:: Final Call for the International Developer Challenge A1 InnovationDays ::

Since almost 4 weeks, the international developer challenge A1 InnovationDays attracted more than 30 ideas from creative minds. The challenge is open to anyone who addresses the grand theme “Open Communication by Open Standards” and can come up with ideas for cool services built on IP-based communication (SIP & IMS).

Ideas can be posted on the platform

www.a1innovations.at/en/static/a1innovationdays until August 15, 2008.

All entries are open for voting and discussing by all users. On August 15, the 10 highest ranked ideas will be short-listed and judged by a panel of recognized experts as well as representatives from the sponsors. End of August, the best teams behind the ideas will be invited to a prototyping event near Vienna in order to realize their ideas and demonstrate their potential. The winning team can choose among several awards, such as a week of powder snow skiing in Austria. After that, the sponsor (mobikom Austria) is keen to bring your idea to the market.

All submissions must be based on Open Source Software.

: More Information :

For all details about this challenge, go to the FAQs:

http://www.a1innovations.at/en/static/faq

For registration, go directly to: http://www.a1innovations.at/registrierung

: Important dates ahead :

August 1, 2008: Two prizes for the best interim ideas will be awarded

August 15, 2008: End of idea entries (CET 24:00)

August 18, 2008: Announcement of the five selected teams for the prototyping event

August 29 – September 1, 2008: Prototyping event at the monastery Und

(near Vienna: http://www.und.at/)

Consequently, we have been forced to find a new name for the project that stands on itself and represent the project in its future expression.

http://www.kamailio.net

INRIA, French National Research Network in Computer Science is hosting an workshop dedicated to SIP/SIMPLE-XMPP Interoperability. The event aims to bring together people with large expertise in both protocols, interested in development, testing and deployment of SIP/SIMPLE-XMPP solutions.

ASIPTO is part of the organizing team, Daniel-Constantin Mierla leading also the XMPP interoperability development for OPENSER.

The workshop takes place between September 2 and 5, 2008, in Paris, France.

Read more details here…

Just about two months and a half since eLearning channel for OPENSER configuration file was launched, a broad number of topics were approached:

• introduction of configuration file structure
• overview of SIP message execution flow
• complete walk-through default configuration file
• debug options
• main routing blocks elements
• all about assignment operations, tips and tricks
• configuration file flags: per transaction, branch and script
• r-uri management – best options and available alternatives to handle the request URI
• config file statements: if, switch and while

Each document includes many examples to make easier the understanding of concepts and real word usage. With a rate of introducing couple documents and topics per week, the knowledge base of the channel is growing rapidly.

The eLearning channel offers full range of collaborative tools: forum, wiki, chat rooms, document uploading, allowing open discussions and easy interaction within the groups.

You can register now for OPENSER configuration file eLearning channel here.

See more details about eLearning programs here.

The Open Source week in Berlin has ended. During May 26 – 31, AsteriskTag and LinuxTag events took place at ICC/Messe Berlin.

I must say the AsteriskTag was a high quality event, with presentations from Nenad Corbic of Sangoma, Mark Spencer of Asterisk/Digium, Kevin Fleming of Astrerisk/Digium, Diana Cionoiu of Yate/NullTeam, Daniel-Constantin Mierla of OPENSER/ASIPTO.com, Olle E. Johansson of Asterisk/Edvina.net. Jay Phillips of Adhearsion, Phil Zimmermann of PGP/Zphone, plus many others. See more details at:

http://www.asterisk-tag.org/

I collected some photos and created an album:

http://www.asipto.com/photos/AsteriskTag2008-ALBUM/

ASIPTO’s presentation focused on scalability – how OPENSER can help you scale ASTERISK-based deployments. You can find the slides at:

http://www.asipto.com/pub/AsteriskTag2008/asterisk_and_openser.pdf

From 28th of May was the LinuxTag exhibition and conference. I visited the first two days. The event was larger than last year, with same big share of Linux or BSD based distributions, good representation of Sun with OpenSolaris, booth for OpenOffice.org, Oracle brought their Linux operating system.

ASIPTO, Daniel-Constantin Mierla and Elena-Ramona Modroiu will present two sessions at Asterisk Tag Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 26-27, 2008.

The Asterisk Tag Conference gathers an important group of VoIP personalities, including Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk and founder of Digium, Kevin P. Fleming of Asterisk/Digium, Olle E. Johansson of Asterisk/Edvina, Jay Phillips of Adhearsion, Phil Zimmermann of PGP, Nenad Corbic of Sangoma.

The event hosts two presentations related to OPENSER. In the first day, starting with 4:00pm, will be Asterisk and OpenSER – blending together for scalability. The main focus will be how to plug OPENSER to scales Asterisk-based services.

The next day will be a two hours workshop dedicated to OPENSER. The target is to reveal where OPENSER fits in IP communication services, Voice over IP and beyond, and to give the starting point to use it.

After this event follows the Linux Tag Conference, in the same city. If you want to meet us in Berlin, please contact us at:

http://www.asipto.com/index.php/contact-us/

ASIPTO and SIPWISE are organizing OPENSER Social Networking Event in Vienna, Austria, May 24, 2008, 19:30 at Plutzer Brau:

http://www.plutzerbraeu.at/plutzerbraeu.html

Among the participants that confirmed the presence:

- Elena-Ramona Modroiu, co-founder OpenSER, http://www.asipto.com
– Andreas Granig, developer OpenSER, http://www.sipwise.com
– Daniel-Constantin Mierla, co-founder OpenSER, http://www.asipto.com

The primary goal of the event is to strengthen the relations within community and give opportunity to network for collaboration and business. Participation to any of these events is free, everybody pays for its expenses. Anyone interested in OpenSER, SIP or VoIP in general is welcome to join. Contact us to reserve your seat:

http://www.asipto.com/index.php/contact-us/

The event organized by ASIPTO and Voztelecom on the 6th of May gathered about 20 people from the Spanish VoIP community working with OPENSER and Asterisk.

Wine, beer, food and atmosphere were delighting, as usual in Spain. A nice opportunity to meet for first time people we know from the OPENSER project community like Inaki Baz Castillo, Alberto Sagredo, Victor Pascual Avilla, Pascual Maugeri, but also old friends Jesus, Gines, Elias. Asterisk project was strongly represented by Olle E. Johansson, Nacho Cabrera and Sergio Serrano.

Some other details at:

http://openser.blogspot.com

Photos at:

http://www.asipto.com/photos/BARCELONA2008-ALBUM/

The eLearning channel for OPENSER Configuration File has started, Apr 28, 2008.

The target of the course is to:

- present the structure of the OpenSER configuration file

- guideline the design and implementation of a configuration file

- reveal insights of OpenSER that boost the performances by just using in the right sequence the statements in the configuration file

- provide tips and tricks you can use in a configuration file

- configuration file maintenance and upgrade

- how to upgrade to new versions and still be able to roll back quickly if something goes wrong

From a technical point of view, the course will approach topics of how you should design the configuration file and use properly components such as:

• global parameters
• module settings
• routing blocks
• decisional statements
• core functions
• keywords
• variables
• transformations
• config file flags

The course begins with the introduction of OPENSER, the architecture behind the configuration file, gradually going into complex aspects of SIP routing.

First week documents:

- SIP and VoIP Introduction

- About OPENSER in One Page

- OPENSER Quick Intro

- Config File Quick Intro 1

- OPENSER Step by Step Install Guide

For registration or more details, please contact us at:

http://www.asipto.com/index.php/contact-us/

OPENSER Social Networking Event in Barcelona, Spain, May 6, 2008, 9:00PM at “Braseria El Glop”.

http://www.elglop.com/

The primary goal of the meeting is to strengthen the relations within community and give opportunity to network for collaboration and business. Participation to any of these events is free, everybody pays for its expenses. Anyone interested in openser, sip or voip in general is welcome to join.

So far, about 10 persons have confirmed the presence:

- Danie-Constantin Mierla, co-founder OPENSER, http://www.asipto.com
– Olle E. Johansson, main Asterisk SIP developer, http://www.edvina.net
– Elena-Ramona Modroiu, co-founder OpenSER, http://www.asipto.com
– Jesus Rodriguez, developer OpenSER — FreeBSD packages maintainer, http://www.voztele.com
– Inaki Baz Castillo – OpenSER mailing list activist, VoIP consultant
- several other openser, wesip (http://www.wesip.com) and asterisk folks

If you need more details about location, Jesus Rodriguez can assist in English and Spanish. If you didn’t confirm yet, please write us before the end of this week if you plan to come and want to be sure a seat is reserved for you. Use the contact form:

http://www.asipto.com/index.php/contact-us/