Automation: Organise your life inexpensively with FOSS - showcase / primer

What do you get when you mix, voip, sms, calDAV together with FOSS creativity?
Inexpensive ways of automating the administration of our home & work lives.

For this demonstration we'll be seeing Asterisk, SMPP enabled gateways, open source calendars and other technological building blocks connected together in weird and wonderful ways to facilitate the most elegant hands off approach to organising our lives and businesses.

Philosophy of automation:
*Face to face communication is most definitely the best hands down, but what you want to do is minimise the uncomfortable/boring human to human interactions, while facilitating a higher quality and greater number of human-human interations.
*Technology is meant to simplify life, if this doesn't happen taking into account all the overheads, then there is a problem and there needs to be a re-think.

VOIP: The future; now.
*Overview
*Providers
*Trunks
*Extensions
*Hardware
*Inward Route setup
*Outward Routes setup
*Direct Inward System Access (DISA)
*Callback
*Conference
*Custom Applications
*Text to speech
*AGI Scripting

SMS/text Messaging.
*Selecting SMS gateways / hardware choices
*SMPP and other protocols
*Programming for SMS applications

Calendars
*CalDAV overview
*Google Calendar
*Programming and API's for Calendar applications

Creating a custom solution:
*In this section we will take the technologies we have covered so far and create a fun and interactive business case solution from the ground up, we will demonstrate it live, and provide some information for further learning.

All delegates attending this session must bring and ensure:

Have your phones at the talk for an interactive demonstration.