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It looks like our most recent Open Telephony Training Seminar at Digium’s Headquarters was a success beyond our wildest dreams! Digium was so impressed with FreePBX, our community (as represented by the class attendees), the great attitude of everyone (who else has participants set up camp with their RV in the Digium parking lot), and the project as a whole that they went off and created AstriskNOWTMwhile I was on the plane returning from Huntsville!
I must admit the announcement was not a complete surprise, having used our captive audience last week as a test bed for the new AsteriskNOW distribution which went very smoothly. If you are looking for a clean ISO with out a lot of extra fluff, this is an excellent option to consider. Although it is still in beta with a few minor known issues that are being addressed, I expect it to come out strong.
The most recent OTTS training was well received and our class was the first to get the revised material focusing on the great FreePBX 2.5 release that went final last month. We also heard much positive feedback about the quality time spent with Mark Spencer, Danny Windham and other Digium Asterisk developers during the week and over dinner. (And I didn’t hear any complaints from Tony who was kidnapped by Mark for a birds eye view of Huntsville in Mark’s Diamond DA40XLS!)
With their great training facility, the wonderful hospitality everyone received and the overall exceptional experience, how could we not plan on coming back soon. So if you couldn’t make it last week, here’s your next chance:
January 20th-23rd, 2009, again in Huntsville, AL
If you couldn’t attend this last opportunity or want to be one of the first to come to the next AsteriskNOW/FreePBX training, then sign up early while we are still offering an un-advertised EARLYBIRD discount of $300 until the end of this month.
For now, we hope to see you in Huntsville but it’s time to get back to work. One of our developers has done some nice improvements embedding the audio player into the User Portal (Recording Interface / ARI – no more pop-up!) so we are off to get that into a short lived release candidate for that component so we can get it out to you quickly. If you would like to help accelerate that activity, you can aways "press here":
Philippe – On Behalf of the FreePBX Team!