Sorry everyone, the conference organizers informed me that we'd stepped outside the bounds of what a user group was permitted to do at meetings by offering giveaways from outside parties.
IT360 has however been very polite about it, and donated 5 full-access passes for the final day of the conference (Wednesday; http://www.it360.ca/conf_glance_day.cfm), which we will be giving away at the meeting on Tuesday evening. The donated equipment from Sangoma and Aastra will be given away in draws at future TAUG meetings. Hope to see you all at the show! Cheers, spd On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Simon P. Ditner wrote: > Hi All, > > A few updates for the meeting this Tuesday... > > Doug Vilim from Sangoma has donated a 4 port FXO card _with_ hardware > echo cancellation (Sangoma's A200D, ~$600 USD) to be given away in a draw > at the meeting, and has graciously made arrangements for sandwiches and > drinks. > > Also, Sandy McKenzie from Aastra has donated their latest SIP phone, the > Aastra 55i (~$240 USD) for a second draw, and has added another Aastra > 55i to our loan pool. > > Hope to see you all there! > > Cheers, > spd > > ---- > > 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 >
