FreePBX (Asterisk) Email Based Conferencing System
FreePBX is a feature rich administration GUI for Asterisk and the conferencing module is great for static conference rooms. How about dynamically creating conference rooms by email?
Faced with creating a conferencing system for ~3,000 users, using static conference rooms was not going to work so I had to develop a small system to generate rooms on demand.
The simplest method for a user to create (or book) a conference room would be to send a blank email to a dedicated conferencing email address. So I developed a Python script that will login to an IMAP enabled mailbox to check for new emails, create conference rooms and email the sender back with the details.
Conferencing Script:
Edit conferences.conf and update the configuration to suit your needs and the create a cron job to run the script once a minute.