asterisk users - Nov 2009 - AstriCon Videos and Presentations: First batch is on-line!

This year we recorded quite a few of the AstriCon sessions - 3 out of  
the 4 tracks were video taped.  The folks at TMC then went through a  
fairly painstaking process of synchronizing the video presentations to  
the slide decks that each presenter provided, so we have an index-able  
and fast-forward-able version of each talk.  I'm really excited about  
this video presentation method, since it's possible for the viewer to  
move back and forth in the video and see the complete slide  
presentation as well.   We have the first handful of videos ready for  
viewing, and here they are:

   http://www.astricon.net/2009/astricon/videoPresentations.aspx


We also have the vast majority of the presentations available for  
download as well.  Go to this page for the presentation grid:

    http://www.astricon.net/2009/astricon/agendaAtaGlance.aspx

...and click on the name of the topic you're interested in on the  
grid.  If we have a copy of the talk, it will start to download to  
you.  If your talk isn't there, contact me with a copy of your slides  
in PPT or PDF format.

  I'd like to hear from people on what they think of the videos.  We  
have a number of additional videos of the remaining video/slide  
presentations to be post-produced and put on the site, and we'll get  
those published as soon as it's possible.  This is the first year  
we're trying this format.  I'm hoping that these videos will be used  
to further people's understanding of Asterisk, to convince others that  
Asterisk can do what they want, and to encourage people to attend  
AstriCon to meet with and talk to some of the people that make this  
project so powerful, useful, and exciting to be a part of.


  PS: I, personally, had some glitches with synchronization issues  
between the video and slides.  I suspect this is a local problem with  
my somewhat-bizarre network config, but  I'd like to hear back from  
any of you who notice incomplete video and audio experiences.  Include  
your ISP, country, and general problem description and we'll try to  
smooth the issues out with some better problem descriptions.

JT

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John Todd                       email:jtodd at digium.com
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