AstriCon 2009, Glendale, AZ – Spoiler

Ok, now that it’s official I can release a small spoiler regarding AstriCon 2009, to be held at Glendale Arizona – this coming October.

On the 13th of October, during the pre-conference events I’ll be teaching a full day class of Amazon EC2 and Asterisk integration. The purpose of the day class (a 6 hour class to be more exact) is to enable the participants to get up and running with Amazon EC2 and Asterisk in an easy manner.

As you may have read my previous post, called asterisk-and-amazon-ec2-video-presentation, the Cloud Computing market had been increasingly evolving in the past 12 months. While many companies tend to throw the cloud computing buzz word around, the implementaion of Asterisk and telecom applications in a clouded environment, especially one as Amazone EC2, requires a new set of skills to be learned – technical on one hand and financial/economical on the other hand.

Currently, the actual schedule of the class is still being formed, however this is currently what I’m working on:

• An introduction to Amazon EC2 – What it is, what it is not and why is it good for Asterisk?
• An introduction to Amazon EC2 Economics – Dispersing some of the myths about EC2 economics
• Utilizing Elasticfox and the AWS Console
• Using the voxilla Asterisk AMI image
• Building your own customized Asterisk AMI image

My intention is to bring printed booklets to the presentation, so if you intend on attending the day class – just leave me a message here so I can bring you a copy.