On Jan 28, 2008 12:48 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/01/2008, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
Our IT manager, Rob Halsell, came over to San Francisco this weekend to set up the phones in the new Wikimedia Foundation offices. We're switching to an open source telephony solution based on Asterisk. Obviously, every phone system needs "on hold" music.
There's nothing obvious about that unless your intention is to annoy people. A lot of this elevator music makes me want to hang up. The upbeat stuff is the worst. If people must endure this kind of torture make it low volume Gregorian Chant or meditation music.
The Free Software Song is the obvious choice.
Nah, RFA song is fine. It will go great with the replacement of the foundation logo with Wikipetan.
Since the Free Software Song is based on a Bulgarian folk song ([[Sadi Moma]]) it might be perceived as too educational by the majority of the (English speaking) callers. Next you'll be suggesting that we take the lead paragraphs from Spoken Wikipedia articles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia) and adding "To learn more about X see visit Wikipedia"... What do you think we are? An encyclopedia?
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