Atlanta Asterisk Users Group

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Remember we meet at 9:00AM, Saturday, April 18, 2009 at the Georgia Tech Klaus Advanced Computing building for the Third Annual Atlanta Asterisk Install Fest and Conference. Asterisk is now in prime time! This year’s emphasis is on putting Asterisk to work for you.

We will have a two track program. In the first lecture hall we will have the traditional Installation Fest activities. The installers will have the whole installation and configuration process on display on the lecture hall screen. In the other lecture hall we will have the Conference track with developer and vendor presentations.

Confirmed presenters and vendors include Sangoma, Digium, Pika, Snom, Aastra and NerdVittles with Ward Mundy and PBX in a Flash’s Tom King.

Please register for the event and pass along this announcement to anyone that you think may be interested.

As a part of our on-going discussions about VoIP server security, Allan Levene presented a paper titled Securing PBX in a FLASH. Click on the link for that paper. Thanks Allan!

Meeting:

February, 24th 6:45pm

Cbeyond Atlanta Sales Branch (old Wachovia building)
360 Interstate North Parkway SE
Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30339

Google MAP

Security locks the doors at 7pm, so get there early!

Future Meetings:

March 31st
April - INSTALL FEST & CONFERENCE - Saturday, April 18, 2009
May - TBA
June 30th

Third Annual Atlanta Asterisk Install Fest and Conference.

It’s official! We will meet at 9:00AM, Saturday, April 18, 2009 at the
Georgia Tech Klaus Advanced Computing building.
We will have a two track program with an introduction to Asterisk and
installs in one lecture hall and an advanced track with vendor
presentations in another.

SIGN UP ! it’s Free, as in Beer

We will be back at Cbeyond on the NorthWest side of Atlanta for this meeting. The conference bridge and shared desktop will be available for all. But we hope to see you there! See the posting below for conference bridge and map details.

It’s official! We will meet at 9:00AM, Saturday, April 18, 2009 at the Georgia Tech Klaus Advanced Computing building for the Third Annual Atlanta Asterisk Install Fest and Conference.

We will have a two track program with an introduction to Asterisk and installs in one lecture hall and an advanced track with vendor presentations in another.

Watch this space for more details.

Next meeting:

November, 25 6:45pm

Cbeyond Atlanta Sales Branch (the old Wachovia building)
360 Interstate North Parkway SE
Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30339

Google MAP

Security locks the doors at 7pm, so get there early!

Coming Soon in 2009

Future Meetings:

January 27th
February 24th
March 31st
April - INSTALL FEST & CONFERENCE

As a follow up to last nights discussion here are a few notes –

1.) Use good passwords !! Not the extension Number or 1234 or such. I would recommend at least 8 characters..
See — http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/ for generating them randomly. Remember this is the secret for the extension, not the VM.

2.) Regardless of the Distro use Fail2ban from http:///www.fail2ban.org

http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2379&page=3

3.) On Sip & IAX2 trunks use “deny=0.0.0.0/0″ and “permit=1.2.3.4/32″ as appropriate for additional level of security.
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page_id=666

4.) Tunnels are your friend.. OpenVPN, Hamachi, tunnels from Windows to your Firewall.
http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/linux_vpns.html

5.) Outbound Routes — If you have no need to call the Dial Routes should not get you there

Next Meeting Tuesday, October 28th 7pm

The Atlanta Asterisk User Group will meet at CBeyond’s Atlanta Sales office on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 (we are no longer homeless). The meeting will start at 7 pm, Eastern time.

We are planning a round table discussion on different ways to secure Asterisk based servers and CBeyond will spend a few minutes discussing their VOIP products.

We will have the conference bridge and the shared desktop available. You can access the conference bridge at:
1-404-492-8060
sip://2284@pbx.aretta.net
iax2://guest@pbx.aretta.net/2284 and ITAD
2284*455

CBeyond is located in Marietta, GA at:

360 Interstate North Parkway, SE
Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30339

Google Map

More information email: asterisk AT atlaug.com or call: 404-424-8266

Atlanta Asterisk User Group
http://atlaug.com

Ming Yong, the CEO of the Voiceroute Druid organization is glad to announce that DruidCON will be held on October 1st and 2nd, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a good follow-up to Astricon. DruidCON is the premier meeting for Druid community users and developers with interest in Unified Communications. DruidCON Atlanta 2008 attendees will include open source users of projects like Asterisk, OpenSER, professional Druid users and developers. Browse here for more information.

DruidCON topics will include: Druid as a UC 2.0 platform for web, mobile and desktop applications with a communications focus; previews of Druid UCS 5.0; breakthrough new release with complete LDAP backend for hot standby implementation of Asterisk systems and Deployment options for Druid including hosted & contact center type applications. You can view this video example of UC 2.0 - Mozilla Ubiquity and Druid to see this project’s capabilities

The cost of conference tickets including the DruidCON party and lunch is $50.00 for Early bird purchases (until September 20th) and after that the standard ticket price is $100.00.

Interested attendees can purchase conference tickets here. You can try your luck at winning 2 free DruidCON passes at this site.