AstriCon 2009 is still 5 months away, but the time will fly! We're
looking for speaker presentations for 2009's conference - do you have
something you want to talk about? Submit your talk proposal today -
the proposal window closes on June 1. AstriCon is the single largest
conference dedicated to Asterisk applications and business, and this
year we hope to have even more technical, business, and industry-
oriented talks that will be incredibly valuable to participants who
work with Asterisk in some way.
Asterisk is now the most-installed PBX in North America, and the
momentum is growing. There are new apps, new installations, and new
layers of programs being added to Asterisk every day, and the
attendees at AstriCon are there so they can hear about what YOU'RE
doing. This year we're scaling back to 4 tracks (from 5 last year)
because too many people missed talks that they had wanted to attend,
so this means higher attendance for each talk as well as a bit more
analysis for submitted talk topics. We already have a good handful of
speaker topics so far, but it would be great to have another surplus
Pass this message to your business associates who work with Asterisk
- it would be great to see some of the more far-flung developers,
businesses, and users of Asterisk have a chance to participate in the
larger community of people who make up the Asterisk ecosystem.
Name: AstriCon 2009
Date: October 13-15, 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Close date: June 1
http://www.astricon.net/2009/ - general information
http://www.astricon.net/2009/speaking.php - go directly to sign-up!
Sample Topics:
- Scaling Asterisk: Thousands of Users or Channels
- Unique Implementations: Lessons Learned, Methods Used
- Integrating Asterisk in legacy systems
- Business Lessons for Asterisk resale or consulting
- Asterisk in Niche Markets
- VoIP and Asterisk Security
- Voice Recognition/Voice Synthesis Topics
- Regulatory Issues with VoIP
- Asterisk in all layers of the OSI model
- "How-To" topics for specific difficult tasks
Tips for speakers:
- Developers: Your talk proposal should describe what your work is,
who would benefit from it, and the synopsis should clearly indicate
who would be interested in this talk. Remember that many of the
participants aren't C coders, but most will have a very good
understanding of dialplans and call flows.
- Vendors: We discourage "advertisements" for products. Talk about
how your product can be used in conjunction with other tools to solve
a problem. Focus on methods, and use concrete examples or case
studies instead of on product lines. The more detailed you make your
submission as to how attendees will benefit from your talk, the more
likely your talk will be chosen.
- Integrators: If you'd like to discuss specific case studies, please
mention company names and size/scope of the installation in your
synopsis. It will attract attendees who are looking for real-world
data.
As is typical, speakers attend the conference at no cost, which
given some difficulties in travel budgets may be an incentive for
perhaps more talk proposals than in previous years (though we had 80+
last year, which was fantastic!) If you have any questions regarding
the proposal methods, or about the conference in general, please drop
me a line and I'll try to answer your questions or forward you to the
person who directly handles the issues you may have. Thanks, and I
hope to see your talk proposal soon!
JT
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John Todd email:jtodd at digium.com
Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA
direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/
