asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Who is going to AstriCon (The Asterisk Conference)?

Hi,

I'm taking a straw-poll to see who out there is planning on going to
AstriCon.  I would like to hear from both new members of the community
and gurus.  What kinds of things would you like to see at an Asterisk
Conference?  What topics are good BOF (Birds Of a Feather - informal
discussion group) fodder?  What parts of Asterisk require the most
attention?

FYI - AstriCon is October 12 - 14 in Anaheim.  For more information on
what we currently have planned, see the web site (listed below).

Thanks,

Steve
-- 
Steven Sokol
Sokol & Associates/AstriCon

Ask Me About AstriCon 2005!
http://www.astricon.net/

I will be there.

Matthew Simpson
TxLink-Commpartners



Steven Sokol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm taking a straw-poll to see who out there is planning on going to
> AstriCon.  I would like to hear from both new members of the community
> and gurus.  What kinds of things would you like to see at an Asterisk
> Conference?  What topics are good BOF (Birds Of a Feather - informal
> discussion group) fodder?  What parts of Asterisk require the most
> attention?
> 
> FYI - AstriCon is October 12 - 14 in Anaheim.  For more information on
> what we currently have planned, see the web site (listed below).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve

On 9/16/05, Steven Sokol <steven.sokol@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm taking a straw-poll to see who out there is planning on going to
> AstriCon. 
 Enjoyed it last year, but putting it on the west coast seems to be pretty 
restrictive. I won't be making it. Atlanta was a good compromise.
 Maybe consider moving it to a more central location next year and I'll be 
back.
 -Brian
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On 9/16/05, Steven Sokol <steven.sokol@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm taking a straw-poll to see who out there is planning on going to
> AstriCon.  I would like to hear from both new members of the community
> and gurus.  What kinds of things would you like to see at an Asterisk
> Conference?  What topics are good BOF (Birds Of a Feather - informal
> discussion group) fodder?  What parts of Asterisk require the most
> attention?
> 
> FYI - AstriCon is October 12 - 14 in Anaheim.  For more information on
> what we currently have planned, see the web site (listed below).
> 
So far we've had at least one person indicate that they would not want
to travel to the US at this time.  All politics aside, how many out
there feel the same way?  I do NOT want to start a polical flame-war,
but I am curious at the number of people who simply won't come to the
States due to the current Administration, the Iraq war, or some other
reason.

Thanks,

-S

-- 
Steven Sokol
CEO/Manager
Sokol & Associates, LLC

Ask Me About AstriCon 2005!
http://www.astricon.net/

[snip]
> As for topics, I enjoyed Madrid, but feel there are 2 tracks to be
> seen there:
>      1) pragmatists - What can I do with Asterisk? Business Drivers.
> For them you want case studies, some forward looking announcements, and
> loads of demos of edgy configs. Plus economics - eg 8 line PRI costs
> ?13/month/channel in the UK - but 40 in France (or what ever)
True.  We do have some business-focus.  A few of both the tutorials
and the conference sessions are business topics and industry
perspectives.  We want to strike a comfortable balance between the
entrepreneurial community and the hard-core technical community (which
is in some ways a challenge).
>      2) Developers - We want a chance to hack code with our cohort -
> the most productive thing in Madrid for me was 2 mins of Mark's time
> expaining why I had misunderstood IAX2 protocol.
> For this I think you could have a coding day, coffee pizza, good
> internet
> and a sprinkling of gurus, I think you'd get loads of projects
> started/finished/polished.
That is an awesome suggestion!  We'll do it!  We have a room we've
labeled the "Email Garden".  We'll rename it the Code Domain or
something and try to get at least one guru to man the desk in there,
dispensing advice as well as pizza and Red Bull.  The room was already
set to look like a big living room with lots of wired and wireless. 
We'll just turn it into a coding center.  We can even bring in some
hardware so people can "lab up" scenarios which require a full
Asterisk with TDM cards, etc.

(Anybody out there want to volunteer to bring in the hardware?)

-S

> 
> I'm not saying you want to separate these two, it is great to have
> the suits and
> geeks meet, but you do want to have some specialization in the sessions.
> 
> Just my thoughts,
> 
> Keep up the good work.
> 
> T.
> >
> > FYI - AstriCon is October 12 - 14 in Anaheim.  For more information on
> > what we currently have planned, see the web site (listed below).
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> > --
> > Steven Sokol
> > Sokol & Associates/AstriCon
> >
> > Ask Me About AstriCon 2005!
> > http://www.astricon.net/
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-- 
Steven Sokol
CEO/Manager
Sokol & Associates, LLC

Ask Me About AstriCon 2005!
http://www.astricon.net/

On 9/17/05, steve@daviesfam.org <steve@daviesfam.org>
wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Steven Sokol wrote:
> 
> > (Anybody out there want to volunteer to bring in the hardware?)
> 
> 
> I'll bring some Digium hardware, Sirrix boards.  Assuming there'll
be some
> security against them disappearing...
Cool!  Thank you very much for bringing those!  We'll be able to lock
the room up at night, so that helps.
> 
> Perhaps someone with less distance to travel will supply the PCs?
> 
Actually, we have a group that's renting us PCs for 125/week.  (Nice
systems - P4, 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD).  Perhaps (pardon the
commericalism on this non-commercial list) some group out there would
like to sponsor the rental of two or three of these guys?

Otherwise, anyone in the LA area have PCs to bring?

Thanks,

Steve
> Steve
> 
> 

-- 
Steven Sokol
CEO/Manager
Sokol & Associates, LLC

Ask Me About AstriCon 2005!
http://www.astricon.net/

Olivier Taylor wrote:
>Does anybody has intalled it on freebsd with unixodbc or libiodbc and have
>it working?
>
>Regards,
>
>Olivier
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I have installed unixodbc for realtime on freebsd 5.4 and it works fine. 
I currently not use it due to some limitations in * realtime .

cheers
urban

> I currently not use it due to some limitations in * realtime .
    Such as?

-Matthew

On 9/17/05, Ed Greenberg <edg@greenberg.org>
wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm not going because it falls on Yom Kuppur. What's up with that?
Ed,

I am really very sorry about that.  I know it will prevent some people
from making it.  Unfortunately, Pulver moved VON to the spot we had
last year (this next week) and we were stuck looking for another week.

We took the only week that didn't have a directly competing show
already scheduled.  It was in no way intended as a slight to the
Jewish community within the Asterisk community.  Next year we will be
more careful and better prepared.

Many humble apologies,

Steven
> 
> </edg>
> 

-- 
Steven Sokol
CEO/Manager
Sokol & Associates, LLC

Ask Me About AstriCon 2005!
http://www.astricon.net/