VoIP Drupal Hackaton at the MIT Media Lab (Saturday, Nov. 19)

(Registration: http://tinyurl.com/vd-hackaton)

On Saturday, November 19, we are organizing an open Hackaton to provide Drupalistas with an opportunity to get their hands dirty with VoIP Drupal and push the limits of the platform.

VoIP Drupal (http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal/) is an innovative open source framework that makes it easy to build Drupal websites that literally pick-up the phone, make calls, record messages, broadcast audio, and more. By enabling the creation of hybrid systems that combine web, SMS, email, and touch tone phone technologies together, VoIP Drupal takes “community plumbing” into a new dimension, facilitating the implementation of community outreach initiatives, phone-based polls, voice menus, audio blogs, click-to-call systems, and much more. Features include:
* Common API that facilitates interaction with different Internet-telephony providers such as Twilio, Tropo and Plivo (FreeSWITCH)
* Simple dialplan scripting language for the creation of interactive phone calls with voice menus, conference calls, audio recording and more
* Sample code and sandbox that help people explore and play with the different aspects of the platform (http://voipdrupal.org/)
* An already-existing suite of modules that extends and builds upon VoIP Drupal capabilities (http://drupal.org/node/1078790)

The goal of the event is to contribute to the development and adoption of VoIP Drupal. For the past year, VoIP Drupal has been under intense construction by the MIT Center for Civic Media team. Now it is time to bring VoIP Drupal to version 1.0, demonstrate what it can do, and build a strong and supportive community around it. VoIP Drupal can extend Drupal in very interesting ways. Let's make sure the platform can live up to its potential!

When and where

Saturday, November 19, 2011 at the MIT Media Lab (http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14)
noon - 6pm
Room: (to be confirmed)

Agenda

noon - 1:00 :: lunch and introduction
1:00 - 1:30 :: make a work plan
1:30 - 5:30 :: work on VoIP Drupal-related project
5:30 - 6:00 :: meet up to discuss what we did

Who should come?

We invite you to help us implement cool tools that extend Drupal beyond the web. We need lots of help.

We are particularly excited about:
* Drupalistas interested in creating Drupal products, as a community
* Technical folks who could help us test and document the API
* Marketing and outreach folks to help us strategize about how to get more community members involved

Registration

Please come if you can. In order to plan for the event and order an appropriate amount of food, we would appreciate if you could register at http://tinyurl.com/vd-hackaton

About us

VoIP Drupal is an initiative of the MIT Center for Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/). For additional information, please contact Leo Burd (leoburd AT media.mit.edu).