Welcome to the last week of July! The big news from last week was announced on the weekly conference call<https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_07_24>: FreeSWITCH 1.2.12 was officially released<http://www.freeswitch.org/node/458>. This is now the recommended production release of FreeSWITCH. We also had a simple FreeSWITCH programming how-to on using channel variables with examples from mod_valet_parking<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/changelog/freeswitch.git?cs=01d45ae506f50cdefa9ccfb9c5d08c3b5adbdfec>and mod_voicemail<http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/changelog/freeswitch.git/?cs=13de330> . On this week's conference call<https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_07_31>we are glad to have with us long-time FreeSWITCH community member and code contributor Chris Rienzo. Chris has lots of experience with handling media for various applications, such as you'd use with mod_unimrcp<https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_unimrcp>. This week Chris will be discussing the theme "mod_spandsp - it's not just for faxing!" Mod_spandsp <https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_spandsp>makes use of the powerful SpanDSP library <http://www.soft-switch.org/> and Chris will show us some of the interesting things that this makes available for FreeSWITCH users. For those of you coming to ClueCon 2013 <http://www.cluecon.com>: we'll see you next week! We are really looking forward to seeing everyone again. If you haven't registered for ClueCon or booked your room yet then we highly recommend that you do so right away. We hope to see you all at the can't-miss event of the season! Talk to you next week - from Chicago! -- Michael S Collins Twitter: @mercutioviz http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org