[Telephony] Reminder: Telephony meeting tonight (Thursday April 29th)

[Alex Randell]

This month's meeting of the VLUG telephony SIG will be:

Date:  Thursday April 29, 2004 (today!)
Time:  7pm
Location:  #1-235 Cook St (corner of Cook and Chapman)
Directions: If you are heading down Cook St towards the Dallas 
waterfront I am on the same side as and just past Beagle Pub, Oxford 
Foods and Rosie's Diner at the corner of Cook and Chapman. Buzzer #1 is 
labelled "A Randell".

Agenda:
- need to assess where people are at and what the next step is. Do you 
all have Asterisk setup and running / stuck on compile errors / afraid 
to ask the list / too busy, etc.

News:
- it seems that neither PrimusTel nor Vonage.ca are jumping to offer us 
DIDs for Victoria without bundled services. This is no suprise, since 
there's little money to be made in it for them!
  If I get a service for Victoria I may be willing to buy a small number 
of DIDs for others for telephony testing provided they _pay_me_ the 
requisite fees (~ CAD$8/mo).
- I recently disproved one of the fundamental theorems of our time by 
counterexample. I argue the idea that 100 monkeys could write 
Shakespeare is flawed. I have  spent
  an infinite amount of time talking to at least a hundred minimum wage 
support phone workers at Vonage.ca .  I am 95% confident that they 
collectively
  would never be able to spell telephony backwards let alone produce 
Will's great works.. (Perhaps one of my unstated base assumptions is 
flawed..?)

I look forward to seeing you all tonight!

Cheers,
Alex
arandell@alumni.uvic.ca