Santa's Wish List for PIAF

[darmock]

Here is a list of some specific hardware we are currently looking for to go in the PIAF lab.

Cisco

Looking for 1 model of each current mainline phones that are in current use. We can't help with problems if we dont have samples of these. Since we dont have a cisco contract we would need these phones to have the current sip firmware flashed on them. While it would be nice for someone to accidentally drop in a copy of a few versions of the firmware for whatever phones they send us we cant actually ask for this......... While we have POE it would be nice to have some of them come with some power adapters. We have a number of SPA phones and adapters already however but none of the 79XX series anymore. Old donations all finally died and went to a better place.

PolyCom

We have a couple of 501's in the lab some other models would be handy to have

Aastra

We currently have a couple of 57i but a couple of other lower end modles would also be handy

Snom

Have none of these in the lab at all. Not sure how popular they are.

Yealink

Have a couple of these already

Others

Have one gigaset portable donate which works awesome! Already have a number of grandstreams and some of the 1535 vid phones. Open to suggestions.


Again these are permanent donations without any expectation of support or we will work for free or provide unlimited tech support. It is all based on the premise we cant help if we dont have the hardware to do so.

Luckily from previous donations we are up to date on computers! Thanks to all

Tom

 

[phonebuff]

Tom,

I can't give you my "spares" as I have many in service and need the spares here for when Murphy shows up. But I am more than willing to work with you testing anything you want and I do maintain a Smartnet contract for Firmware..

I will also check with my supplier and see if I can work out something to get you three of the primaries. A 7940, 7960 and a 7970 probably Global models.

Phonebuff --

 

[darmock]

I understand. The real problem is we need them "here" at the lab to do stuff. Remote development with phones does not work very well. Once a solution gets to beta that is a different story.

It seems people are having problems with 7941/7961/7971 versions out there.

Ahh the wonders of smartnet!

Thanks

Tom

 

[blanchae]

I just received a donation of Cisco phones 79x1s last month that now overstocks my lab - I'll check and see what I can spare.

 

[darmock]

Most appreciated! If the shipping wont kill you from Calgary.


Thanks

Tom

(I do love SAIT my old alma mater)

 

[phonebuff]

Good Morning all,

I have a quote of almost $800.00 to get five Cisco phones for Tom's lab. One each 7940G, 7941G, 7960G, 7961G, 7970G.

Unfortunately this is more than the budget will allow. I am willing to seed a fund with $200.00 but would need help covering the rest of the bill..

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[darmock]

Wow.... big bucks... thanks for the effort however. Hopefully some others will chime in although it is a bad time of the year.

Tom

 

[dghundt]

I have an Aastra 55i gathering dust. Can't stand it compared to my Snom's.
I love my Snom's but have none to spare.

You can pm me your mailing address.

 

[blanchae]

I have the following Cisco phones to donate:

1x 7912G (new in unopened box!)
1x 7941
1x 7960
1x 7961
1x 7970

Send me the shipping address and I'll try to get them out before Christmas. Unfortunately, no power bricks.

 

[darmock]

Thanks guys I have sent you PM with my address thanks to one and all.


Tom

 

[euser4life]

Hi Tom,

I sent you a PM with a tracking number. I meant to send some things to you back in July. On it's way is a Aastra 6731i, Cisco 7941 with sip image, and Polycom 320.

Thanks for all you guys do !!!

Will

 

[fizadmin]

I am morally and ethically opposed to donating money when I know it will benefit Cisco.

Since most 7961 or 7971 phones are no longer bought directly from Cisco, but usually from eBay via some surplus brokers that took them off the hands of bankrupt banks or real estate investors, it's highly doubtful that any of such purchased phones would benefit cisco.

As for the donation, I'm wrapping up a cisco (7961) phone for Tom by this weekend, to contribute to the cause.

 

[darmock]

Well I feel like a bit of a :shitb:heel. The phone I promised is not a 6731i but is actually a reflashed Packet8 55i and when I plugged it in to test, the LCD is all messed up. It looks like it is toast.

Humblest apologies for Grinching you.

No worries it's all good

 

[dghundt]

Shipped my Aastra 55i to Tom. It was feeling lonely, and I hope Tom makes it feel important again!

Thank you to Tom, Ward, the developers, the beta testers, and everyone else that does anything good for PBXIAF!

 

[darmock]

Thanks to one and all! Still waiting for a few phones but we seem to be in good shape.

Next project (Just finished incredible fax 2 and just finishing up incredible pbx 3.0) is this

http://www.openvox.cn/products/gsm-cards/g400p.html#um


GSM gateway. I have managed to obtain a shiny new one courtesy of Openvox but I am looking for a donation of an active cellular sim card. I need something that can be used for testing and the development of an automated install program along with a user manual. Unfortunately our cell provider does not use GSM cards. We need something to use for a couple of months on the GSM service. A prepaid one would be great. We wont be calling Afghanistan with it!

I have had a number of request for this type of hardware so if you are interested perhaps you can pony up a SIM card for testing. The heavy lifting with the donation of the GSM card itself is already done.

I am thinking this would make a great little card to dump in a 12vdc mobile computer with 4 sim cards. You could then run it in a mobile command post using cell phone trunks no need for bluetooth. Great for some type of emergency operations.


Tom

 

[darmock]

Bump

Still look for a gsm sim card for testing. Sorry money is tight so we really need an active sim card donated so we can test and ensure this works correctly with PIAF and write a custom install module.

Tom

 

[da1Bear]

Bump

Still look for a gsm sim card for testing. Sorry money is tight so we really need an active sim card donated so we can test and ensure this works correctly with PIAF and write a custom install module.

Tom

Would an AT&T prepaid sim work? They are $5.95 online, but the ones for prepaid are only available in the stores (the agent said she thought they were the same price).

How much air time would you need?

Update: T-Mobile has them online for $2.99@ including 10 minutes airtime on each. I'll spring for a couple! PM me. Maybe some others could offer airtime refill cards?

 

[da1Bear]

Ok, Two T-mobile prepaid sim cards on the way

But Still need two $30 airtime cards for this project. That should be enough minutes and enough time before they expire to allow development.
Get them here, and PM darmock for shipping info.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

 

[Hyksos]

Hi,

I'm not saying this is my greatest opportunity to donate since I doubt a card(the openvox) like that would ever be needed by someone like me, we never know...

But just so that Tom can work on something he would like to work And to benefit the community, anything's good no?

But I could donate (I like contribute) for the new backup modules let say.

My point is that following the links and everything, I just can't be one of their customers since I'm canadian and T-mobile did not think a canadian would ever want to get a sim card and some time before crossing down for a trip (for example).

My additional point is that maybe I would like to help and others would too but without the hassle of directly becoming a T-Mobile customer by purchasing something on their site and getting it shipped to somebody else. (In my case I just can't).
Or maybe for a project like that 30$ is too much if I don't think I'll ever use that.

To the point son!

Is there a way we can give something, maybe even letting me choose how much, or something with increments: 5,10,15,20,25,30,etc and up to huge amounts
So you can use it to do that and or other stuff. Maybe raising per projects and waiting for goals to be achieved.

I've seen open source projects with community bounty kind of things.
You check a list of projects or subprojects, the needed or desired amount is displayed and people select for what and how much they want to donate.

Could be simpler of course just a page where I can donate increments or custom donate a certain amount.

Could more complicated too. A page with projects and a way for people to say how much they would give, so that it can determined before hand if enough money could be collected before doing it. Assessing the contributionness(demand) of subprojects.

Crowd funding is hot these days and I think asking a couple dollars from a lot of people who can click somewhere and support or say they would support if the goal is reached could be a great way to fund projects people want to see.

I'll stop here since you probably have an opinion on this, I haven't invented crowd funding and I'm sure you know about it. Maybe you like it just the way it is now.

And just so you know I have no agenda here, I'm just discussing away and maybe I'm wasting your time because your convinced we're all cheap basta** anyway

 

[wardmundy]

Good suggestions. Thanks. And here you go...