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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 29 May '12

29 May '12

Happy Tuesday to all. We hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend. We've had a steady stream of presentations on the FreeSWITCH conference call over the past month. Ken Rice has graciously done two presentations on how to create a dialplan module in C, including a fully functional example module. This code is extremely helpful not just in understanding how to write a dialplan module but in writing any module that exposes new dialplan applications or command line APIs. This week we will take a break from the formal presentations and have an open discussion on any topics of interest to the community. Our ClueCon plans are gearing up as well. We are pleased to announce that Plivo, Inc. is a brand new silver sponsor for this year's event. Plivo<http://www.plivo.org?cc12-0529>is an open-source framework for developing Web-based solutions with FreeSWITCH. We are also happy to report that the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is again with us a media sponsor. IIT holds the annual Real-Time Communications conference and expo <http://www.rtc-conference.com?cc12-0529>where academia and industry meet to discuss various aspects of global telecommunications. We invite you to visit our sponsors' Web sites to learn more about what they have to offer. As a reminder, ClueCon still has openings for sponsors and speakers. Please contact us via email or at the phone number below if you have any questions. Visit the registration<http://www.cluecon.com/register?cc12-0529>page to get signed up and be sure to book your room at the Wyndham <http://www.cluecon.com/hotels?cc12-0529>. (And don't forget that the Wyndham will shortly be renamed to the Hyatt Chicago Miracle Mile.) We look forward to meeting everyone in person this August! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE cc12-0529

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH News and Notes
by Michael Collins 21 May '12

21 May '12

Monday, May 21, 2012 We're looking forward this week to a followup on a conversation that we began last Wednesday. After Fred Dixon gave a great demonstration of Big Blue Box <http://www.bigbluebutton.org?cc12-0521> we had our very own Ken Rice give an introduction to writing a simple dialplan module in C. This week Ken Rice will follow up on the discussion and answer any questions you may have. If you missed last week's discussion you can download the audio by clicking the "torrent" link on the past calls<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Weekly_Conference_Call#Past_Calls?cc12-0521>page. In ClueCon news we are happy to report that Norm Tomlins and Voice Network<http://www.voicenetwork.ca?cc12-0521>are back to sponsor us again in 2012. We look forward to seeing Norm again this August. We have also posted a number of presentations on this year's schedule <http://www.cluecon.com/schedule?cc12-0521>. More presentations are in the works, so stay tuned for further announcements. Visit the ClueCon site to register, or call us at 877.742.CLUE if you have any questions about speakers, sponsoring, or anything else related to the event. Only 77 days until ClueCon! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE cc12-0521

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[FreeSWITCH Community] FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 14 May '12

14 May '12

Greetings from the FreeSWITCH team. We hope your Monday is going well! This week we have an interesting topic in our community conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_05_16?cc12-0514>. We will be joined by Fred Dixon, lead developer of the Big Blue Button<http://www.bigbluebutton.org/>project. Big Blue Button is open software that enables distance learning and remote education. Fred will do a live demonstration of how it works as well as discussing how FreeSWITCH fits into the picture. We invite everyone to join us Wednesday to see this cool project in action. In ClueCon news, we are pleased to announce that we have two more sponsors: NACT <http://www.nact.com?cc12-0514>and HarQen <http://www.harqen.com?cc12-0514>. NACT uses FreeSWITCH in carrier class solutions, such as pre-paid and their commercial Vinci Class 4/5 softswitch. HarQen provides innovative voice-based solutions in their line of Intelligent Voice Services products.Their flagship offering is Voice Advantage, a tool that allows creation of custom recorded interviews. Managers and recruiters can quickly review these interviews, greatly speeding up the recruiting process. We look forward to seeing representatives from NACT and HarQen at ClueCon this August. As a reminder, our ClueCon PowerPlay is still in effect. Register one attendee by the end of May and you'll receive three entries in our great ClueCon prize giveaway. Register two attendees from the same company and they *each *will receive six entries. The more people from your company who register, the more entries each person receives. Visit the ClueCon site<http://www.cluecon.com?cc12-0514>or call us at 877-742-2583 if you have any questions about attending, sponsoring, or speaking at this year's event. See you this August! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE cc12-0514

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[FreeSWITCH Community] News and Notes: ClueCon Hotel Gets a New Name, FreeSWITCH Gets a New Feature
by Michael Collins 07 May '12

07 May '12

Happy new week to all! We have some interesting news items to share. First off, we are happy to report that the Wyndham Hotel, where ClueCon 2012 is being held, has a new owner and will become a Hyatt property. As part of the transition, the Wyndham will be renamed in June. The new name will be Hyatt Chicago Miracle Mile. The ownership transfer and name change will not affect ClueCon attendees, and the ClueCon website <http://www.cluecon.com/hotels?cc12-0507>will continue to have the latest hotel information. Please feel free to call the Wyndham and make your ClueCon hotel reservations at your earliest convenience. Also in ClueCon news we'd like to let everyone know that we have two new sponsors: Vitelity and OpenVox. We are pleased to welcome them both to this year's event. Each will be giving a technical presentation this year and we look forward to seeing them in person. Please visit our site<http://www.cluecon.com?cc12-0507>for registration information. FreeSWITCH received a new feature last week: a much-improved group pickup implementation. The new pickup dialplan<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_pickup?cc12-0507>application works in conjunction with the new "pickup" pseudo-channel. Together these allow for simple yet elegant call pickup features to be added to the dialplan. A number of FreeSWITCH community members are testing this new feature, and soon there will be an example added to the "Vanilla" dialplan. This Wednesday, May 9, we will be welcoming FreeSWITCH Community member Giovanni Maruzzelli to the community conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2012_05_09?cc12-0507>. He will be discussing how to implement a GSM channel in FreeSWITCH using mod_gsmopen and a GSM dongle. We invite everyone to join us this Wednesday at 1PM Eastern, 10AM Pacific (UTC 1700) for a very interesting discussion. Have a great week and we'll be in touch next Monday. -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team www.ClueCon.com <http://www.ClueCon.com?cc12-0507> 877-7-4ACLUE

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