Among the participants Tim @steely_glint, Neil from IdeaSIP, Karl @karlfife, Michael @mjgraves and Graves on SoHo VoIP, David Frankel from ZipDX who furnish our great wideband conference facilities, Dave @DaveMichels from Pin Drop Soup, Pascal from Media5.

Welcome to a very old friend of mine, Bob from Future Video. The VUC encourages new people to be a part of our weekly talks. Please join us so you can chime in, ask questions and generally have a great time.

Tim Panton reports in via satellite from Nuie where they were installing an open mobile phone system.
Voipathon plans world domination with a 24 hour live Internet conference.
Randal L. Schwartz chats with us about language choices, perl, python, FORTH, PHP, Squeak Smalltalk.
“Violent” arguments about port knocking and how to protect SSH by using less obvious ports, etc.

Karl Fife struts his Jabra stuff. The group talked about cordless headsets, wideband and performance of same.

From the thread of the same name on the asterisk-users mailing list, why is the Morse code channel still included in Asterisk, is Morse ever used? List to this riveting discussion to learn about the rivets that hold these things together.

The contest consisted of finding the movie whose soundtrack featured the VoIP-appropriate song “Calling You”. Karl was first to type  “Bagdad Cafe” in our IRC channel #voip-users-conference on Freenode.net. The song is a beautiful, haunting piece of music and I would like to use an excerpt from time to time in our opening or closing theme.

Thanks again to Tony Stankus, Product Manager of Emerging Technologies Gigaset Communications USA, LLC for providing this phone as a prize and for being a great guest. I am counting on Tony to come back and tell us when the phone features evolve, which they do from time to time.

Early on, we spoke about the lack of a mute button on the S675IP, and lo and behold, they added one to firmware, which is easy to update. The phone shows a message when new firmware is ready, and asks if you want to update. See the original post for more articles on these phones.