The latest update to Druid OSE version 1.0.2 has been released it has a ton of bug fixes and new features.

For more information click here:
http://forums.voiceroute.org/showpost.php?p=375&postcount=1

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Druid is different from many other IP telephony solutions you might have worked with. Below are few of the
differences that make Druid a great platform. (#druid on irc.freenode.net)

1. Extensions and phones are not the same thing. Extensions are attached or detached from an IP handset.

2. Phones are auto provisioned. You just have to plug your IP handset into a network port, and it is automatically detected by Druid using CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) or Zeroconf and will show up as a detached phone (A detached phone is a phone without an extension). Just plug and play!

3. Druid has its own tagged VLAN (Virtual Lan) and DHCP server which does not affect your existing network in anyway. All phones are automatically placed into this VLAN. Druid also supports RIP, which if supported by your router, allows the phone to access the outside network.

4. Every extension automatically has an IMAP mail account that stores your voicemail, an instant messenger (Jabber) account, a (IAX/SIP) softphone account and a web-portal that is also accessible through a mobile phone.

5. Each attached extension (one associated with an IP handset) can also login using a softphone (SIP and IAX). When the extension is called both the deskphone and the softphone are rung. You do *NOT* need to create a separate extension for your softphone. You also do not need to configure your IP handset with this information neither.

6. The web based user portal can be accessed though a normal browser or a mobile browser and is an extremely useful component of Druid. You can use it to see your voicemail, schedule routing of calls to your extension, and see your call details among other things.

7. You can bridge your calls to any mobile phone though the web-portal. When mobile bridging is enabled, any calls to your extension ring your mobile phone, deskphone and your softphone. Your mobile phone is like your desk phone; you can record, park, and transfer calls even when you are out.

8. When using IMAP, IM, Softphone, Voicemail, Web-Portal, Mobile-Portal your username is your extension number and your password is your unified extension PIN.

9. The web-interface is Ajax powered and all communication between your browser and Druid is done using light weight JSON, making it fast and responsive.

10. Druid is based on a lightweight CentOS installation, with a full graphical easy-to-use installer. Druid can be upgraded using a single command 'yum upgrade'.

We are on facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21001662768 (Group: Voiceroute Open Source) feel free to drop by and join in.

We've just posted a bunch of pictures of our lab and some of the cool hardware we have here. If any of
you guys have pictures of your IP Telephony hardware upload it to the group.

We will also be posting events and smoking the Druid pipe :) hope to see you there.

cheers,

Since our inception, we have been building a unified communications (UC) platform focused on optimizing our customer's connectivity. Overtime, we have done our best to figure out what communications means to our clients. With thousands of development man hours and some bumps along the way, we believe we have gained a clear understanding of unified communications and have translated that in our latest offering.

We have seen many proprietary products which all use the term unified communications. This has always seemed like some kind of marketing buzzword, so we thought more to listen to our customers to figure out what it really means to them. Also along this way, starting with our exposure to Asterisk, and integrating with many other open source projects like the Dojo toolkit and Dovecot IMAP server, we have seen the value that a good community brings to open source software. Open source takes many people across the world and brings them together to develop great software.

Now it hit us. Why don't we take this term unified communications and use open source to finally figure out what it really means? Let our users and developers have a say. Instant messaging, user portal, and mobile software. All these important features we have already started, and now we want the community to help take these ahead.

Many of our customers have already experienced our Plug-and-Play phone and hardware detection and autoconfiguration, extension mobility, and other UC features I mentioned before. These customers from various airlines, universities and governments opted for us over major industry brands and swear by us. Now, the open source community can experience these benefits as well.

As with all open source projects, things are never finished. Other features like complete shared-line support, faxing support and click-to-call plugin integration for Pidgin IM client, will be a part of our next update (coming very soon). For now, we ask you download our new version, and join us in making the best unified communications platform available. Welcome to Druid.