November SLUG Monthly Meeting

G'day all!

== November SLUG Monthly Meeting ==

When: 
    Friday, 24th November, 2006
Where:
    Level 13, IBM Building, 601 Pacific Highway, St. Leonards

SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open
to the general public, and free of charge.

This month's meeting will be at the IBM building, Level 13, 601 Pacific 
Highway, St. Leonards.

We ask that people arrive 20 minutes early so we can all get into the 
building and start on time.

A committee member will also be standing outside the building to meet,
greet, and provide directions to the venue.

= Talks =

General Talk: John Ferlito - VoIP

John will give a broad overview of VoIP including what codecs people
should use, hardware (Phones, ATAs, ISDN and PSTN cards, Mobile Pods),
what VoIP providers offer, Asterisk and what it can do.

John will be using Beagle Internet IVR and distributed VoIP Call Centre
as a case study.

Technical Talk: Charles Grey - Darbat

Darwin is an open-source subset of Apple's Mac OS X. The Darwin kernel
presents a POSIX interface, but is internally an interesting mix of BSD
and Mach kernels and the modular device framework, I/O Kit. The kernel
boasts modern features such as device hot-plug, power management, 64-bit
and soft real-time support.

L4/Darwin (AKA darbat) is a joint project between the Embedded,
Real-Time and Operating Systems group at National ICT Australia and the
School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW. The L4/Darwin
project aims to re-factor the monolithic Darwin operating system into a
set of components running on top of the L4 microkernel. By running the
Darwin kernel as user processes, L4/Darwin aims to provide improved
flexibility, robustness and peformance while preserving
binary compatability with native Darwin and Mac OS X.

This talk covers details of Darwin kernel internals and our experiences
porting it to the L4 microkernel. It will also cover experiments and
results so far, as well as future plans.

SLUGlets Talk: Jon Teh - Asterisk

Following on from John Ferlito's talk, Jon Teh will be diving into
Asterisk: what is is and what it can do, including interfacing with
various hardware and software communications methods. Telephony in
general will be covered briefly to give the audience a suitable context
for the demonstration of Asterisk. A primer to the Asterisk dialplan,
the heart of any Asterisk system will be given, and asterisk
configuration will be demonstrated practically with a live Asterisk
server and telephones. Some of the more advanced features will be
mentioned, along with possibilities about where people can go from there
with their own setups. Participants will be inspired by Asterisk's
flexibility and the possibilities it can allow for! 

== Schedule ==

  * 6:30pm: Open Doors
  * 6.45pm: The Usual Suspects
  * 7:00pm: General Talk: John Ferlito - VoIP
  * 8:20pm: Technical Talk: Charles Grey - Darbat
  * 8:20pm: SLUGlets talk: Jon Teh - Asterisk
  * 9:20pm: Dinner: TBA on the night

Hope to see you there!

Lindsay

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