asterisk users - May 2004 - Astricon 2004 - the developer's meeting ** CALL FOR PAPERS

During Astricon 2004, we'll have the first Asterisk developer's meeting.

The Asterisk developer's meeting is a one day meeting with discussions,
brainstorms and tests.

For each session, we need a white paper produced that outlines the topic to be
discussed.
If controversial, several whitepapers on the same topic will be contributed.
This is a list of suggested topics - please feel free to add topics. Topics will
be jointly
reviewed by the Asterisk.org bug marshals and Digium developers.

Please observe that this meeting will be held in a very professional way, with a
schedule
and a painful chairman that will make the meeting stay in order. We will not
solve every
topic, but will be able to see pros, cons and discuss ways forward, maybe
initiate some
work.

This is just a list of ideas - PLEASE feel free to suggest your own.

     * Asterisk roadmap - after 1.x (Digium)
     * Channel specific discussions
           o SIP, SRTP and TCP/TLS
	  o The new H.323 architecture
     * Configuration architectures
           o Dynamic and static data - how to separate
           o res_config and others
     * A common Authentication architecture
     * Extension and peer/user/friend configs
     * AGI and alternatives
     * Manager API development
     * Multiprotocol presence and messaging architecture for Asterisk
     * Documentation - the Wiki and the Doc project
     * Sexy things done with Asterisk - Bluetooth presence and others
       (showcase, including Mark's Wifiaxy )
     * Voice: Vxml, Speech recognition and TTS modules
     * Instant messaging (Jabber, SIMPLE and IAX)

This is not an educational forum for beginners. It is planned for active
Asterisk
developer's and contributors. A conference call number will, if possible,
be available for those wishing to listen.

HOW TO SUBMIT A WHITE PAPER
* Send your white paper to info@astricon.net no later than june 15th
* If accepted, we will schedule it for the dev meeting and work with it
* All white papers is released to the community. There should be no
   NDA's or other clauses attached to your paper. If there are any
   limitations on how we can use the document or the ideas or solutions
   based on the paper, it will not be considered for submission to the
   conference.
* Attach all your contact data - Name, Adress, Phone, E-mail
   so we can contact you
* All white papers will be published in a central repository,
   regardless if they are accepted as a basis for this first meeting
   or not.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send them to us
on info@astricon.net * OFF LIST *

/Olle and Steven