Set up a replacement for skype telephone service

Reading about options

• http://nerdvittles.com/?p=5671

A skype plugin for asterisk

• exploring yate

http://yateclient.yate.ro/

• asterisk docs

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+AsteriskNOW

• need to read this walkthrough for asterisk on raspberrypi

http://meshedinsights.com/2014/01/28/pibx/

experiment with PBX in a flash vm

• http://pbxinaflash.net/

neat! there is a doc on how to run asterisk on your raspberry pi

• http://nerdvittles.com/?p=10151

I really am motivated to move on this project now that Microsoft is getting more aggressive about retiring old Linux clients and breaking backward compatibility. Our old skype phones are acting lamer and lamer all the time with bad connections, voice mail failing to pick up, etc.