk Phone Shell Roomba Scripts

Slide 31: Imagination

Slide 32: Knowledge

Slide 33: Twittervision Realtime Mashup of Twitter, Facebook, and Google Maps

Slide 34: Flickrvision Real-Time Mashup of Flickr & Google Maps

Slide 35: Imagination

Slide 36: Knowledge

Slide 37: Thank You dave@popvox.com David Troy blog: davetroy.com twitter: davetroy Facebook: David Troy “The Willy Wonka of Twitterland” - Slate Magazine, April 2007

Slide 38: An eComm 2008 presentation – see eCommMedia.com for more details