Due to a scheduling conflict, The IT360 keynote talk on Asterisk and Virtualization by Kevin Fleming, Digium's Director of software development, that was scheduled for 3pm this afternoon has been added to our meeting this evening!
So, in addition to Steve and Dru's talk on Blindside, we will be joined by Kevin. He 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 for complex redundancy and failover models. Cheers, spd On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Simon P. Ditner wrote: > TODAY 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. > > If you're planning on visiting the Expo floor, make sure to bring a > complimentary pass: http://www.it360.ca/2008/pdfs/comp_pass_08.pdf > > 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: > ---- > TODAY, 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
