On September 26-28 in Glendale, Arizona, a group of Asterisk developers will be getting together for three days of hacking, coding, testing, designing and otherwise beating on the Asterisk code base. The event will be hosted at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa immediately following AstriCon 2008 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 many members of the Digium Asterisk development team (currently around 15 people).

Each attendee will be responsible for their own travel, meals and lodging costs; the conference sessions will only have a beverage bar and light snacks. There will be free wireless Internet access in the meeting room and in the guest rooms at the Renaissance.

What is AstriCon?

Have you caught the Asterisk fever? Would you like to know what the newest rage is with Asterisk? Or the hottest business application? Then AstriCon is the place you need to be! AstriCon is the official conference for the wildly popular Asterisk PBX and telephony platform. The conference includes a wealth of information whether you are getting started with Asterisk or have already discovered the power. AstriCon is also the meeting place for the Asterisk community - a diverse group of users, developers, entrepreneurs and other fans.

When and where?

Renaissance Glendale Hotel & Spa
Glendale, Arizona — USA
Booth #300
Registration website: www.astricon.net

AsteriskNow GUI lowers barriers to entry and eases the transition from testing to deployment.

"Digium's AsteriskNow marks a major step in the development of the Asterisk open-source project: The newest distribution integrates central voice over IP PBX features with an easy-to-manage operating system environment and offers simple ways for companies to transition Asterisk from testing to deployment."

This article is published on eWeek. Read the complete article.

Fast Deployment, Easy Configuration and Use Stimulate More than 2,000 Downloads a Day of AsteriskNOW Beta.

New AsteriskNOW beta 5 features, as well as extensive product testing and feedback from the Asterisk community, make this the final beta leading up to Q2 availability of AsteriskNOW 1.0. Customers can deploy AsteriskNOW in minutes to start using Asterisk, the most popular open source telephone system in the world, in their organizations.

The software will be available beginning on Friday, March 23.

AsteriskNOW was voted the Best of Show for "Most Innovative Product" in January at the the Internet Telephony East Conference and Expo that was held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Read the release and view a list of winners.