In the Toronto Asterisk Users Group, we have always felt that our area of interest is really anything that has to do with Open Source Telecom.

In this spirit, we invited Mike Jerris of the FreeSwitch project to speak to us about this new technology.

I am looking forward to it.

My daughter was horrified to hear that when I was a kid, we didn’t even know what a gigabyte was.

“What did you used to do all day?”

“Well, we didn’t know any better, so we didn’t know what we were missing”

The look of pity she gave me was heartbreaking.

I am looking forward to ClueCon in a few weeks. They always have a good mix of smart people there, and they’re not afraid to take of the gloves and say what they’re really thinking.

If you are into open source telecom development, you need to be at ClueCon.

I’ve been keeping a half an eye on the FreeSwitch project since it started, and a big change I have noticed in the last few weeks is that activity on the mailing list has really begun to heat up.

It should be interesting to see what sorts of things people are doing with this new bit of open source telephony software.

FreeSwitch is something to keep an eye on.