moin, moin, it'll be strange without Obelix... Anyway, just thought I'd pass this along to the group. Also, we'd love to have an Asterisk presentation or 3, so feel free to let me know you'd like to give us a presentation on Asterisk. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ # Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg und keiner geht hin... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:11:29 -0500 From: Lisa King To: contact@plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: AstriCon - The 2005 Asterisk Conference My name is Lisa King and I am the event coordinator for AstriCon, a conference dedicated to Asterisk, the open source phone system for Linux. Asterisk is one of the fastest growing open source projects and is doing for telephony what Apache did for web servers and MySQL did for databases. I am writing you for two reasons. First, I want to extend an invitation to you and the other members of the Phoenix Linux Users Group to attend AstriCon at a significant discount. Second, I would like to offer to work with you to find a speaker in the Phoenix area who could attend a meeting and put on a presentation. A bit of background on Asterisk (feel free to skip ahead if you're already familiar): Asterisk is a complete telephone system that runs on any Linux computer. Linux was created in 1999 by Mark Spencer (who also created Gaim - the open-source instant messaging client) as a means of avoiding the purchase of an expensive proprietary telephone system. In the last six years Asterisk has evolved from a very basic application designed to fit a specific need into a flexible and powerful telephony engine. Today Asterisk can be found in homes, schools, offices, and government institutions around the globe. Over 100,000 Asterisk installations are handling millions of telephone calls each month. Asterisk is saving individuals and companies hundreds of thousands of dollars each month by avoiding toll telephone calls. Several communities in both the developing and developed world have implemented Asterisk as a critical piece of their communications infrastructure. Asterisk is growing because of the work of many thousands of Linux enthusiasts who have downloaded it, installed it, and discovered that it works. Asterisk has been used as a traditional PBX, as a replacement voicemail system, as an interactive voice response (IVR) platform, and as a component of the core of many VoIP service providers. For more information on Asterisk, check out the Asterisk site at: http://www.asterisk.org. AstriCon is the only conference dedicated exclusively to Asterisk. The event is composed of a day of tutorials, two days of conference meetings, an exhibition and trade show, as well as several pre-conference activities (an introductory seminar and a developer meeting). AstriCon will be held October 12, 13, and 14, 2005 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Anaheim, California. As one of our primary goals is the expansion of the Asterisk community, we have decided to offer LUG members a discount of 20% off the published rates. This offer is good through August 31, 2005. To use the LUG discount, please enter the following code during registration: LUG-PLUG-2005. Up to 50 people can register using this discount code. Please send back a quick acknowledgement to this letter and we will activate the code. Attached is a banner for AstriCon. If you could, please place the banner on your site with a link to either a page on your site announcing the discount (and linking on to our site) or directly to the AstriCon 2005 page. The link is: http://www.astricon.net/2005/. If you would be interested in having an Asterisk guru attend and speak at one of your meetings, please let us know. We have contacts throughout the US who have experience installing and configuring Asterisk. Sincerely, Lisa King Event Coordinator, AstriCon +1 816 256 8917 Ask Me About AstriCon! http://www.astricon.net --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss