{ Thank you to our sponsors for a successful Atlanta Developer Conference }
From May 22-25 in Atlanta, Georgia, a group of Asterisk developers will be getting together for four days of hacking, coding, testing, designing and otherwise beating on the Asterisk code base. The event will be hosted at Georgia Tech (thanks to the Georgia Tech Information Security Center), and will be low-key and open only to serious developers and contributors. We are expecting to keep the attendance to 50 people or less, including the entire Digium Asterisk development team (currently around 10 people).
If you wish to participate, please contact Kevin P. Fleming so he can make arrangements with you. We will need to have the final list of attendees in place by March 15th or so, so that hotel accommodations can be scheduled. We will be staying on campus at the Georgia Tech hotel, which is within walking distance of the conference facility. There is also a free shuttle service to/from the nearby MARTA station, which will make access from the airport and to downtown fairly easy for everyone.
Each attendee will be responsible for their own travel and lodging costs; the conference sessions will include breakfast, lunch and beverages, so attendees will also be responsible for their own dinner arrangements. We will also provide wireless Internet access at both the conference facility and the hotel for each participant.
This year we plan to focus our efforts on two major areas of Asterisk: security (in all its forms) and unified communications (adding video, text and other forms of messaging to Asterisk's existing support for audio). We are also planning to invite key developers from other open source projects to attend the event and work with us on interoperability with their projects; as we get confirmations that they will attend we will announce them so that other interested developers can also apply to attend.
If you are interested in attending, send an email application to kpfleming@digium.com including your name, your involvement with Asterisk (or related projects), and who is sponsoring your attendance (if any company or person is doing so). We will accept applications until March 15th, and then make the decisions about who we can accept based on their level of contribution and the space available at the event.
Accommodations
Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center
800 Spring Street N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30308
Tel: (404)347-9440 main hotel number
Tel: (404)838-2100 reservations
Tel: 800-706-BUZZ (2899) reservations
fax: (404)838-2099
Group rate:$169.00 per night plus tax (currently 15%)
Please note the following:- Reservations must be made on or before April 20th.
- Rooms will be charged to individual credit cards.
- Parking is $10.00 per day if you park your vehicle all day. $15.00 per day if you need in/out access to vehicle all day.
- Traveller can call hotel directly and make reservation by referring to the Digium group rate.
- Block of rooms reserved from Monday, May 21st to Friday, May 26th. If anyone wants to stay longer or arrive earlier, they can check with the hotel for the available rate. We have a total number of 30 rooms blocked including the ones that Digium will be utilizing. Rooms have two beds.
- Asterisk Team