Have you ever wanted to add an additional feature to your Elastix but you do not know how to do it? Thanks to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it that created a new module that allows you to create new modules now it is really easy to extend Elastix functionality. To try it out all you need to do is download it and installed throw “module load” in the Elastix web interface.

Once you installed the Developer module, a new module can be created throw the web interface by selecting a name for it, the fields that it should have and in witch menu should it be accessible. Once you do this, then there is going to be a directory tree under /var/www/html/modules/module_id that uses the MVC2 architecture with the needed files for the module ready for you to program the logic.

This module is in version 1.0 beta2 and is compatible with any Elastix equal or newer to version 1.2. To give you a better support we just created a new forum and we are going to contribute with documentation for the use of this module in the wiki.

This month we would like to make public our appreciation to Bob Fryer for his excellent contributions to our community, that among others we would like to mention the following:

• He has contributed several chapters of the book "Elastix Without Tears"
• Excellent support for testing the beta versions of Elastix. You can see him in action testing Elastix 1.4 Beta
• The creation of the website Elastixconnection.com that tomarrow would cam back online with great surprises. 
• Promotes the Elastix project in Australia.
• Is one of the members of our community that gives great support to others.

Saleh is one of the oldest active members of the Elastix community and since then he had been a great support for our community. Probably a lot of us some receive help from Saleh when we had a problem and because of that right now Saleh is the user with the greatest karma in our forums . The Elastix project has benefited from Saleh contribution and that is why we are making this recognition as community member of the month.

Congratulation Saleh and keep up the great job.

Edgar Landivar promoter and creator of the Elastix project has published online the beta version of the book “Unified Communications with Elastix” with the free license GNU FDL. This book is written for people without any experience on voip, Linux or Elastix. After reading this book you would be ready to implelment and administrate systems base on Elastix.

We use a free licence because we believe community support is important to keep this book updated. This books is written in Spanish and we need help to translated it to other languages; specially to Enlgish that is a common language among people on this community. Help is needed to fix errors on the book and to propose new articles to make this book as a good as posible for new and experience users of Elastix.

Today Elastix in the only Asterisk base distribution that has two books written that you can download from the Internet form free. Most of you already know the first one “Elastix Without Tears” written by Ben Sharif

Update: Now you can buy print copies of "Unified Communications with Elastix" conline thanks to lulu.com. Buying a print copy of the book help us to support the elastix project.

Dear community,

If you are an user of Elastix you may want Elastix to have the best documentation possible. Elastix Without Tears written by Ben Sharif does a great job and is must read it if you want to have successful installations of Elastix, but it does not cover everything you can do with Elastix.

Elastix has a wiki with several how-tos, user manual, developer manual and several other useful documentation. Help is needed from the community to have this documentation up to date. A wiki is a great tool to maintain documentation because it could be edited by anyone so those who wants to contribute are welcome to do it. Nothing is erase on a wiki so you could always go back to a previous version of an specific article. Our wiki works very similar to the way Wikipedia does.

Update the documentation: There are several articles that were wrote long time ago and need to be updated. Just edit those articles and make them work with Elastix latest version. If you get to a how to that does not work and don't know how to fix it please edit the article and add a note explaining the error to help the community fix it.

Translate documentation to your language: Elastix is translated to 21 languages and documentation should get close to this number. The wiki is organized to be translated and we have some articles en Spanish, Greek, Persian and Italian.

Keep track of the wiki changes: 99% of people writing on the wiki are doing by people who wants to help. There is that 1% that would do negative changes to the wiki. Our wiki has two easy ways to track changes through  the recent changes link or by rss feeds . If some one does something bad to the wiki we could fix it just by restoring a previous version of the article.

Learn the Syntax: Elastix wiki uses Dokuwiki that has an easy syntax that could be learn throw this article . Learning how to use the documentation is helpful to have an easy to read documentation.

About wiki documentation license: All the wiki documentation you would contribute would be license under the  GNU Free Documentation License that is something pretty similar to the GPL but for documentation. The idea is to have free documentation so that everyone can benefit from it.

Dear community help us improve Elastix projects and have a great documentation.