[Local-chapters] The next step

[John Smith]

2010/1/27 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>:
> Of course. You can sign up for free voip service.
>
> these open source projects have free servers:
>
> Ekiga.net
> fedoraproject.org
>
> there are others, we could setup our own server as well for OSM.

You missed the point completely, you don't need an open source
service, you can use asterisk or other open source software to
generate voip calls to normal phones at greatly reduced rates over
normal phone calls, this would be useful no doubt for the person that
mentioned their internet connection isn't suitable for even skype...