[asterisk-dev] Developer Summit at Astricon USA 2006

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Tuesday, October 24th, there will be a Developer Summit at Astricon in Dallas. In the past this has not been an actual 'working' event, but more of a meet-and-greet and chat about issues session. However, this time we are going to try to make it an actual working development session, with five or six major topics of discussion followed by a couple of hours of Q&A time (and then we all go to the Code Zone anyway!).

The room will be setup classroom-style for around 30 people, with tables, power, and wireless network connectivity. There will also be room for another 30 people lecture-style (chairs only) for those wishing to attend but not necessarily participate in the discussions. I am trying to get a conference phone setup in the room as well so that we can have a call-in bridge for people to be able to listen in during the agenda time and then open it up for two-way conferencing during the Q&A session.

As we did in Italy earlier this year, I'd like to extend invitations to all interested members of the development community to attend and participate in this event, but due to the limited space the number of people that will be given 'participant' status will be somewhat limited. If you are interested in attending as a participating developer, email me OFF LIST with your information; if I'm not already familiar with who you are and your qualifications, feel free to tell me how wonderful a contributing community member you have been :-) I'll make the final decisions about the participant list in the next 10 days or so.

Once the attendee list is set, we'll post a list of potential discussion topics (and allow more to be proposed), and finally we'll take votes from the community on what they wish to see the Developer Summit focus on. Don't send in requests for topics or votes at this time, though, or they'll just be ignored. It will be very clearly announced here when the topic list (agenda) is open for discussion and voting should take place (which will probably be the week just before Astricon).

For those of you who cannot attend due to travel conflicts, restrictions or other reasons, we'll miss you there... but the rest of us will try to do some good work for you.

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Kevin P. Fleming
Senior Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.