asterisk users - Dec 2008 - Rate My Dialplan Contest Announced - Win a Phone or Copies of APSTel Visual Dialplan Std or Pro!

We often find ourselves reading through all sorts of contests on the
Internet that never seem to echo our own personal skill set or interests.
Perhaps you've even fantasized about a type of contest with the types of
prizes and goodies that YOU'D actually enjoy. Maybe you've wished there
were
something along the lines of a asterisk phone system diagram contest?  With
prizes ranging from APSTel visual dial plan software licenses to an Aastra
57I IP telephone? Does that sound like you? It does!?

Well it's your lucky day!!

Flewid Inc, Ottawa Phone Systems, APSTel and VOIP Phreak have all been kind
and generous enough to sponsor just such a contest! Not only does it include
some prizes that you're sure to salivate over, but it also offers you a way
to showcase your elite and skillful phone system diagram designing skills! 

All you'll need to do is submit your best, most organized and beautifully
crafted IVR diagram for an Asterisk or similar VOIP PBX phone system. The
top three overall diagrams with the most overall votes will be selected as
the winners and will be awarded the following prizes:

1st place: An APSTel dial plan (professional license) donated by -- you
guessed it - APSTel!
2nd place: An Aastra 57I IP telephone donated by Ottawa Phone Systems and
Flewid Inc!
3rd place: An APSTel dial plan (standard license) donated by APSTel!

The contest is going to be running from December 5th 2008 through February
5th 2009. You can submit your phone system IVR diagram entries either at the
Rate My Dial Plan website (http://www.ratemydialplan.com) or by e-mail at
diagrams at ratemydialplan.com. 

Again, the prizes will be awarded to the IVR diagrams with the most votes by
February 5th 2009, just in time for you to enjoy your wonderful prize in the
New Year! So get planning, get thinking and get working, because the
competition will be bountiful and high in quality! We would expect nothing
less from you all anyway and know we can expect some incredibly and
inventive diagrams! 

Make sure you get your submission in before the deadline on FEBRUARY 5TH,
2009! We'd hate to see a quality diagram get disqualified because you
procrastinated and didn't submit it to us in time! Make sure you think out
of the box and with the fact that the plans with the most votes will be
declared the victors. While you could definitely play it safe and close to
the vest and still get votes, it's highly likely the winner will be one that
presents us ideas on things that haven't been done before or even a better
way to accomplish existing methods. 

While we'd like to offer everyone a chance to participate in this contest,
you do have to be at LEAST 13 years of age and able to utilize the prizes
effectively. What this means is in consideration of the fact that the prizes
are powered capable for North American markets only. So take that into
account if you're in a different country and if you have any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact us to address them.  
Now go get designing! We wish you all the best of luck and look forward to
seeing all of the great designs!

Submit your phone system IVR diagram entries either at the Rate My Dial Plan
website (http://www.ratemydialplan.com) or by e-mail at
diagrams at ratemydialplan.com.

Thanks,
Matt G

: http://www.voipphreak.ca
: http://www.ratemydialplan.com
: http://www.asterisk-jobs.com

On Dec 4, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Matt Gibson wrote:
> We often find ourselves reading through all sorts of contests on the
> Internet that never seem to echo our own personal skill set or  
> interests.
> Perhaps you've even fantasized about a type of contest with the  
> types of
> prizes and goodies that YOU'D actually enjoy. Maybe you've wished  
> there were
> something along the lines of a asterisk phone system diagram  
> contest?  With
> prizes ranging from APSTel visual dial plan software licenses to an  
> Aastra
> 57I IP telephone? Does that sound like you? It does!?
>
> Well it's your lucky day!!
>
> Flewid Inc, Ottawa Phone Systems, APSTel and VOIP Phreak have all  
> been kind
> and generous enough to sponsor just such a contest! Not only does it  
> include
> some prizes that you're sure to salivate over, but it also offers  
> you a way
> to showcase your elite and skillful phone system diagram designing  
> skills!
>
> All you'll need to do is submit your best, most organized and  
> beautifully
> crafted IVR diagram for an Asterisk or similar VOIP PBX phone  
> system. The
> top three overall diagrams with the most overall votes will be  
> selected as
> the winners and will be awarded the following prizes:
> [snip]


I think you'd get just as much interest in an "Obfuscated Dialplan  
Contest" which seems to be the most popular type of dialplan  
programming.  The more unreadable, ugly, and opaque the code becomes,  
the more secure the employment of the administrator is who created  
it.  In this economy, it would tend to lead one to think that dialplan  
logic will naturally become more difficult and tangled.  :-)

There's precedent - http://www.ioccc.org/

JT

---
John Todd
jtodd at digium.com        +1-256-428-6083
Asterisk Open Source Community Director

On December 4, 2008 08:31:40 pm Matt Gibson wrote:
> 1st place: An APSTel dial plan (professional license) donated by -- you
> guessed it - APSTel!
> 2nd place: An Aastra 57I IP telephone donated by Ottawa Phone Systems and
> Flewid Inc!
> 3rd place: An APSTel dial plan (standard license) donated by APSTel!
So... if you can write the slickest dialplan, you get dialplan generator 
software?

-A.

> > 3rd place: An APSTel dial plan (standard license) donated by APSTel!
> 
> So... if you can write the slickest dialplan, you get dialplan
> generator
> software?
Hi Andrew, 

Well, the thought is that most people are using SmartDraw, Dia, Visio,
Illustrator or Corel Draw to create these types of diagrams so we thought we
would give away software that is fully intended for this type of work :)

Thanks,
Matt G