Asterisk India

[VaibhaV Sharma]

Hello,
I recently started the Asterisk-India user group and thought that a few 
"Linux Chix" from India might be interested in joining.

The mailing list is here - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asterisk-india

Website (useless as of now) - http://asterisk.org.in OR http://iax.in

What is Asterisk?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_PBX

*Asterisk* is a free software 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software> / open-source software 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software> implementation of a 
telephone private branch exchange 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_branch_exchange> (PBX). Like any 
PBX, it allows a number of attached telephones 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone> to make calls to one another, 
and to connect to other telephone services including the PSTN 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSTN>. "Its name comes from the asterisk 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk> symbol, *, which in Unix 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix> (including Linux 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>) and DOS 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS> environments represents a wildcard, 
matching any filename." [1] <http://www.digium.com/handbook-draft.pdf>

Asterisk is released under a free software license 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_license>: the GNU General 
Public License <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License> 
(GPL). Mark Spencer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Spencer> of 
Digium <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digium> originally created Asterisk 
and remains its primary maintainer; dozens of other programmers have 
contributed features and functionality and have reported bugs. 
Originally designed for the Linux <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux> 
operating system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system>, 
Asterisk now also runs on OpenBSD 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD>, FreeBSD 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>, Mac OS X 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X>, Sun Solaris 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Operating_Environment>, and 
Microsoft Windows <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows>, 
although as the "native" platform, Linux is the best-supported of these.


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VaibhaV
http://vsharma.net