Hello all,
It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the first release of the VoIP Drupal platform: http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal!
VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites.
VoIP Drupal can be used to build hybrid applications that combine regular touchtone phones, web, SMS, Twitter, IM and other communication tools in a variety of ways, including:
- Click-to-call functions
- Voice- and SMS-based Go Out to Vote campaigns
- 2-1-1 and 3-1-1 lines
- Phone-based community surveys
- PTA reminders
- Story recording / playback
- Group voicemail
- Geo-based callblasts aimed at specific streets or locations
- And much more
Technically speaking, the goal of VoIP Drupal is to provide a common API and scripting system that interoperate with popular Internet-telephony servers (Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Tropo, Twilio, etc) dramatically reducing the learning and development costs associated with the construction of communication systems that combine voice and text technologies together.
The following VoIP servers are currently supported:
- Tropo, through the voiptropo.module (available soon)
- Twilio, through the voiptwilio.module
This project is under continuous development. Discussions are taking place on the VoIP Drupal Group.
Please check the VoIP Drupal Handbook for additional information.
The VoIP Drupal platform has originally been conceived and implemented by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/).