Hi,

Saw the following in an article online:

One Asterisk programmer at the show used the platform to create a
service to connect people displaced by Hurricane Katrina with friends
and family. The service, called Contact Loved Ones, lets evacuees
punch in a home number where they're no longer located and record a
message. Acquaintances who dial in and enter the number will be played
that message and can leave their own.

Yaacov Menken, one of several Princeton University alumni who
collaborated on the service, said doing that with a traditional phone
system would have cost tens of thousands of dollars.

"An open source (phone system) allowed small people in this industry
to do something large," said Menken, who heads Capalon Internet
Solutions in Baltimore.

End of excerpt from http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05264/575226.stm

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