[asterisk-users] AstriCon 2009 speaker submissions open!

[John Todd]

  AstriCon 2009 is still 5 months away, but the time will fly!  We're  
looking for speaker presentations for 2009's conference - do you have  
something you want to talk about?  Submit your talk proposal today -  
the proposal window closes on June 1.  AstriCon is the single largest  
conference dedicated to Asterisk applications and business, and this  
year we hope to have even more technical, business, and industry- 
oriented talks that will be incredibly valuable to participants who  
work with Asterisk in some way.

  Asterisk is now the most-installed PBX in North America, and the  
momentum is growing.  There are new apps, new installations, and new  
layers of programs being added to Asterisk every day, and the  
attendees at AstriCon are there so they can hear about what YOU'RE  
doing.   This year we're scaling back to 4 tracks (from 5 last year)  
because too many people missed talks that they had wanted to attend,  
so this means higher attendance for each talk as well as a bit more  
analysis for submitted talk topics.  We already have a good handful of  
speaker topics so far, but it would be great to have another surplus

  Pass this message to your business associates who work with Asterisk  
- it would be great to see some of the more far-flung developers,  
businesses, and users of Asterisk have a chance to participate in the  
larger community of people who make up the Asterisk ecosystem.

Name:       AstriCon 2009
Date:       October 13-15, 2009
Location:   Phoenix, AZ
Close date: June 1

http://www.astricon.net/2009/ - general information
http://www.astricon.net/2009/speaking.php - go directly to sign-up!

Sample Topics:
  - Scaling Asterisk: Thousands of Users or Channels
  - Unique Implementations: Lessons Learned, Methods Used
  - Integrating Asterisk in legacy systems
  - Business Lessons for Asterisk resale or consulting
  - Asterisk in Niche Markets
  - VoIP and Asterisk Security
  - Voice Recognition/Voice Synthesis Topics
  - Regulatory Issues with VoIP
  - Asterisk in all layers of the OSI model
  - "How-To" topics for specific difficult tasks

Tips for speakers:

- Developers:  Your talk proposal should describe what your work is,  
who would benefit from it, and the synopsis should clearly indicate  
who would be interested in this talk. Remember that many of the  
participants aren't C coders, but most will have a very good  
understanding of dialplans and call flows.

- Vendors:  We discourage "advertisements" for products.  Talk about  
how your product can be used in conjunction with other tools to solve  
a problem.  Focus on methods, and use concrete examples or case  
studies instead of on product lines.  The more detailed you make your  
submission as to how attendees will benefit from your talk, the more  
likely your talk will be chosen.

- Integrators: If you'd like to discuss specific case studies, please  
mention company names and size/scope of the installation in your  
synopsis.  It will attract attendees who are looking for real-world  
data.

  As is typical, speakers attend the conference at no cost, which  
given some difficulties in travel budgets may be an incentive for  
perhaps more talk proposals than in previous years (though we had 80+  
last year, which was fantastic!)  If you have any questions regarding  
the proposal methods, or about the conference in general, please drop  
me a line and I'll try to answer your questions or forward you to the  
person who directly handles the issues you may have.  Thanks, and I  
hope to see your talk proposal soon!

JT


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John Todd                       email:jtodd at digium.com
Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director
445 Jan Davis Drive NW -  Huntsville AL 35806  -   USA
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