Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:57:20 -0500
From: jays@jays.dialup.access.net

Subject: Tuesday 6 February 2001 LXNY Meeting: David Sugar, head of Bayonne, will speak on the present situation and the coming struggle

LXNY will have a general meeting Tuesday 6 February 2001.

This meeting is free and open to the public.

The meeting runs from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.  After the meeting full and
precise instructions on how to get to our traditional place of refreshment
will be given in clear.

Thanks to support of the IBM Corporation, the meeting is at their building
at 590 Madison Avenue at East 57th Street on the Island of Manhattan.
Enter the building at the corner of Madison and 57th and ask at the desk
for the floor and room number.


[note: the links are hyperlinked at sched-lxny.html ]

<blockquote
  from="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-02-03-002-21-NW-CY"
  edit-level="light">

David Sugar writes:

On the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 6, I will be speaking before LXNY to
discuss recent events and future plans for Bayonne, the telephony
application server of the GNU project (http://www.bayonne.cx), in
particular the Free Telephony Summit (22 January 2001), where leaders from
many free telephony software projects, including myself, Craig Southern
from openh323 (http://www.openh323.org), Zaphir from pre-viking
(http://www.bellworldwide.net), Kevin Lenzo from CMU sphinx
(http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx), Luan Dang from Vovida Org
(http://www.vovida.org), and several people representing the Voxeo
community site (http://community.voxeo.org) recently gathered at the
offices of Open Source Telecom to discuss the current status of,
interoperation with, and further advancement of free telephony software in
general.

In addressing LXNY, I do hope to talk further about Bayonne, where it
actually fits in the GNU project as a whole, and particularly the effort to
promote GNU Enterprise solutions, and certainly how we will work to further
support many of the other free telephony projects currently under way.  I
plan to cover Bayonne architecture and how usable applications can be
deployed, whether for SOHO, enterprise voice applications such as call
centers and voice mail, or for deploying Bayonne hosted carrier services
for the current and next generation telephone network.

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2001-01-21-004-04-PS-KN
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-10-25-009-20-PS
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-25-010-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-25-008-06-PS-SV-SW
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-21-005-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-21-001-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-18-018-04-NW-CY-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-18-011-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-16-014-20-PS
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-10-004-21-NW-BD
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-05-03-007-04-OS

</blockquote>


<blockquote
  from="http://www.softseek.com/Linux/Internet/Web_Publishing_Tools/Servers/Review_44696_index.html"
  edit-level="light">

   Bayonne is the multiple-line, "voice response" telephony server of the GNU
   project.

   The purpose of Bayonne is to provide a service daemon which can automatically
   process telephone callers on a GNU operating system in an extensible manner.

   It uses extension scripting to specify and control call flow, and is suitable
   for building applications involving "Interactive Voice Response",
   telephone-based system administration and control, and voice messaging.

   In addition to scripting, Bayonne is fully modular and can be integrated with
   many common GNU system services.

   Perl scripts and system applications can be invoked through TGI (Telephony
   Gateway Interface) offering Web integration and v-commerce solutions.

   Plug-ins can be developed to directly extend the Bayonne server and to
   introduce services not yet envisioned.

   More information:
   Bayonne Home Page
   http://bayonne.sourceforge.net/

</blockquote>

David Sugar will also present a short overview of the situation along a
front too little reported on: the telephony front in the protracted
struggle for freedom on the Net.

http://www.fsf.org
http://www.eff.org
http://cryptome.org

LXNY needs volunteers for the hard work of education and propaganda ahead
of us.  If you want to help come to this meeting.

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org


PS:  Congratulations and many many thank you!s to NYLUG and LILUG and BNL
and FreeStandards and Windowmaker and LTSP and Debian and LDP and NetBSD
and SEUL and Free Verse and all the rest of the Organizations and Members
who helped make the Pavilion of ORGs the center of the Free Software Expo
just now held at The Javits!