Previously mentioned... I volunteered to do a presentation on Open Telephony solutions and was asked to do a telephony lab for the
fest. When I arrived to set up for presentation I found a nice room with a podium and the projector on and ready. I set up and soon the room was standing room only. I managed to stretch a 20 minutes of material in 90 minutes of what had to be one of my best presentations to date. I hope someone shares a photo so I can share it here.
Overall I felt good about taking the time to prepare for and give a presentation about a topic I am passionate about. As a volunteer I also felt good that the organizers did a good job of advertising and attracting people to the event.
I just wish the part I was asked to perform went as well. It could be that the distinction between "volunteer" and "requested of" is important here. At any rate, my response to the request for a small lab was room to project and place for four to six handsets....
I showed up to find that no one had any knowledge of this "telephony lab." Nice... I readied a completely portable iPBX and procured handsets and such. So, after a period of time it looked like there was some no shows for the exhibit floor and "the guy" pointed at a table and said here take that one. I started to say I needed an Ethernet drop when "the guy" interrupted me to blurt that "he knew what I needed." Mind reading with a touch of politeness... Cool...
Actually, it was a bit surreal. Ah, but Jacob Perry did manage to photograph my "bad booth."
"Too bad" is probably more like it. As an SMB lab set up it could have been a contender. As a booth... not so much. I had to get creative. It wasn't too long before someone noticed that I didn't appear very linuxy. I hit the bar and all they saw was the Asterisk CLI..
Actually, there is a side shot in the top photo.
Dateline Las Vegas... We are now in day 2 ( actually day 1 as we had a day 0 for new Asterisk users ) and things are moving along very smoothly. On day zero the basics of FreePBX and the Linux CLI were discussed and we helped all attendees get their VM sessions ready for the Labs. We didn't do labs during the last training , however... we are doing them this time. So far, so good.
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