Have you tried contacting Microsoft? Depending on the situation, you might be able to get very low prices or even free (yes, as in cost) licenses for your desktops. Microsoft can be very generous with non-profit and aid organizations.
Just from a practical standpoint, that might be easier since it'll be no retraining or loss/change of functionality. -Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Achilleus Papadopoulos Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Need HELP to put * in use for good cause Dear all, I volunteer for a non profit organization that provides support and crisis counseling to troubled youth, dealing with matters such as alcohol/substance abuse, sexual abuse/harassment, domestic violence, etc. Being the most computer literate in our group of volunteers Im acting as sort of network administrator. Our office is currently equipped with donated HW running various versions of Windoze in a peer to peer network configuration (10 PCs) and an old four-line Panasonic analog PBX (24 extensions). The users of this equipment are counselors that are arranged in 3 shifts of 10 people each, since we operate 24/7/365. The op originally intended to act as a person to person thing but weve increasingly used phone and email as the majority of our cases wish to remain anonymous. Our technical infrastructure is starting to fail our purpose because we cannot tend to the call load volume. Callers get the busy tone a lot or calls are dropped. Our budget is really limited as it currently only comes from donations so we decided to go Open Source to avoid licensing in a major system overhaul were planning, thus found Asterisk! What we are planning is to move the PCs to a Linux/KDE/Evolution environment. Evolution was the PIM preferred because of the similarity to MS Outlook which the counselors are currently using (unlicensed/illegal copies) but we encountered a problem: Over time we have amassed a large database of contacts that users share with LDAP/Outlook and when they perform a contact lookup they can easily call the contact trough Outlook with its built in dialer as every phone is connected to a modem. Moreover, with the Journal enabled the users have a record of the phone calls made to every contact. How can we implement the same or similar TAPI functionality with Ximian Evolution, LDAP, SIP phones and Asterisk? I searched the wiki and mail lists and could not find a definitive way of doing this. Can any one please help me with this? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
