Vastec (http://www.vestec.com/) has offered to run a workshop on using their speech recognition system with Asterisk. You would need to purchase the $25 developer kit to participate.

If you would be interested, please sign up below so that we can gauge interest and set a time.

Present:

• Doug Picket
• Henry Coleman
• Johannes Vanderknyff
• Leif Madsen
• Simon Ditner

Call for charitable organizations that could use donations:

• Small call centres
• 40 lines of dialplan and a few phones
• Find people with end-of-life hardware to donate

IT360:

• Liked being out in the middle
• Videos are nice
• 1 day event much better
• Too expensive for most of our membership though; mostly individuals, not supported by companies

TOSTC - Toronto Open Source Telephony Conference

The output of our demo IVR meeting.

PRESENT:

• Chris Alsop
• Dave Donovan
• Doug Pickett
• Henry Coleman
• Johannes Vanderknyff
• Simon Ditner

AGENDA:

The agenda will roughly be:

• What's working / what's not
• Scaling the "management" team beyond me
• Where would we like to take the group in 2009
  • spreading the word of open source telephony through outreach to
    other groups/organizations/colleges/universities

  • it360 participation
  • linuxfest participation
  • seneca foss participation
    

If you're _really_ into TAUG, and the mailing list and meetings aren't enough for you, or you're just too far away -- come join us on irc.freenode.org, #taug

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