as you may have noticed, the payphone outside omni has been vandalized. the handset is broken. also, it does not make phone calls and the voice menu doesn't tell you anything. cel and I are changing that. we are going to add the ability to dial out to phone numbers in the USA for free. (no incoming calls though) and also add a proper voice prompt menu listing the collectives in Omni so that people can actually use the phone to call in. later we will add the ability for people answering the phone inside the omni to press a button to buzz the door open when someone calls them, and we'll add more phones to places besides just sudoroom and CCL. I believe part of the reason that the payphone was vandalized is because people wanted to make calls and the phone didn't work, so they smashed it. Who knows. Anyway i don't think Omni should shy away from the opportunity to provide something useful like that, seeing as we've already installed a payphone. -jake _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss

what paging system On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, robb wrote: great! > while you're digging in to it & if it's convenient, > can you enable the paging system to work from within the building but not > from without? > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > > as you may have noticed, the payphone outside omni has been vandalized. >> the >> handset is broken. also, it does not make phone calls and the voice menu >> doesn't tell you anything. >> >> cel and I are changing that. we are going to add the ability to dial out >> to >> phone numbers in the USA for free. (no incoming calls though) and also >> add >> a >> proper voice prompt menu listing the collectives in Omni so that people >> can >> actually use the phone to call in. >> >> later we will add the ability for people answering the phone inside the >> omni to >> press a button to buzz the door open when someone calls them, and we'll >> add >> more phones to places besides just sudoroom and CCL. >> >> I believe part of the reason that the payphone was vandalized is because >> people >> wanted to make calls and the phone didn't work, so they smashed it. Who >> knows. >> Anyway i don't think Omni should shy away from the opportunity to provide >> something useful like that, seeing as we've already installed a payphone. >> >> -jake >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >

hi all, dial-out from the phones works now, including from the payphone. i created an account on callwithus.com for the outgoing calls, and put $1 on it, which is enough for 1 hour 45 minutes of calls. if you would like the credentials for this account, let me know. you can check the balance by dialing *0 from an omni phone.

i taped back the handset together - it should probably be fixed in a more durable way though.