[OLPC-devel] OLPC development project organization. Status calls? Other techniques?

[Jim Gettys]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 13:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 11:08 +0200, Gabor Dolla wrote:
> > I friend of mine and I can configure Asterisk if we can log in from
> > remote but somebody must bring up the machine and connect it to POTS
> > (and to internet of course)
> 
> Does it really need POTS? 

Yup.  Experience is that people sometimes come in from the Cell network,
or their IP connection is too flaky.

> Does anybody _not_ have a copy of something
> like ekiga? There are even free SIP clients for Windows available.
> 
> Even if we really want to allow incoming POTS, it's not hard to get that
> -- at least in the UK there are many providers who offer that for free
> in the hope that you'll then start using it for _outgoing_ calls. I
> think they also get paid a small amount for terminating the POTS calls
> too.
> 

Broadvoice is happy to interoperate with Asterisk: www.broadvoice.com.

> No chance of me hosting the call on my own Asterisk box though -- my DSL
> sucks too much :)
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child