Toronto Asterisk User Group

Topic: (PLEASE NOTE the date change from Wednesday to Thursday due to facilities availability)

This THURSDAY, Reza, founder of Digital Canada Communications will be covering two topics:

1. A business overview and cost analysis of using Open Source Call Centres in the field, specifically ViciDial. How complete the implementation is, and how well it scales.

2. His impressions of the huge NXTComm telecom conference in the US a couple of weeks ago, where he met with Mark Spencer (founder of Asterisk & Digium), along with Allison Smith, the Voice of Asterisk

Reza, founder of Digital Canada Communications will be covering two topics:

1. A business overview and cost analysis of using Open Source Call Centres in the field, specifically ViciDial. How complete the implementation is, and how well it scales.

2. His impressions of the huge NXTComm telecom conference in the US a couple of weeks ago, where he met with Mark Spencer (founder of Asterisk & Digium), along with Allison Smith the Voice of Asterisk

For those joining us at Toby's afterwards**, Reza also has a treat -- 100 copies of the 44 page book "AsteriskNow Get Asterisk up and running in minutes!", a special Digium Edition published by Wiley Publishing (ISBN 978-0-470-16507-2)

**We aren't permitted giveaways in the city facilities

This month we are being joined by Andrew Gillis, the creator of TrixBox / Asterisk@Home and he will be giving a technical talk on TrixBox.

Some background on Andrew:

Andrew Gillis has been working with VoIP since VoIP became commercially viable in 1998. He was a Senior Systems Engineer at several VoIP startups including Octave Communications developing VOIP voicemail systems. He became an independent consultant, deploying worldwide roll-outs of VoIP PBX systems to companies such as Liberty Mutual.