asterisk users - Jan 2010 - Digium Asterisk World at ITEXPO - Yahoo keynote update

I don't know how many of you are going to be at ITEXPO/Digium Asterisk  
World in Miami next week - I hope to see as many of you as possible,  
though.

There has been an interesting change in the line-up for the show, that  
I think bears mentioning here since it possibly will help quite a few  
of you in your discussions about getting Asterisk into your company.   
We've had the good fortune to have a last-minute keynote addition at  
the show, which is going to be Jeremy Wadhams from Yahoo.   He's going  
to be talking about a Fortune 500 implementation of Asterisk across  
their entire network, and why they made the decision to move to Open- 
Source telephony for the core of their voice network.

Keynote: 3:30 - 4:00 PM on Wednesday  - Jeremy Wadhams, Yahoo

It's not yet on the ITEXPO site, since we only confirmed this  
yesterday with Jeremy, who is really being a great sport for doing  
this on short notice.

Having Yahoo giving a keynote on their multi-thousand seat  
installation is great news for the Asterisk community in general, and  
is great news specifically for other Enterprise managers who have been  
looking for that all-important set of examples of public users of a  
technology.  (Enterprise tends to move in herds.)  There are large  
numbers of Enterprise users of Asterisk, but it's always great to get  
a "name-brand" company who can be offered as a proponent of Asterisk.

Again, hope to see all of you there in Miami next week!

http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/

JT

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John Todd                       email:jtodd at digium.com
Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director
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On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:17 -0500, John Todd wrote:
> I don't know how many of you are going to be at ITEXPO/Digium Asterisk
> World in Miami next week - I hope to see as many of you as possible,  
> though.
> 
A bit too far, i'll be at fosdem, Brussels