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Asterisk-Users
This is where most Asterisk users hang out. This list generates several hundred
messages per day and has over ten thousand subscribers. While you can go here
for help, you are expected to have done some reading on your own before you post
a query.
Asterisk Wiki Sites
The Asterisk Wiki (which exists in large part due to the tireless efforts of James
Thompson—thanks James!) is a source of much enlightenment and confusion. Another
important resource is the community-maintained repository of VoIP knowledge at http:
//www.voip-info.org, which contains a truly inspiring cornucopia of fascinating, infor-
mative, and frequently contradictory information about many subjects, just one of
which is Asterisk. Since Asterisk documentation forms by far the bulk of the informa-
tion on this website,
*
and it probably contains more Asterisk knowledge than all other
sources put together (with the exception of the mailing list archives), it is a popular
place to go for Asterisk knowledge.
An important new wiki project is the official Asterisk Wiki, found at http://wiki.asterisk
.org. While not yet as full of content as voip-info.org, this wiki will be more formally
supported and is therefore more likely to contain information that is kept current and
accurate.
The IRC Channels
The Asterisk community maintains Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels on irc.free-
node.net. The two most active channels are #asterisk and #asterisk-dev.
†
To cut down
on spam-bot intrusions, both of these channels now require registration to join.
‡
Asterisk User Groups
Over the past decade, in many cites around the world, lonely Asterisk users began to
realize that there were other like-minded people in their towns. Asterisk User Groups
(AUGs) began to spring up all over the place. While these groups don’t have any official
affiliation with each other, they generally link to one anothers’ websites and welcome
members from anywhere. Type “Asterisk User Group” into Google to track down one
in your area.
* More than 30%, at last count.
† The #asterisk-dev channel is for the discussion of changes to the underlying code base of Asterisk and is also
not second-tier support. Discussions related to programming external applications that interface with
Asterisk via AGI or AMI are meant to be in #asterisk.
‡ To register, run /msg nickserv help when you connect to the service via your favorite IRC client.
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