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Michael Graves bounced this to me this morning - it looks interesting as a possible device for which an Asterisk channel driver could be written: http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1699391/rtx_releases_dectcatiq_20_usb_dongle/index.html?source=r_technology DECT really is a nice protocol if properly done - wireless phones should really just work like this everywhere. JT --- John

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

Mark and Ed received word today that the long-awaited RFC for IAX2 has been approved by the IETF, and is now published: http://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc5456.txt Thanks to Ed Guy, Mark Spencer, Brian Capouch, Frank Miller, and Kenny Shumard! Lots of revisions and discussions have paid off. JT --- John Todd email:jtodd at digium.com Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open

Each year at AstriCon, we have an Open Source Pavilion which showcases projects which are adjuncts to Asterisk, or which are directly relevant to improving the utility and features of Asterisk. It gives smaller projects the chance to have some space to display what they're doing, and to give demonstrations to the AstriCon attendees who are interested in some of the things happening

Hello! I've been asked to get a show of hands for some analysts for users in Higher Ed - Universities, Colleges, or any other 2 or 4 year degree- granting institutions. If this fits you, please let me know your contact data and briefly how you're using Asterisk, and if you don't mind I can pass your contact data along (for consumption by humans only - this is not a mailing

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

[sorry for cross-post here from -biz, but there are significant non- cross-subscribed audiences] I'm looking for some case studies for people who are implementing Open Source Asterisk in Federal, State, and Local governments in the United States. Please reply PRIVATELY to jtodd at digium.com with contact data, and I'll follow up. I have some requests from various directions for

[moving to asterisk-users by request] On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:56 AM, John Todd <jtodd at digium.com> wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:38 PM, James Lamanna wrote: > >>> On Jan 26, 2009, at 8:53 PM, James Lamanna wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Is it just me, or does DTMF queuing not work properly? >>>> I'm consistently faced with

Just a reminder: AstriCon is coming up in October in Washington, DC (http://www.astricon.net/ ) and we're looking forward to seeing you there! We're getting to the deadline for Innovation Awards for this year. What's an Innovation Award? The Innovation Award is designed to recognize developers, customers and partners for outstanding achievements that are improving business

How many times have you been on a conference call and some other participant puts their line on hold, leading to their hold music making conversation impossible for the rest of the group? This scenario happens to me all the time and it drives me NUTS. I prefer no hold music, because I am often on conference calls, and I also usually hate listening to music on the phone when I usually

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.

Hi - We've received a request for some contacts of people in the University/higher education systems who have recently or quietly implemented Asterisk. I have some on my press contact list, and some that I just know personally, but I'm sure there is quite a list that are less obvious and are "just working". I know or a fact there are hundreds out there, but the

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,

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

AstriCon in Washington DC is only 102 days away! October 26-28 - slightly over three months - time is flying. The early bird discount ($595 for the whole conference) runs out next week - see if you can get in under the wire! The final selection of AstriCon talks is under way. If you've been intending to submit your talk and you missed the June 30 deadline... well, you're late.

I'm giving a talk at SCALE 2009 (Southern CAlifornia Linux Expo) on Sunday in Los Angeles, and the topic of my talk is "Open Source in an Economic Downturn". I've got lots of talking points for this talk, but it would be interesting to hear some short anecdotes about how you in the Asterisk community are thriving, or at least surviving, by virtue of the benefits of

I just ran across these guys - looks very interesting: http://xelatec.com/xippr/install They distribute a self-installing ISO with Asterisk, FreePBX, and some pre-built software to do "radio over IP". You'll need to buy the USB radio hardware, but it looks really interesting as a pre-built system for radio trunking using some of the Asterisk capabilities. There is a

I've been involved with getting better data for running Asterisk on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing system. Here are some calculations I've made on costs based on current published prices on Amazon's system. Feel free to tell me that I'm wrong with these calculations - but be specific if you find any problems, as I suspect others may glom onto these figures as gospel and

I'm doing some quick research on how to get our videos from AstriCon available in a "reasonable" format that allows easy viewing, reduces our bandwidth costs, and allows good tracking for who/where/what is viewing the videos. YouTube seems to have a very nice set of tools and statistics collection methods, and might be perfect EXCEPT.... Their main limitation right now

We're down to slightly less than a month between now and AstriCon! October 13-15 is drawing close. If you've not booked your travel reservations to Phoenix, now is the time to do it! Sept 23rd is the cutoff date for the room discount, and we've requested another block of rooms for attendees. The Renaissance is the exclusive hotel of AstriCon 2009. It is where most of the