Only two days until the Astricon pre-conference activities start on Tuesday, and three days until the main conference opens up in Phoenix! Many of the Digium staff are on-site already, preparing the dCAP testing facilities, getting the network ready, and sorting through the arrangements to make the conference go smoothly. For those of you who thought you couldn't make it, maybe it's time to check for those last-minute airfare deals - perhaps fate is working in your favor this week! Maybe a friend or fellow Asterisk traveller can share a room with you - ask around on IRC. With 60 (!!) talks, there is almost certainly going to be a travel problem of some type with one or two of our presenters which will lead to a speaking slot being open. With this understanding of the random nature of things, there may be some of you who will attend who have a pet project or talk you've got already written and have been really interested in presenting to an audience of Asterisk-savvy administrators, users, and business people. Here's your chance! Send along your talk idea to me via email, and I'll put it on the "on deck" list of emergency fill-ins for the conference. Please have a fully-fleshed out talk, including slides - while I'd like to encourage all to submit their ideas, I need a bit more detail on your preliminary proposal due to time constraints. So give it a try! Maybe fate will find fortune with you. If you're chosen as a speaker at the last minute, dinner is on me. :-) I'm looking forward to seeing everyone this year - old friends and new faces as well. Talk with you in Phoenix! JT -- John Todd jtodd at digium.com +1-256-428-6083 Asterisk Open Source Community Director