asterisk users - Jun 2009 - Asterisk/Digium Press Opportunities: Community Contacts

Hello -

   We at Digium talk to reporters regularly, and we often are asked  
for contacts in the Asterisk community who might be interested in  
talking about their experiences or industry perspectives.  We have a  
fairly decent list of possible contacts in various sectors of the  
industry, but many of these contacts are dispersed in a variety of  
personal address books around the company.  Perhaps it's time to both  
collect this data in one place for our use for companies which we're  
already working with, and also then collect a few new entries of  
people who wouldn't mind us giving contact data to press outlets who  
might ask for particular topic areas.  While these press inquiries are  
being sent to Digium (the company) they are really asking about  
Asterisk (the project) and so I'm hoping to collect information from  
people who are looking to talk about Asterisk and their experiences  
with Open-Source telephony systems built on Asterisk.

   There really aren't many downsides for putting your name in this  
list.  You might get the opportunity to get some free press, the  
Asterisk project gets a good write-up,  Digium helps the writer, and  
the writer gets a quick response to an inquiry.  Everyone is happy!

   We won't use the data you enter here for anything other than our  
press contacts; we won't mail anything unrelated with press inquiries  
to the email address you provide, and we'll try to inform you via  
email or via phone any time there might be someone contacting you to  
whom we have given your contact data.  We won't give out your email  
address or contact data to anyone other than writers who we believe  
are legitimate authors working on a relevant story.

   Please fill in the data here if you're interested in being in our  
list of possible names to which we could forward press inquiries:

    http://bit.ly/asterisk-press


PS: Apologies for cross-posting this, but I've found that there are  
often distinct and separate groups of readers in the three most active  
lists operating in the community.  This seems to be an item that would  
find interest to varying degrees in all three lists.

JT

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John Todd                       email:jtodd at digium.com
Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director
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direct: +1-256-428-6083         http://www.digium.com/