Two great VoIP conferences... same darn time... and 3,000 miles apart...
If you are attending either the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference January 24-26 in San Francisco or the TMC.net Internet Telephony show happening at the same time across the continent in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, we would definitely be interested in touching base.
Given that Mitel has others going to Internet Telephony, I'm heading out to SF to O'Reilly's ETel conference where, if schedules permit, Jonathan and I might actually connect and do that week's podcast face-to-face. I'm expecting to do some interviews at the show and perhaps record a couple of the security-related sessions. I expect to offer some of those recordings either as part of that week's podcast or perhaps as special edition podcasts. If you are attending the ETel conference and would like to be interviewed, please drop an e-mail so we can arrange a time. If you are going to the show and just want to connect and say hello (i.e. you don't want to do an interview), feel free to drop a note as well... I'm always up to meet folks who listen.
Across the continent, if folks are going to Internet Telephony, we'd love to have some "reports" about VoIP security-related announcements or sessions that happen at that conference. What are we looking for? Well, for instance:
- There are a couple of VoIP security-related conference sessions. If someone were to attend those sessions and send back a brief summary of their thoughts about the sessions, that would be welcome. Were the sessions worthwhile? Anything really interesting or new?
- The trade show floor will have some vendors offering products or services relating to VoIP security. If someone wanted to send back their thoughts around VoIP security offerings on the trade show floor... what's new and exciting? Any new security-related products/services that caught your eye?
That's the kind of information we are looking for. Basically anything newsworthy or interesting for listeners who can't make it to show. Think of it this way - if you couldn't attend the show, what would you like to hear about what was seen/discussed at the show?
Note: We'll see the news releases for announcements coming out of Internet Telephony, but what we can't do is push the buttons, play with the GUI, see the demo presentations or anything else that would help form an opinion. That's the kind of info that would be best: you saw the demo, poked at it - what do you think? Also note that we're not expect pure cheerleading... if you see something and you are not impressed, that opinion is welcome, too.
As far as format for sending in "reports", well, here would be my preference in order:
- audio file(s) sent in via e-mail (in any format)
- call into the comment line (1-206-338-6654) and leave a voicemail there (you could do this any number of times)
- drop me a note and I call you and record a conversation with you
- send in an e-mail report (which I'll read on the show)
Obviously since this is a podcast, audio is preferred, but e-mail is great, too. As far as time, whatever you want to do: a minute or two... or five or 10. Whatever. Keep in mind that if you call the comment line, I get an audio file which I can edit, and I've gotten real good at post-production, so I can edit out any things you don't want me to include (provided you tell me that) or drop out egregious "ums", etc.
Anyway, if you are attending either show and would be interested in either connecting or providing a report, please do send us an e-mail letting us know.
P.S. If someone really wants to go the extra mile and bring along a MP3 recorder to do actual interviews with vendors there at Internet Telephony, that would of course be welcome and we'd be glad to include them... but that's way more than we're asking for.
I will note that at approximately 22:10 I begin a very interesting 19-minute interview with Mark Collier, CTO of 
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