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