Preamble: -------- Tomorrow we have an extra event! We are hosting a meeting at the Toronto Convention Centre in the North building tomorrow evening. It is a free event, no pre-registration is required.
It also happens to be Mark Spencer's birthday! Hopefully he'll be in town in time for us to buy him a few drinks ;-) Meeting Topic: ------------- Steve Lecomte and Dru Lavigne will be presenting on the open source BlindSide webcasting and conferencing system. The Blindside Project aims to develop an open source webcasting and conferencing system. The project uses Red5, Asterisk, jiaxclient, asterisk-java, OpenOffice, SWFTools, and other open source software. Some of Blindside's features: Implemented: - voice and video conferencing - video conferencing - group and private chat - slide presentation - administration inteface Planned: - file transfer - application/desktop sharing - scheduling - whiteboard - recording and archiving Bios: ---- Steve Lecomte is the Vice President of Business Development at Core Telecom Innovations and and CEO of the Lecomte Consulting Group, responsible for the advancement of open source internet application development, strategic initiatives and partnerships, with a primary focus on advanced telephony projects using Asterisk. He is also the founder of the Ottawa Asterisk User Group and a contributer to the Talent First Network. Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. A prolific author, she is the editor of the Open Source Business Resource (www.osbr.ca) and she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics. When: ---- TOMORROW, Tuesday April 8th, 2007 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Where: ----- Room 201D Toronto Convention Centre North Building 255 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario M5V 2W6 Afterwards: ---------- We will progress Baton Rouge , around 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Baton Rouge 277 Front St. W., Next to the Metro Centre 416-593-6620 ~~ ============= IT360 DETAILS ============= Free Digium Keynotes for Asterisk User Group Members ==================================================== There are eight keynote presentations during IT360 which are all automatically included with your registration. Two of the eight are Mark Spencer and Kevin Fleming from Digium Inc. Read on for their presentation details: KEVIN FLEMING ~ DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, DIGIUM INC. April 8, 2008 : 3:00pm - 4:00pm Asterisk Virtualization >>Abstract: This session will discuss the benefits, pitfalls and economic advantages of running Asterisk on popular virtualization environments including VMware and Xen. Virtualization provides virtual PBX services, and support complex redundancy and failover models. It is valuable for geographic distribution of services with relatively simple reconfiguration when network changes are required. MARK SPENCER ~ FOUNDER & CTO, DIGIUM INC. April 9, 2008 - 12:10pm - 1:00pm The Future of Open Source Telephony >>Abstract: Mark Spencer, Asterisk creator, will present the "The Future of Telephony", including new and exciting evidence of Asterisk's growing business presence around the world. Summary of Asterisk & Open Telephony Conference April 7-9, 2008 =============================================== >>April 7, 2008 1) A Gentle Intro to VoIP and SIP for Business ~ Henry Coleman 2) Integrating Asterisk: Round Table Forum ~ Jim Van Meggelen, Kevin Broadfoot, Leif Madsen, Simon Ditner >> April 8, 2008 1) Asterisk as an Appliance: Plug & Play Telephony ~ Kristian Kielhofner 2) Asterisk Manager: Interface (AMI): When, Why and How ~ Clod Patry 3) Why Voice Matters in a Web 2.0 World ~ Matthew Gamble 4) Asterisk Virtualization ~ Kevin Fleming (Keynote) 5) Clustering Asterisk ~ Leif Madsen >> April 9, 2008 1) Migrating from POTS to VoIP ~ Jared Smith 2) Open Source Call Centres ~ Matt Florel, Reza M. Reza 3) The Future of Open Source Telephony ~ Mark Spencer (Keynote) 4) Building Blocks for Powerful Phone Applications ~ Simon Ditner 5) Case Studies: Large Business Use of Asterisk ~ Jim Van Meggelen Links With More Info ==================== 1) Official Asterisk & Open Telephony page: http://www.it360.ca/2008/asterisk.cfm 2) Full Conference Summary (90+ sessions): http://www.it360.ca/2008/conf_glance_day.cfm 3) Registration Page: https://www.exporeg.com/it360/ QUESTIONS? ========== Contact Sharon Vernon, guest services. 905-695-0123 x214 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Event Website: http://www.it360.ca/ REGISTER HERE: https://www.exporeg.com/it360/ ++ Remember to contact me for your code: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
