Asterisk Community Interaction

Steve Murphy Software Developer, Digium, Inc. murf@digium.com

The Asterisk Community

People interested in, working with, providing services or products based around, etc. etc, are all members of the 'community' Mailing Lists IRC Meetings Conferences Web sites

Web Sites

http://asterisk.org is a good starting point!

Mailing Lists

Pick your favorites: Asterisk-users asterisk-dev asterisk-biz asterisk-bugs asterisk-commits asterisk-doc asterisk-gui asterisk-i18n

Asterisk-video asterisknow asteriskembedded asterisk-BSD asterisk-announce *-commits See: http://asterisk.org /support/mailinglists

IRC

Freenode: #asterisk #asterisk-dev #asterisk-bugs #asteriskcommits #asterisk-doc ...and so on!

irc.freenode.net Port 6667

Forums

Asterisk.org supplies some Forums: See http://forums.digium.com/

Trolling

Don't Feed the Trolls

Top Posting

For some reason, a lot of people don't like Top Posting. And will tell you so.

Flame Wars

Don't. Please!

Wrong Channel/Group/Forum

Don't yell at people, redirect them.

Newbies

Newbies are the future-- Do unto others.... Be kind! What damage will it do?

No Reply

Patience. Try it again, more details. Some people don't look at their screens for an hour or two at a time. Let it stew.