Hello all, This month (technically May), we will be holding our meeting at the Metro Convention Centre at the IT360.ca event. As always, our meeting is a FREE event. You can also visit the vendor expo being held May 1st & 2nd free of charge by pre-registering online at:
https://www.exporeg.com/it360/ Or presenting this free pass at the door: http://taug.ca/documents/IT360_Tradeshow_Pass.pdf ---- IT360: There is a full blow Asterisk conference being held from April 30th - May 2nd, with an interesting lineup. Should you wish to sign up, use discount code "A101" for 25% off the listed prices. The confirmed topics are: - Asterisk Keynote by Kevin Fleming, Sr. Software engineer with Digium - Installing Asterisk - Open Source Telephony Security - A gentle introduction to VOIP for business - Migrating from POTS to VOIP - Asterisk and Small Business - Integrating Asterisk and other Open Source Applications - What are Enterprises Doing with Asterisk? - Exploring the Unknown-what you didn't know your phone system could do - Open Source Call Centres - How to choose the Right VoIP solution - The Challenge of Deploying High Quality VoIP - VoIP Security Threats combined with Vulnerabilities of a VoIP Network - Understanding SIP The code is good for all their packages, see the following for more details and registration: http://www.it360.ca/asterisk.cfm (asterisk specific content) http://www.it360.ca/conf_glance_day.cfm (all sessions) ---- The free TAUG meeting Synopsis: "On this special event, Matt Florrell and Reza Mosaddeque Reza have teamed up to provide a unique presentation. Reza will be representing TAUG & Matt will be representing FAUG (Florida Asterisk Users Group) at the IT360 event premises. Reza is our local Asterisk & ViciDial consultant & founder of Digital Canada Inc who will be giving a gentle introduction to Asterisk & its capabilities as we are expecting a lot of new enthusiasts & curious onlookers. Shortly following, our guest of honour Matt Florell arriving from Florida, maker of ViciDial (pronounced as Vee-Chee Dial), will be speaking about this Enterprise Class Call Centre Suite software. Matt Florell has over ten years experience in building and managing Contact Center Customer Relationship Management(CRM) and telephony systems. He is the President of eflo.net Consulting in St. Petersburg, Florida VICIDIAL Call Center Suite is Open Source, and currently in use at over 200 companies in over 30 countries worldwide. Lets hope Matt also brings some warm weather with him to Toronto!" When: Tuesday May 1st, 2007 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Where: Room 202D Toronto Convention Centre North Building 255 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W6 Schedule: - Brief introduction to Asterisk for newcomers -- Reza Mosaddeque Reza - Open source call centres with ViciDial -- Matt Florrell, creator - Plenty of Q&A :-) Afterwards: We will progress to a nearby pub (to be decided), around 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Cheers, spd
