Open Source VOIP Apps and Resources

A very good compilation of Open Source VOIP Apps and Resources by Anand Dayal:
http://ananddayal.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-source-voip-apps-resources.html

Interesting VOIP Blogs

Here are a list of some interesting VOIP blogs and other websites you might be interested in.

1. http://voipguides.blogspot.com/
2. http://woip.blogspot.com/
3. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
4. http://voip-tech.blogspot.com/
5. http://andyabramson.blogs.com/
6. http://solokay.blogspot.com/
7. http://gtalk2voip.blogspot.com/
8. http://voipandenum.blogspot.com/
9. http://asteriskvoip.blogspot.com/
10. http://pulverblog.pulver.com/

Some more interesting sites
11. http://www.voip-news.com/
12. http://www.mbayair.org/
13. http://www.voip-news.co.uk/
14. http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/
15. http://www.fiercevoip.com/
16. http://www.iptelephony.org/
17. http://www.tech-faq.com/blog
18. http://www.voipnow.org/
19. http://www.tmcnet.com/voip
20. http://www.voip-sol.com/

Networking For Social Causes

A recent article named "Tragedies and a public triumph" in a popular daily (The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/05/11/stories/2008051150080400.htm) delved into the rare diseases (like Leukemia) affecting the multi-stratified South-Asian community (especially Indians). The article focussed on the struggles of the people of South Asian descent running helter-skelter for finding appropriate donors (for bone marrow) from the same diaspora.

The miniscule percentage (1.4 %) of registered donors from South-Asian community is one part of the problem. A more important point was that when the hour to do the needful arrived, most of them backed off leaving the hapless patients (and their families) in the lurch. This may be because of our background and the society that most of us were brought up in where "I dont care until the meteor hits me" attitude prevails. Proactive volunteers may be very less also due to lack of proper understanding (although tons of information exists) regarding the donations (organ and other) and the quality of life thereafter.

It was very satisfying to know that some of the technologies where people like me worked were and are being used for networking for social causes. Especially Streamlined videos, podcasts, public service announcements, chain e-mails, blogging, Facebook, YouTube, etc are being used by the volunteers (Team Vinay and Team Sameer).

(Complete article - http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/05/11/stories/2008051150080400.htm).