Miscellaneous
Fred’s Astricon Presentation
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The question: When should you use Kamailio?
I love Astricon — absolutely look forward to attending the conference each and every year. For the last several years, I’ve been honored to speak at the conference and my presentation from this year has just been posted to YouTube.
Continue Reading »Any day now…
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Been a fun Summer and early Fall, and although our trip to Europe should have included alcohol, we made the best of it.
Yes, we’re both a little bigger than when we made the announcement, but as the due date rapidly nears… we remain excited for what shall come.
Continue Reading »Get Ready for Astricon 2018
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This October, smart people throughout the globe will gather in Orlando, Florida —not for Disney World, Universal, or Sea World… but rather something much more exciting… open source telecom.
Continue Reading »Just the way you are…
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Mr. Rogers ended his shows with a great message.
Continue Reading »My Way
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Paul Anka wrote the words… but once Frank sang it, he owned it forever… although the Sid Vicious version is pretty amazing.
Ain’t nothing wrong with Waffle House
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I love Waffle House. Not as much as my friend Patrick, but love it nonetheless.
For those not in know, Waffle House is a 24/7 restaurant chain with more than 2,000 locations across the US. Very popular in the South, Chances are if you’re driving on a highway in the South/Midwest/”lower” East, you’ll see their yellow/black signs from the highway.
Continue Reading »Going back to Berlin
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In just a couple weeks, the Mrs. and I will be headed back to Berlin for Kamailio World. Last year, we visited for the first time and Berlin truly made an amazing impression.
Continue Reading »My Thoughts on Enterprise Connect
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This year I decided to head down to Orlando and catch the Enterprise Connect show. Usually, the VoIP shows I attend deal with open source products and target Developers (as well as users, purchasers, etc). Enterprise Connect mostly highlights non-open source telephony offerings from such companies as Cisco, Slack, Microsoft, Avaya, etc.
After a few days here in beautiful Orlando, I still am not sure who Enterprise Connect had in mind for a target audience. Did they want those with technical skills? Not sure– none of the talks really went into anything technical. Decision makers? Influencers? No idea.
Continue Reading »2017 in Review
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TL/DR; — Even older, even fatter, longer goatee.
Last year, Yeni and I crossed some items off her bucket list; most importantly visiting Castle Neuschwanstein and making it to Europe. I was able to attend a Kamailio World which exceeded all of by greatest expectations (I’ve already blocked out 2018).
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