[CS-FSLUG] Telephone systems

[Ron Thompson]

If you find one for Linux would you let me know too, or post it to the list.  
As an amateur radio operator with an interest in emergency services an 
automated message broadcast system could be used to call up volunteers.

   Ron

On Saturday 14 March 2009 08:09, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> It definitely exists for Windows:
>
> http://wareseeker.com/download/broadcast-by-phone-4.1.2.rar/1f958127b
>
> Not sure about Linux.
>
> J.E.B.
>
> > I may be mistaken, but I believe the intention is for the software to
> > call out, not receive calls as usually works with voice mail. Can
> > these voicemail programs call out?
> >
> > JSR/
> >
> > 2009/3/13 Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb at joshuacorps.org
> > <mailto:jeb at joshuacorps.org>>
> >
> >     Haven't looked in such a direction for a long time, but there used
> >     to be a few modem-based voice mail applications for Linux.  One
> >     such should fill the bill nicely, and much simpler to handle than
> >     Asterisk I would think.
> >
> >     J.E.B.
> >
> >
> >
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: "Josiah Ritchie" <josiah at ritchietribe.net
> >     <mailto:josiah at ritchietribe.net>>
> >     Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:46pm
> >     To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group."
> >     <christiansource at ofb.biz <mailto:christiansource at ofb.biz>>
> >     Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Telephone systems
> >
> >     I bet that if you knew what you were doing you could accomplish
> >     this pretty easily with Asterisk. It would be some custom
> >     scripting of the dial plan and maybe more. I'm only somewhat
> >     familiar with Asterisk, but know it to be extremely flexible.
> >
> >     JSR/
> >
> >     On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca
> >     <mailto:fbax at sympatico.ca>> wrote:
> >
> >         Up here in the "Great White North"; we sometimes have a "snow
> >         day" when the schools close due to weather.  Some schools have
> >         a system whereby they can have automated telephone calls made
> >         to all students notifying them of the closure.  Anybody have
> >         an idea what kind of software would be used for this
> >         application?  Is there something that runs on Linux?
> >
> >
-- 
Ron Thompson, |^|
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
"Who are are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their window?" Is 60:8