I'll post my semi-annual request for press contacts. If you have an Asterisk installation that matches one or more of these adjectives: - enterprise-oriented - government-oriented - education-oriented - unique - clever - large - complex ...we would be interested in having you talk with the press! We at Digium keep a list of people who wouldn't mind talking to the press on their open-source Asterisk installations, because we get inquiries all the time about different things. "We want to talk to people who are using Asterisk to do _________!" is what we get, and it's great to be able to have a pocket-full of people who meet the criteria who don't mind spending a bit of time talking about how they use Asterisk to solve a particular task. Remember: Asterisk and all open-source projects have almost zero press other than what YOU can help with. We're competing with tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars in press and marketing that is spent by proprietary vendors. The press is very, very interested in hearing about Asterisk, but we don't have a giant list of OSS Asterisk users from which we can cherry-pick names, or offer discounts on yearly subscription fees (because there aren't any!) to help out with press interviews, etc. Help the project, help yourself - put your name on the list! If you've already filled out this form, no need to again - you're on the list, and if there is a press inquiry that seems to be a good match, we'll pass them to you! If you're an integrator, please don't fill out the form - have your customers fill out the form - press folks are always looking for end users, not integrators. http://bit.ly/asterisk-press JT --- 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/
Andrew Latham
2010-May-10 18:59 UTC
[asterisk-users] Using Asterisk? Get on the press list!
I just filled out this form and it needs some updates... 1. Field for website 2. City? I put City + Country because I am not in the USA.... 3. Other type of use: Building Automation 4. Size of Installation? For those of us who are integrators should we total all our installations or just list the largest? ~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software * Learn more about Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux * Learn more about Tux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:32 PM, John Todd <jtodd at digium.com> wrote:> > I'll post my semi-annual request for press contacts. ?If you have an > Asterisk installation that matches one or more of these adjectives: > > ?- enterprise-oriented > ?- government-oriented > ?- education-oriented > ?- unique > ?- clever > ?- large > ?- complex > > ?...we would be interested in having you talk with the press! ?We at > Digium keep a list of people who wouldn't mind talking to the press on > their open-source Asterisk installations, because we get inquiries all > the time about different things. ?"We want to talk to people who are > using Asterisk to do _________!" is what we get, and it's great to be > able to have a pocket-full of people who meet the criteria who don't > mind spending a bit of time talking about how they use Asterisk to > solve a particular task. > > Remember: Asterisk and all open-source projects have almost zero press > other than what YOU can help with. ?We're competing with tens > (hundreds?) of millions of dollars in press and marketing that is > spent by proprietary vendors. ?The press is very, very interested in > hearing about Asterisk, but we don't have a giant list of OSS Asterisk > users from which we can cherry-pick names, or offer discounts on > yearly subscription fees (because there aren't any!) to help out with > press interviews, etc. ? Help the project, help yourself - put your > name on the list! > > If you've already filled out this form, no need to again - you're on > the list, and if there is a press inquiry that seems to be a good > match, we'll pass them to you! ?If you're an integrator, please don't > fill out the form - have your customers fill out the form - press > folks are always looking for end users, not integrators. > > ? http://bit.ly/asterisk-press > > JT > > --- > 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/ > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > ? http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >