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Question: can participants call ''anywhere'', or do we limit the calls to places with a certain price threshold?
 
Question: can participants call ''anywhere'', or do we limit the calls to places with a certain price threshold?
  
There are 1440 minutes in a day.
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There are 1440 minutes in a day.  Maximum exposure at the US/Canada rate would be $43.20/day; a series of 5-minute INMARSAT calls would cost about $7000 a day.
  
 
== Rights ==
 
== Rights ==
  
 
Do we need to know more about the callers to have them consent to recording and podcast -- their name?  their age?
 
Do we need to know more about the callers to have them consent to recording and podcast -- their name?  their age?

Revision as of 12:32, 24 June 2005

Take a solidly built regular old telephone, mount it on a post (or in some sort of "phone booth" like thing) outside the office, with a sign that says "Call Anywhere for Free".

Phone is connected to our Asterisk service, and when picked up plays a recorded message:

"You can use this phone to make 5 minute calls to anywhere in the world. But we're going to record both ends of the call and make it available over the Internet for anyone to listen to. Think of this as public art, where you're the paint. If you agree to have your conversation recorded and made available freely on the Internet, press 1 to proceed."

Callers proceeding then get a dial tone that lets them make a call, via voice-over-IP, to anywhere in the world. The Asterisk server records the calls, converts the audio to MP3, and make available on the web, both on a website and as a "podcast feed."

Costs

The maximum VoicePulse Connect voice-over-IP rate for calls is $4.83/minute US for calls to "INMARSAT - Atlantic West". Price per minute goes down from there to $0.03/minute US for calls within Canada and the U.S.

Question: can participants call anywhere, or do we limit the calls to places with a certain price threshold?

There are 1440 minutes in a day. Maximum exposure at the US/Canada rate would be $43.20/day; a series of 5-minute INMARSAT calls would cost about $7000 a day.

Rights

Do we need to know more about the callers to have them consent to recording and podcast -- their name? their age?