Toronto Asterisk User Group

We've been working closely with IT360 again this year to bring in some great speakers. We're very excited to have Kevin Fleming and John Todd joining us from Digium, as well as Ethan Schroeder from Schmooze Communications.

As a member of TAUG (and all other AUG's), you are eligible for special rates:

• To attend the conference and receive a 25% discount use code: A107
• Special pricing for out of town visitors to the Asterisk Digium Open Telephony Conference at IT360. If you are traveling more then 100 km to attend, please contact steph@plumcom.ca for a special code to receive a 50% discount to attend
• To attend the trade show using a complimentary pass, use code: TS1 ($50 value)

In order to keep up with the latest features in the Asterisk 1.6.x branches, this presentation will delve into some useful features that are in, or soon to be merged, into Asterisk. We'll touch on five really cool features, such as iCal/Exchange/Zimbra calendar integration, XMPP (Jabber) integration, IMAP voicemail storage, usage of CURL, and ODBC integration (func_odbc & adaptive_cdr_odbc). The slides will include the configuration used during the demo portion of the presentation.

Leif Madsen is an Asterisk consultant with over 5 years of experience, and is a co-author of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, published by O'Reilly Media. Leif has built clustered solutions for ITSPs and call centres, and specializes in Asterisk database integration in these clustered systems. He is also the primary bug marshal and release manager of Asterisk.

Johannes Vanderknyff - Graduated with a degree in Horticultural Science from the University of Guelph, but has since worked for a variety of companies in the telecom industry including Motorola, Bell, and Rogers.

Always looking for simple solutions, he picked up a few technologies such as Asterisk and Ruby. Now, with Adhearsion, it has tied these two things together. You can now build web-based, database driven applications in minutes, get it connected to Asterisk, and build complex IVR applications simply.

The presentation will show how to use Ruby on Rails, Hobo, Adhearsion and Asterisk together. He will also demonstrate a phone testing application he made.