Bell's Mind

The PBX isn't up again but at least we have a single conference online. We're using SIP Broker for our PSTN connectivity. It's a lot like what we used to have with Free World Dialup and Libretel several years ago. In addition to this we plan on publishing SIP URIs so that everyone can connect if they have a SIP client or a softswitch.

We'll post on the blog as we add more features. For now we only have a single conference running. To connect you need to dial an access number, then dial our network code *9098, followed by the desired internal extension. The extension for our single conference is 666 so the full code is *9098666.

Try it out and let us know if there are any bumps in the road. In particular we've noticed that +1-360 codes have trouble passing DTMF. Avoid those numbers for now and post which ones work best for you. We'll be putting our preferred DID list online as we learn the new system.

The Bell's Mind conference lives again and will get a lot more exciting soon.

We received several complaints about the login being broken and submissions not working. Things appear to work properly now so let us know ASAP if anything doesn't work. I'm chipping away at modernizing things and making the site's interface a lot less kludgy so from time to time things could break but there shouldn't be any extended outages.