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VoIP Drupal announcement at DrupalCon Chicago 2011

Leo Burd, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Future Civic Media, wrote:

Last week at DrupalCon Chicago, we announced the 1st release of VoIP Drupal, an innovative framework that helps bridge the digital divide by bringing the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites (http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/03/voip-drupal-kicks-off-at-drupalcon072.html).

VoIP Drupal can be used to build hybrid applications combining regular touchtone phones, web, SMS, Twitter, IM and other communication tools in a variety of ways, including:
* Voice- and SMS-based Go Out to Vote campaigns
* 2-1-1 and 3-1-1 lines (information hotlines)
* Phone-based community surveys
* PTA or any meeting reminder calls
* Story recording / playback
* Group voicemail
* Geo-based call-blasts aimed at specific streets or locations
* Language classes
* Audio tours
* And much more!

Technically speaking, the goal of VoIP Drupal is to provide a common API and scripting system that interoperate with popular Internet-telephony servers (Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Tropo, Twilio, etc) dramatically reducing the learning and development costs associated with the construction of communication systems that combine voice and text technologies together.

For additional information, please check the project page (1), join the VoIP Drupal discussion group (2) and explore the demo site (3).

The VoIP Drupal platform has originally been conceived and implemented by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/).

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(1) http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal
(2) http://groups.drupal.org/voip-drupal
(3) http://www.voipdrupal.org/