Hello all!<br><br>I wanted to start off by giving you all some good news: Our friends at <a href="http://www.newegg.com" target="_blank">Newegg</a>
have successfully slain a Patent Troll named Soverain. This NPE
(non-producing entity) acquired some questionable patents and started
suing just about anybody with an online shopping cart on their website.
To make a long story short: Newegg fought them in court instead of
settling and in the process got all three patents invalidated! More
details available at the <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/" target="_blank">Ars Technica article</a>.
In any event, those of us who do software for a living, especially in
the US, are well aware of the dangerous patent situation we have. Hattip
to Newegg for doing us all a favor.<br>
<br>More good news! We have released a few more ClueCon 2012 videos:<br>* <a href="http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/open-source-revamping-telecom-you-want-learn-our-wins-and-misses/" target="_blank">Open Source is revamping telecom. You want in. Learn from our wins and misses.</a> - Darren Schreiber<br>
* <a href="http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/homer-cloud/" target="_blank">HOMER in the cloud.</a> - Alexandr Dubovikov<br>* <a href="http://www.cluecon.com/presentation/ostag-who-what-why/" target="_blank">OSTAG - Who we are, what we do, and why.</a> - Raymond Chandler<br>
<br>I will be uploading the slides for the talks shortly.<br><br>In
other ClueCon news we are gearing up for the 2013 event. We look forward
to hearing from prospective speakers, sponsors, and attendees. As a
reminder, we are at the same <a href="http://www.cluecon.com/hotels/" target="_blank">hotel</a> this year and the event runs from August 6th through the 8th. Stay tuned for more information.<br>
<br>We have an annual tradition that is coming up next week: buy the
developers dinner! Quite simply, we invite the community to throw some
money into the hat and then the developers use it to buy dinner. The
easiest way to donate is to click the Donate button on the main <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">FreeSWITCH website</a>.
(Right-hand side, under the ClueCon 2013 logo.) Do a Paypal
transaction, mark it person (a gift is fine) and in the message to the
recipient mention that the money is for the developer dinner. We
appreciate the community doing this again for us this year. Thank you!<br>
<br>We'll talk to you this Wednesday on our <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_30">weekly conference call</a>. Last
week was an <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_01_23">open discussion</a>. This week I would will be doing an event
socket and ESL review. More people are using these great tools and we
are seeing some of the same questions being asked so we want to make
sure that we get this information out there for everyone to use.<br>
<br>Thanks again for being a great community and we will talk to you again next week.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michael S Collins<div>ClueCon Team<br><div><a href="http://www.cluecon.com" target="_blank">http://www.cluecon.com</a></div>
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