A conference named Bob 2.0

Call for speakers :: Tutorials and conference talks

admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:32:21 +0000

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.

Realtime text gateways : ASTERISK!

oej — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:54:48 +0000

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.

Discover Asterisk 1.4 :: Jabber integration!

oej — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:59:33 +0000

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…)

Patrik Fältsröm, Senior Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems

oej — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:06:14 +0000

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.

Add Bob 2.0 to your Facebook account

admin — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:41:27 +0000

We’re experimenting with a Facebook plugin for this conference. Please test by testing this URL and logging in to your Facebook account.Other interesting IP Communication applications in Facebook are the apps created by FWDcomm, Rebtel and Iotum. Test them too!

Alan Duric, co-founder and CTP, Telio

oej — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:39:27 +0000

Alan Duric is co-founder and CTO at Telio ASA, the fastest growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider. Mr. Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP with over a 12 years of active contribution in VoIP, through his sw development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI and ITU standards).As a developer and senior systems architect at Ericsson, Mr. Duric took part in the early deployment and development of the world’s largest VoIP networks such as deltathree.At Global IP Sound (creators of Skype´s audio), Mr. Duric was Senior Systems Architect, where he steered standardization efforts and was responsible for iLBC (internet Low Bitrate Codec), an IETF and CableLabs standard codec for VoIP.Mr.Duric is also Co-founder of Sonorit/Camino networks and was Director of its Board of Directors from its inception (June 2005) until it was acquired by eBay/Skype (April 2006). Currently serves as Director of Sipfoundry.org BoD and is an Advisor at CounterPath´s, Xconnect´s and Kayote´s Board.

Who are you? Who am I?

oej — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:14:48 +0000

We’ve all been there. You remembered you created an account on xxxyyyzzz.com, but can’t remember the password or the account name. You search through your e-mail, but can’t remember who sent you that confirmation mail. And you have enough of them. That’s it. You’re note going to create yet another digital identity.

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Philippe Sultan, INRIA

oej — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:53:37 +0000

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Welcome to the Conference site!

admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:21:05 +0000

Check Conference facts to get basic information about the conference. Welcome! /oej

A conference named “Bob”…

oej — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:50:12 +0000

I’ve started to ask around and discuss this conference with friends and potential speakers. I get a lot of interest, and ideas - which is great. But one thing everyone wants to discuss is the name. “IP Communications Technology Summit” is an awful name. Too long, too complicated, too boring. Astricon, FosDEM, BSDcon - good names.What to do? Come up with a clever, brilliant, superior name? Well, that’s something we can do during the conference when we all meet. So I named this conference Bob - one of the participants in all realtime communication documented in RFCs. Bob calls Alice. Alice calls Bob.

So what happens if we don’t come up with a good name to next year? Well, we still have Alice around, don’t we?