Telephony-Summit - Call for Papers
May 2nd, 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany
The Free Software/Open Source Telephony-Summit is a technical conference for developers and users of Free Software/Open Source telephony software and those who want to know more about what the Free Software/Open Source world has to offer in the telephony and VoIP sector.
For the first time the event will this year be held in association with LinuxTag, Europe's most important open source event. Participants of the conference on Tuesday, May 2nd 2006, can visit LinuxTag on the following days and/or book tutorials out of the LinuxTag tutorial program to deepen their knowledge.
We are looking for any presentations on software, projects, protocols and real-world experience related to the subject of telephony (be it on the Internet, and Intranet or in the plain old telephony system) using Open Source software.
Presentations are being solicited in areas including, but not limited to:
- Introduction and status reports of Open Source telephony projects
- VoIP (Voice over IP)
- Connection to and interoperability with POTS/ISDN services
- Interoperability between VoIP systems
- Security
- Experiences with Open Source telephony products in the enterprise
- ENUM services
- Voice chat systems, voice conferencing, voice mail, VoiceXML
- Voice and video integration
There will be two parallel tracks for most of the conference day. Presentations should be 20 minutes or 40 minutes in length including time for questions and answers.
This is an international conference, the conference language will be mostly English. You can submit proposals in English or German, but English is preferred.
All Proposals should be sent in no later than Monday, March 13th.
You are also encouraged to submit proposals for tutorials on the same subjects. One-day tutorials will be held on Wednesday, May 3rd in conjunction with other LinuxTag tutorials.
One speaker for each accepted paper or tutorial will receive a complimentary free pass to the conference and other LinuxTag events.
Please use the LinuxTag Conference Center to submit proposals. Create an account for yourself there, change the password and enter your personal information and proposal(s). Please use the category "Telefony-Summit".
The conference is preceeded by a three day workshop (April 29th to May 1st) for active developers of Free Software/Open Source Telephony-Software, which is by invitation only. Please contact us if you think you are eligible and interested in participating at this workshop.
Please contact ts2006@guug.de if you have any questions.