Let Sangoma showcase your application! Simply tell them how you use Sangoma products in your application by Dec. 24, 2010. The grand prize winner will showcase the app on Sangoma’s Webinar Series. Four grand prize winners will be announced on Jan. 14, 2011.

How to Enter Complete the contest entry form:

 Wait for your free Sangoma gift. Check back on January 14, 2011 for the Grand Prize Winners to be announced (this could be you!)

 Hurry, and give yourself a gift from Sangoma. Please read contest terms and conditions here.

FREE gift for every entrant! Entrants will receive a free gift of Sangoma-branded paraphernalia.

Grand Prize: Win the chance to showcase your app on Sangoma’s Webinar Series! Four grand prize winners from each of these four regions will win on January 14, 2011:

North America

LATAM EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)

Asia-Pacific

Be sure to add ITEXPO conferences and Cluecon conference to your calendar to participate as sponsor and other ways. Sangoma already has. Meet them in person in Chicago. Meet Techistan and DIDX, who are Sangoma partners. Listen to a podcast interview with Sangoma CEO Mandelstam.

An interview between Suzanne Bowen, VP of DIDX and Techistan with Anthony Minessale II, lead developer and creator of freeSWITCH, an open source soft-switch and application media server!

Results?  A history of Cluecon, past, present and future. Readers can make plans to participate in Cluecon Aug. 3-5, 2010 at the Trump Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.

Suzanne Bowen: Remember our last talks were at Cluecon 2009 and then the DIDX podcast interview. So, would you compare the first Cluecon with the one scheduled for 2010 this year?

Anthony Minessale II: There is a drastic difference between the first ClueCon and ClueCon MMX (2010). The first ClueCon was in an obscure hotel near one of the airports very far from downtown. There were several people in attendance who were intrigued by the idea of an open source developers’ conference. There was no FreeSWITCH at that time. It was only an idea brewing in my head. One major difference is that it’s the only time Mark Spencer attended, giving a presentation on Asterisk. Today, after 5 years of ClueCon, we are in downtown Chicago (have been since 2006) and this year we are at the luxurious Trump Hotel and we expect the biggest and best ClueCon ever!

Suzanne Bowen: John Todd of Digium gave an interesting presentation about the job outlook for open source developers. I liked how he used Craigslist to hire graphics artists for his PPT. I attended the 2007 and 2009 Cluecon conferences and have some great memories like West in pajamas and his big, friendly smile and leadership, the announcement of Barracuda Networks investment, the hot but friendly debates in Q&A sessions that I have recorded on Youtube, playing basketball with everyone, meeting a BBC correspondent, learning from Kamailio, openSIPs, freeSWITCH, Opal, Asterisk and other open source developers and entrepreneurs. Would you share a hilarious story about a past Cluecon, Anthony?

Anthony Minessale II: In 2008, we had a night where after the presentation we had beer and pizza in the conference hall. At 8pm they told us we had to clear the room for the night and we were stuck with 2 half-barrels on a luggage cart. With nowhere else to turn, we went to someone’s room where we hung out and played some instruments. The next day we realized it was on Youtube.

We still carry the tradition to this day to bring instruments to the conference for the night time.

Suzanne Bowen: I play the piano, Anthony. Can I bring it this year? I remember you guys taking us in 2007 to the DIDX-sponsored Cluecon party in a limousine, about 20 of us. The parties are just as creative and memorable as the conference itself. So, share a story about one of the best business developments from a Cluecon conference.

Anthony Minessale II: The number one best business development we have ever had from ClueCon is our relationship with Sangoma Technologies. They have been a proud sponsor of the conference every single year since the first. This year they will be announcing their commitment to the FreeSWITCH project by adopting the maintenance of our TDM abstraction layer FreeTDM (formerly OpenZAP) We are happy to have them in attendance and we can’t wait to see our friends!

Suzanne Bowen: Sangoma is wonderful. I met their CEO David Mandelstam last year at CommunicAsia. We spent a lot of time brainstorming business development ideas and ways to better enable more of the IP communications industry to Sangoma, DIDX and open source telephony applications like freeSWITCH. Give us a tiny blurb, plug-in about voip phone numbers and how DIDX just might happen to be a good service to jumpstart and grow one’s freeSWITCH or other open source telephony application and IP communications consulting and business. What do you think? I don’t mind some suggestions and critique, too.

Anthony Minessale II: FreeSWITCH lends itself well to services like DIDX. With a simple configuration tweak, calls can be routed in and out of FreeSWITCH instances all over the world allowing anyone to gateway the PSTN into VoIP space and to many FreeSWITCH services like conferencing , voicemail etc.

Suzanne Bowen: Let me tell you. Many DIDXchange members, readers of our media channels like the TMCnet DID/DDI channel, our blogs, and our new online magazine Techistan can’t wait to get together with you guys. Tell the venue, date, place, and how to sign up to sponsor, present, and participate in any way again please.

Anthony Minessale II: ClueCon will be held at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, IL +1 (312) 588-8000. The Trump is located at 401 N. Wabash Avenue Chicago, IL 60611. When contacting the hotel to book rooms, please call +1 877-45-TRUMP (87867) and refer to booking number 4347 (FreeSWITCH Solutions or ClueCon).

We are giving away some great prizes including 2 Ipads and a MacBook PRO engraved with the attached image.

Sponsors and anyone interested in attending can contact us at 1.877.742.CLUE (+18777423583) or on the web at http://www.cluecon.com/ or http://www.cluecon.com/sponsor.

Be among the movers and shakers in open source telephony as Cluecon sponsors and partners:

Sponsors – FreeSWITCH Solutions, Sangoma, CudaTel, bandwidth.com, iCall, broadvox, tropo, *#StarPound, Illinois Institute of Technology VoIP Conference & Expo, Voip88, Voip Providers List, TMCNet, VoipSupply, meraki, Voip-info.org, polycom, Modern Tailor, BayScribe, Dialogic, Paetec, NACT, VoipX, WCGS, DIDXchange, and Voice Networking.

Have you heard of Asterisk? Mark Spencer? (Wish him happy birthday on April 8.)  Digium? They and the world of developers and entrepreneurs leveraging Asterisk are responsible for millions of small businesses and other organizations, students, families, friends and other types of consumers to be able to make and receive calls over the Internet. Asterisk is an open source telephony switching and private branch exchange service. In other words, it is a protocol that lets people and organizations to talk to each other over the Internet inexpensively and with feature-rich flexibility. It is the reason that many loved ones talk more on the “phone” today. More business is developed among companies. More parents stay in touch with their children (students, ex-pats, and more). Check out AsterConference, a conference where you can learn about this technology.

AsterConference is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 18-19, 2010 where the brightest  minds in the global Asterisk community    will  converge. The speaker line-up is sharp:   Dr. Daniel Ali Aman Kranhenbuhl of Intuit Innovations; Reza Mosaddeque of Toronto,   Canada; Mark Spencer, Greg Vance, and David Duffet of Digium; Anton Raharja, author   of VoIP Cookbook: Building Your Own Telecommunication Infrastructure,   and Doug Vilim of Sangoma Technologies. Sponsors and media partners are a world-  renowned collection: Digium, JCMEX VoIP Distribution, Sangoma,  Polycom, intuit,   OpenVox, Xorcom, Chinese Elastix Community, DIDXchange, and briker. Sign up your   company as sponsor, too, at AsterConference website.

Sign up at http://www.asterconference.com to sponsor or participate in any way. Be a part of the pre, during and post networking areas on Facebook and Linkedin, too.

Call your Sangoma expert at VoIP Supply today and save big on shipping charges!
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Sangoma’s unmatched voice optimized hardware is well-known in the Open Source PBX market. In fact, they raised the bar in TDM voice communications with on-board, Telco-grade, hardware echo canceller DSPs available on all Sangoma voice cards and the most optimized, scalable, cross-platform device drivers available.
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Call a VoIP Supply sales representative at 800.398.8647 for more information re: Sangoma products including free ground shipping between 6/23/2009 and 6/29/2009! Products this applies to are on VoIPSupply website.

Sangoma and VoIP Supply are DIDX partners. We’ll be adding our video interview here with David Mandelstam, President of Sangoma, in the press lounge of CommunicAsia in Singapore as soon my business partner Rehan Allahwala sends me the 30+ videos and 100+ photos I took while in Singapore. If you see Rehan, remind him to send them to me. Desperate here.