A conference named Bob 2.0

The BOB 2.0 schedule is going to be completed within a few weeks. We are now looking for speakers in various areas

• Open Source Projects
• Application examples
• Social Network integration
• Integration with geolocation systems (GPS, Maps)
• Visions about the new platform
• Standards
• Development

Tutorials are 2 hours on one topic, for a small group, focused and in some cases hands-on. Conference talks are for the whole group of Bob 2.0 attendees in the large conference hall or on the tracks on the friday sessions.

When sending a proposal, please include

• Photograph of the speaker (jpeg, gif, png)
• Title of the session
• A short description
• A longer description with bullets for tutorials
• Contact details and bio of the speaker

Send proposals to oej@edvina.net - which is also the address to use if you have questions.

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In the stream of updated drafts for the IETF meeting in December, I found a draft named Real-time text interworking between PSTN and IP networks.This is work-in-progress in Asterisk svn trunk. We already have support for T.140 realtime text in the SIP channel, and support for US TDD phones in the Zap/PSTN channel driver. During this summer, I’ve assisted a developer who implemented a RTT gateway in Asterisk, so you could call with an old PSTN TDD phone and have a conversation with a modern SIP client with support for realtime text.This code will soon be implemented in Asterisk svn trunk, so Asterisk will become the reference implementation for this draft. How many xOIP acronyms do we have now? FOIP, VOIP, TOIP? I surely missed a few there…

Regardless of acronym. Supporting real-time text is important. We want Asterisk to mean “communication for everyone”.

From the abstract:

IP networks can support real-time text communication. SIP-based real- time text is called Text-over-IP or ToIP. PSTN networks support real-time text using textphones (or TTYs). When real-timetext is supported by different networks, gateways are needed to provide interoperability. Real-time text capable gateways may also support real-time voice.This specification describes procedures for interworking between ToIP and PSTN textphones using a real-time text capable gateway (RTT gateway). It also describes ways to route calls to RTT gateways for several call scenarios. Procedures that support the phased introduction of RTT gateways and procedures that support the invocation of text channels at any time during the call are included. Interworking of PSTN text phones thatdo not support simultaneity of voice and text with IP User Agents that support simultaneous voice and text is also described.

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Asterisk 1.4 introduces a new level of Jabber integration, developed by Matthew O’Gorman at Digium. The Asterisk Open Source PBX integrates with Jabber/XMPP in many ways. (more…)

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Patrik Fältström is currently a Senior Consulting Engineer with Cisco Systems in the team Strategic Alliances. At Cisco, Mr. Fältström is involved with many things touching the domain name system. Previously, Fältström was a technical specialist in the Internet Strategies and Coordination group at Tele2, systems manager at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, researcher at Bunyip Information Systems in Montreal and a programmer in the Swedish Royal Navy. He has been working with UNIX since 1985, and been involved in Internet-related standardization since 1989, both in Sweden and worldwide.

Fältström is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), was one of two area directors of the applications area for five years, followed by being a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and advisor to the Swedish Government as a member of the IT Policy and Strategy Group 2003-2006. He is a member of ISOC Board of Trustees and the Internet Governance Forum Advisory Group, and was reappointed an advisor to the Swedish Government July 2007. He is or has been a member of numerous other advisory groups and investigations related to Internet during the years, both public and private sector including ICANN, Packet Clearing House, Telio, HotSIP, Swedish Government and the European Comission. Fältström holds an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Stockholm.

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